Bubble 2.0
September 26th, 2006
Maybe it's just me getting old, but I feel like it's 1999 again:
- "One number... for life": I've once had a tomk@iname.com address too, for the same reasons: "one email address for life!" Until bubble 1.0 burst.
- Businesses that haven't made money (yet) get taken over for billions of dollars.
- Job vacancy boards are smoking from the traffic they're handling.
- Colleagues get cell phone calls all the time, answering in a muttered voice "no, I can't speak right now". Recruiters should call after business hours (but not during dinner, of course)
- Newspapers are spreading the news that "it vacancies don't get filled"
April 21st, 2008 at 10:19 PM Fun fact: the top left job on javajobs.be's homepage is a .NET job Apart from that, I don't think there will be a 2001 again.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:19 PM [...] Voor de mensen die er nog aan zouden twijfelen dat we hoogconjunctuur beleven: vanmorgen kreeg ik van een bevallige jongedame in het station van Berchem een boekje in mijn handen geduwd. Na de eerste “ik moet uw spam niet”-reactie, zag ik dat het de aartsvijand van Vacature.com was die nu ook in magazinevorm te krijgen is: JobAt Direct! [...]