Starting new job tomorrow

Got the offer last week, and starting tomorrow on Monday, finally after two months long march in the tough economy. Cheers!

30/08/2009

September Coming

Just noticed next week will be September already! A bit shock at the first stage, I still remember that I decided to come back to the working 9-5 world in late June, then the whole July and August, no good so far. September - so what? no great hope, but probably another month playing the interview games.  Anyway, need to rethink my strategy, my plans also my family. Good luck September again.

Proactive and Communication!

Proactive Proactive, Communication Communication! 

In the current tight job market, seems the employers are requiring more and more from job seeks, even as a software engineer and new migrant. English is not most migrants' first language, so it will become a serious social problem that the society can't accept non-English background migrants. By writing this, I am still trying hard to improve my English anyway but not that easy to change significantly in one day.

Tough market

This year, seems the market is very different from before already. 99% employers seeking for 150% skilled employee for their requirement plus excellent local English.  This is not right for an open migrant country Australia, especially for IT industry. If the employers don't wish the employee to learn and know the new things, but just require employee to have the exact skills they want, that is no good for the future of the IT. IT is creative and innovative, IT people tend to be always like to learn and happy to learn things thing they don's know, as even you are very knowledgeable people, you will also have something you don't know.

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About suspend my msn space

temporally suspend my msn space, but will keep posting this blog.

Switching to Ubuntu

using wubi, and trying to get the most used windows software ready in ubuntu.

tip 1. Never hibernate/suspend your ubuntu if installed by wubi, otherwise you will lost all data, and wubi will reinstall everything for you again.
tip 2. install flash player to view youtube? must update your ubuntu first, before download & install flash player plug-in for firefox, otherwise will be tought.
adding.... hah,,,any comments?

My video blog

Worldwide please visit  http://www.youtube.com/makefire

Within China please visit http://www.tudou.com/home/makefire

Week Seven

Job Hunting Week Seven Now.

04 Aug 2009

My daughter's first video on Youtube

She was learning walking and pushing the pram.






@Sydney Olympic Park


April 2009

有趣的Banker

最近忙找工作的事情焦头烂额， 刚interview完发现有一个missed call ， 马上打回去， "This is Tony Su, I think I missed your call..."， 对方马上说"Tony啊，我是Steven啊" , 我一听回道"啊你是Steven啊~", 双方1秒钟对峙无语， 然后对方说"我是xx银行的Steven ... " ，原来是来问我最近要不要买房贷款或者投资的，搪塞了一下说最近时局不好。 错以为他是同事好朋友Steve了， 在天天的Agent们的电话Spam中来这样一个电话很奇很新颖令人神清气爽，兴趣盎然呵呵！

找工作是种乐趣

Fun of Job Hunting:

• Meeting different people
• Knowing your value
• Brushing your knowledge
• Feeling the market
• Getting new ideas
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Forth Week Job Hunting

找工作第四周,几点体会:

• 澳洲六月份达到失业率新高 - 原先觉地已经走出危机底谷的估计过于乐观
• Agent多是挂空职位, 多是一个电话问了情况后再无音信 - Agent是最不可靠的
• Banking, Insurance 行业是这次金融危机中受创最大的部分 - 所以Java 的领域职位近于饱和，至少现在是这样, dot net 也许类似吧
  
• Senior Developer职位对于你的skills近乎要你100% match的苛刻程度 - 有点不match别人就懒地理你

接下来的展望：

• 七月新的financial year 开始各公司又有新的funding - 稍有一丝生机的迹象
• 如果七月份失业再创新高 - 那下半年就岌岌可危了
• Good Luck!

16 July 2009
Sydney, Australia

Australia Unemployment Rate up to June

澳洲失业率走向

Starting using new wiki

Abandoned my old wiki from wikidot.com. Wikidot is not bad, easy to use, but not very stable, always found either indexing not working or searching not working, and wikidot is blocked in China. Therefore decided to install my own wiki which is same with wikipedia, opensource, solve all the problems. Welcome to my new wiki: http://wiki.tony-su.com

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HD TV + IPTV

终于买了个HD TV, TPG的IPTV现在也派上用场了。 不过接收HD无线信号还是不好。

Microsoft Live Search换马甲Bing.com

据说跟Google很像是Google Killer...

Bing.com还是Beta中， 试目以待，不知道会不会以后出个BMail, BingDoc

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点背

驾照被suspend了, P2 的都要double demerit火大啊

End of Autumn Semester

又快要一个学期结束了， 日子又不好过了。。。

Star Trek 11

Yesterday watched movie "Star Trek 11" (星际旅行 11), really wonderful pictures, especially the spaceships. Human will definitely one day be living outside earth.

http://www.startrekmovie.com/


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Finally the clock is non-stop

前不久买一个clock, 两周内停了3，4次，拿回华人超市去换； 回来又一周，又停两次，怒，拿回去，不要了。

终于花时间去BigW找了一个clock, 贵90 cents, 又一个多星期， 终于non-stop了so far。。。




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