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Re:Never hire job hoppers. Never. They make terrible employees. by hga on Friday April 23, 2010 @03:05PM (#1289173)
Anyone who spent at least 2 years at their first job is going to look good to those with a clue.

As you discovered, with all your recent jobs being short(er), you needed a good story, etc., but post dot.com crash I hope it wasn't too difficult. I wouldn't remove you from a job search for the above history.

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Re:Never hire job hoppers. Never. They make terrible employees. by lief79 on Friday April 23, 2010 @06:13PM (#1289652)
Getting the first job was the hard one. (911 with the post .com crash.) If you know what you are talking about, once you have a couple years programming experience, you can generally find something.

In this case, the J2EE, Hibernate and Seam (usually in place of Spring) experience has opened up a lot of interviews at places that wouldn't have looked at me before.

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