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    Triangle Area Job Hunt Collaborations

The purpose of this moderated receiver list is to 
share information of interest to job seekers in the 
NC RTP Area. The intent is to collect information 
and redistribute in the form of a weekly news letter. 

To submit information to be shared, please send it to 
     <mailto:ieee-jhc-owner at rtpnet.org>.

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             JOB OPPORTUNITIES

* International Rectifier Opens IC Design Center in North Carolina 
http://www.irf.com/whats-new/nr040302.html
Carolina Design Center Open House
5:30 PM on Tuesday, March 23
http://www.resumeware.net/ir_rw/ir_jobsearch.cfm?view=detail&reqnum=373737&c
International Rectifier Corp. will be growing their Cary Semiconductor
Design Facility from 7 current employees to 30 this year.

--- To Post and Register for notification of Job Opportunities
  via the Triangle Networking Group.
http://www.trianglenetworkinggroup.com/register.htm
--- To post job opportunities, please visit 
www.federal-systems.com/scrubs/discus/show.cgi?9/9
--- To Register for notification of Job Opportunities
  via the Eastern North Carolina Section of the IEEE.
www.federal-systems.com/scrubs/discus/board-profile.cgi?action=register

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            NETWORKING EVENTS

 * St. Mikes Career Group
http://www.stmichaelcary.org/ministry/careertransitions/ministry.shtml
 - The dos and don'ts of applying for and interviewing for today's information technology positions
 > Tuesday, March 9, 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church

 * Microsoft DevDays
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032245047&Culture=en-US
 - Intro to the Prescriptive Architecture Group
 > Tuesday, March 9, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Marriott Durham at the Civic Center (free)

 * Triangle New Technology Users Group
www.tntug.org/meetings.htm
 - VMWare, Inc. - Virtual Systems Software
 > Tuesday, March 9, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
RTI International's Dreyfus Auditorium

 * The National Society of Black Engineers
www.nsbe-region2ae.org/rtp/calendar.html
 - Toastmasters Workshop & Elections
 > Tuesday, March 9, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Triangle United Way Center, Morrisville

 * trinugsig General Meeting .NET
http://trinug.org/
 - .NET Integration in SQL Server 'Yukon'
 > Wednesday, March 10, 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
GSK Auditorium - Elion-Hitchings Building

 * CED-IEEE Joint Event
http://www.cednc.org/cgi-bin/irCom.pl?384/1/db/351/0/0/28/0/0/0/2051
 - Follow the Money
 > Wednesday, March 10, 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
MCNC Bldg. 1, 3021 Cornwallis Rd., RTP $30

 * TNG
http://www.trianglenetworkinggroup.com/tng_monthly_membership_meetings.htm
 - How to Sell  Yourself.. Selling basics for the self-employed and/or the Job-Seeker
 > Wednesday, March 10, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Procom Services, 3000 RDU Center Drive (Aviation Parkway)

 * Association of Information Technology Professionals
http://www.rtp-aitp.org
 - Managing Client and Team Relations on Projects
 > Thursday, March 11, 5:15 PM - 8:45 PM
Holiday Inn $30

 * NC Project Management Institute
www.ncpmi.org/meeting/jan.htm
 - Group Decision Making
 > Thursday, March 11, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Sheraton $20

 * Triangle Business and Professional Women
http://www.trianglebpw.com/events.html
 - Young Careerist Program
 > Thursday, March 11, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wyndham Garden Hotel off of I-40 and Miami Blvd. $20

 * triLUG
http://www.trilug.org
 - Games on Linux - Penguins Are Fun, Too!
 > Thursday, March 11, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Dreyfus Auditorium

 * JUG
http://www.trijug.org/
 - Java Server Faces
 > Monday, March 15, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
MCNC, 3021 Cornwallis Rd., RTP

 * Durham County Seminars
http://courses.durhamtech.edu/events/
 - Who's In Charge of Your Life? Self-Care for Small Business Owners
 > Tuesday, March 16, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The N.C. Mutual Building $5

 * Raleigh American Society for Quality
http://rtpnet.org/~asq/programs.html
 - An introduction to process auditing
 > Tuesday, March 16, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Radisson Governors Inn

 * RTP SAS User Group (RTSUG)
http://www.rtpnet.org/~rtsug/meetings.shtml
 - 'ODS Markup/Tagsets' & 'ODS Document'
 > Wednesday, March 17, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
RTI International

 * Embedded Systems NCSU's Center for Embedded Systems Research
http://ieee-embedded.org/
 - Topic TBD
 > Wednesday, March 17, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
ISA, 67 Alexander Drive

 * Part Eleven Electronic Records & Signatures group
http://peers.onsphere.com/
 > Thursday, March 18, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Quintiles Riverbirch building

 * Triangle Interactive Marketing Association
http://www.tima-nc.org
 - How Broadband is changing the User & Advertiser Experience
 > Thursday, March 18, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Morrisville Chamber of Commerce

 * TISQUA
www.tisqa.org
 - Software Quality Assurance -- Making Muskets by Hand?
 > Thursday, March 18, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Centra Software

 * RTPnet 5th Annual Conference
http://www.rtpnet.org/rtpconf/
 - Bridging North Carolina's Digital/Human Divide
 > Friday, March 19, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Friday Center in Chapel Hill

--- IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Community
https://www.ieeecommunities.org/encs
--- Job Seekers Support Groups
http://www.unc.edu/~hwm/ec/notes.html
--- RTP Technical User and Special Interest Groups
http://www.pobox.com/~burnett/triangle/groups.html
--- RTP Business Events Calendar
http://www.eventswire.com/triangle/index.shtml#rtpevents

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              TRAINING 

* Free Training for Displaced Engineers
Mentor Graphics, a developer of electronic design automation tools, 
is offering free training to unemployed U.S. designers and engineers. 
Students should have B.S. or M.S. degrees in electronic engineering 
or comparable experience. Classes take place at Mentor Graphics 
Training Centers in locations such as Austin, Boston (Marlborough), 
Chicago, Minneapolis, Dallas, Denver (Longmont), Portland, and San 
Jose. For a list of courses and enrollment information, go to
<http://www.mentor.com/es/dwp/>

 * PDI
http://www.southeastcon.com/pdi
 - So You Want to be an Entrepreneur
 > Tuesday, March 9, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
ISA Training Center on Alexander Drive

 * Wake Tech
851-1313
 - Building and Maintaining a Successful Consulting Practice
 > Tuesday, March 9, 6:45 PM - 8:45 PM
BIC, 600 Waverly Place, Cary

 * Durham Tech
http://courses.durhamtech.edu/events/
 - Does PowerPoint Help or Hinder Learning?
 > Wednesday, March 10, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Durham Technical Community College

 * Java Software Development Workshop
http://www.federal-systems.com/scrubs/discus/show.cgi?8/472
 > Friday, March 12, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Eva Perry Library

 * Pragmatic Web Dev
www.trinug.org
 - We will review user authentication using the web.config file with a custom login control.
 > Tuesday, March 16, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
GSK MERIDIAN SITE

 * Architecture and Patterns
www.trinug.org
 > Tuesday, March 16, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
GSK MERIDIAN SITE

 * North Regional Library
870-4000
 - So You Want to Start your Own Business
 > Tuesday, March 16, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
200 Horizon Drive, Raleigh

--- Research Triangle Software Java Symposium
www.nofluffjuststuff.com
 - "No Fluff, Just Stuff" Java Symposium
 > June 11-13
The early bird registration (good thru 3/23/04) is $625/attendee. 
There is a special discount of $50 available to all User Group members which is valid thru 5/14/04 
(Final Price is $575/person). Please use the discount code "rtssjug575". 
After 5/14/04, the registration fee will be $725/person.

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             GENERAL INTEREST

* Unemployment Rate for Electrical Engineers and Computer Scientists Reaches All-Time High in 2003
Fourth Quarter Jobless Rate Fell for EEs, Rises for Aerospace and Computer Hardware Engineers.
http://www.ieeeusa.org/releases/2004/022604pr.html

* IEEE-USA LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
http://www.ieeeusa.org/conferences/2004workshop/program.asp

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