When I left Virginia and was looking for interesting tech jobs around the US one of the companies employing was DHL in Phoenix. They were inshoring again after an extended period of outsourcing when it was all the fashion in the late 1990s and early august. While the load of the coding remained in India most of the higher end stuff was being brought back to the US and Phoenix was the location that was doing it. As a consequence they were hiring a lot of Architects and Tech leads.

If I recall correctly I did a couple of interviews with them but it didn't go anywhere. As it turned out it was probably a good thing as DHL imploded about eighteen months later and I ended up working with a lot of ex-DHLers are the current place I am working at as they all jumped ship once that happened.

Anyway, one of the annoying aspects of looking for a job on Monster, Careerbuilder or Dice is that the company hiring makes you go to their website and re-enter all your resume information again into some sucky, horrible form that usually doesn't work correctly and ends up in some stuck unusable state. DHL was one of those places. I got this email the other day;

As you have not logged onto your candidate profile at DHL for an extended period of time, your details will be deleted from our candidate database in 30 days. If you do not want your details to be deleted, simply log onto your candidate profile at http:// blah blah / within the next 30 in order for your account to remain active.

Thanks for the reminder DHL, I only put that information in there because you made me. Otherwise I would not have bothered. That is only the place that has emailed me that they are purging their database, or the only place that has gotten through gmail's spam filters to tell me. I guess the other places have those on file for eternity or drop them off silently. I am guessing it is in there for eternity as I still get recruiters contacting me about jobs on the east coast with tech and job descriptions that could only have come from an outdated resume.