Before the failure of the dot-com industry, the largest job market was found in fly-by-night online companies. Students fresh out of college had little trouble finding well-paying jobs for small Internet companies that promised to make millionaires of their employees.However, the Internet market began to falter last year, and now college graduates must look elsewhere for jobs. This is also having an effect on those in the information technology and other computer-related industries.

“Even five years ago, I saw this coming,” said Katherine Escobedo, owner of Omega Resumes in Citrus Heights. “It used to be that, if you were highly skilled, you were in demand. Now everyone’s skilled, and the market is flooded with talent.”

Josie Guerrero of Select Personnel Services, an employment agency in Sacramento, further explained the lack of jobs in the IT area.

“If the dot-com industry goes down, the need for IT goes down,” Guerrero said.

Guerrero said that she sees a lot of people looking for jobs in the IT field, but their requested salaries are too high for current job markets.

So, what jobs are available? According to http://intljobs.about.com, administrators and managers will be in high demand through 2008.

“Managers in engineering, natural science and computer information systems will see the most growth: 43 percent, or about 142,000 additional jobs,” read a prediction on the Web site.

When asked if this seemed to reflect job trends in the Sacramento area, Guerrero and Escobedo agreed, saying that they see a lot of jobs for entry-level managerial positions.

“There are lots of entry-level jobs that can quickly turn into executive positions,” Escobedo said.

However, managerial and executive jobs are not the only ones out there.

“In Sacramento, I get a lot of people for general warehouse jobs,” Guerrero said.

Jobs in pharmaceutical sales are also in hot demand, as well as jobs in employment and resume services. People always need jobs, and they always need help finding them, Escobedo said. While jobs in pharmaceutical sales require a college degree and a background in the medical field, experience is not always everything.

“Employers are really looking for people who can make it to work and are willing to stay,” Guerrero said.

There are jobs in nearly every field, as long as people are willing to make the effort to get them.

“There are so many jobs out there at the executive level, and so few people with the confidence to go after them,” Escobedo said. “Confidence wins over skills every time.”