Dan,
Good luck. The trend I saw in my consulting practice (when I had an
active one) is that EDI has become a very mature, commodity market, with
fewer companies running their own translators. For small companies the
trend has been toward web-based solutions, and for mid sized to large
companies who want to integrate their back end applications the trend
has been toward outsourcing ("in the cloud", managed services,
whatever). If you want to stay in EDI your best bets may be with service
providers. Health care insurance (HIPAA EDI) may be an exception to
those trends, but most employers in that niche want business experience
in health care in addition to EDI skills.
Depending on what your software skills are you may have a more promising
future in writing software.
Mike
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Michael C. Rawlins, Senior Software Engineer, GXS
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On 9/27/2013 11:33 PM, PCD wrote:
Almost 20 years since I did one. Have to start now. I'm not sure if I
want to go back writing systems software or get another EDI gig. I'm
on LinkedIn. I have a skeleton resume there. I have to recreate one.
Any tips to navigate the current market will be greatly appreciated.
Dan Mehlhorn
