I'm an IT Generalist. I can do a large number of things well, but I'm not an expert at any of them. For example I can work with MYSQL but I'm far from being intimately familiar with it. Same is true of networking, Active Directory, Exchange, Linux and a number of other things. But as I'm talking to people in my search for a new job I've come to realize not being hyper-specialized is often going to get you passed over.
Has anyone else here ever worked for a factory or a mill doing the minimum wage grunt work? You know where you do the same task over and over and over again. Of course you get extremely good at that one thing (stacking blocks anyone?) but if you have to go do another job you're pretty close to useless. But that's exactly what companies seem to be hiring for now days in their IT departments. Bodies to do one task repetitively.
Today in particular it really struck me. I had a tech recruiter looking at my resume and she was emphatic that I was showing casing too many skills. That I needed to focus on one particular skill set and write the resume to that. She also suggested that I create multiple resumes each one focused on a different skill.
Or am I just looking in the wrong places for the wrong kind of jobs?