Need to use a wildcard in a condition with if job is running

[Shelley Taylor]

I need to use a wildcard in a condition on if job is running.  Since the condition uses the alias name instead of the job name I need to be able to have the condition look for any instance of the job running, since it runs often and aliases are used, and if it is then delay for some time until there are no more jobs running.  I have used the wildcard * and %  and have put double quotes around the job name and wildcard but none of these seem to work.

[Pete Wirfs]

If this is to avoid job collisions, I'd like to suggest that using a SYNC object would be a better solution?