Career Advice
Programming Languages That Aren’t Worth Your Time
As we all know, it seems like new programming languages are created every week. But which ones aren’t worth wasting your time on? I looked at actual listings on Dice to try to spot some trends. In late April, I searched both the entire set of job listings as well as specific job titles to see what skills companies were actually looking for. Here’s what I found. First, it’s safe to say that the Web is the primary focus of… continue…
Planning for the Financial Impact of Your New Job
By Brian Spero Technology employers continue to struggle to find the right people to fill open positions, which is a good thing for people who are looking for work. Those with the right set of skills and experience can find themselves weighing several offers at once, a notion that has more IT professionals weighing the possibility of jumping to new company. As they mull things over, though, many job seekers don’t pay nearly enough attention to the financial implications of… continue…
10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Work for a Startup
With their promise of potentially building something to rock the world, not to mention potential riches that could come from an IPO, startups hold a lot of sex appeal. But if you’re thinking that jumping into that kind of adventure is the next step in your career, be sure you’re thinking carefully. Some people are drawn to the idea of new companies the way moths are drawn to light — and they end up getting fried. To help you avoid… continue…
Create Virtuoso Cover Letters With These 9 Stories
If you respond to job postings by sending in a resume by itself, I’ve got bad news: You have to send a cover letter, too. Even in this day of job boards and email, the cover letter is the first thing employers look at when they open up your application, and they’re bound to at least skim it before they go on to review the work history you’ve listed in your resume. Yes, it’s another step in an already laborious… continue…
Interview Questions for Developers Over 18
Working in the business side of adult entertainment isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but these companies are often among the leaders when it comes to aggressive use of technology and closely following best practices. It’s a dynamic that fascinates us: That’s why we wrote about the adult website Kink.com some months ago, and why we went back to its CTO, Steve Morgan, to find out how he goes about hiring developers for his tech team of about 25 people. For… continue…
6 Stories to Make Your Interview Succeed
After weeks of sending out your resume and networking with your colleagues, you’ve landed the interview. Now what? You’d be wise to not only research the company, its culture, business and product road map, but also bone up on the art of the interview. To set you on your way, here are six stories with advice on what you should — and as importantly, shouldn’t — do when you sit down across the table or walk over to the white… continue…
How to Make Your Resume Bullets Jump
Somewhere in the midst of discussions about things like “tailoring your resume to the position,” one of the best pieces of resume advice gets lost: Your resume needs to be accomplishment-oriented. Many resumes that I see do precisely the opposite. They offer bullets like: Contributed to design documents on ________ feature and helped coordinate international expansion. Implemented various features for new Office layout tool. Yawn. I want to know what you accomplished. I don’t really care much about your team’s… continue…
5 Stories on Making Your Resume Great
The purpose of a resume is surprisingly simple: To get you a job interview. It’s the tool you use to show HR that you’re a serious enough candidate to tell the hiring manager about, and to demonstrate to the hiring manager that you can do the job she needs done. But how do you know if yours is as effective as it has to be? One way is to check out these stories. They’ll help you make sure you’re taking… continue…
SWOT Can Put You on the Right Career Path
After graduating from the University of San Diego, Hussein Yahfoufi knew he ultimately wanted to end up as a CIO or CTO. But he had a couple of hurdles to scale. First, his degree was in finance. Second, his first couple of jobs were in finance, not tech. On the other hand, he excelled at IT work, and received rave reviews for his project work. Still, he knew he had to carefully review his situation if he wanted to find… continue…
7 Stories to Read Before You Jump to a Startup
People who’ve never worked in the startup world often think of it romantically. All that freedom and flexibility, not to mention the potential payoff, sound a lot better than coding according to your boss’s mood that day. But new companies aren’t all glamour and new technology. All-nighters get old, as does low pay, and sometimes the ups and downs of getting a business off the ground are as harrowing as flying through a thunderstorm. Nowadays, when “job security” seems something… continue…
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