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A Lesson From School
by dbgoodrichThink back to high school math. Remember when the teacher handed out a test? Inside you would beg “No word problems – please, no word problems.” If the test was just multiple choice questions, or … Continue reading
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Be Honest About Your Corporate Culture
Defining A Hiring Process (part 3) Over time corporations, like people, develop personalities that define them. They can be inflexible or flexible, unfriendly or supportive, supportive of innovation or conservative in regards to change. This personality is also known as … Continue reading
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Some Advice to Recruiters
Over the past fourteen years I have looked through hundreds of resumes and conducted many dozens of interviews with candidates, most presented by recruiting agencies. Something I have noticed and commented on to recruiters on several occasions is the lack … Continue reading
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Defining A Software Developer Hiring Process
If you do a search for “the hiring process” on the internet, most articles you find these days identify it as an ongoing series of steps that begin with the identification of a hiring need and end with the Post … Continue reading
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If You Want to be a Developer, Be a Developer
A question I have observed on several forums (usually from a newbie programmer) is “How can a new programmer get experience when they cannot get hired due to lack of experience?” If you are first starting out and you are … Continue reading
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The Most Important Step
Defining A Hiring Process (part 2) One of the most important, yet often overlooked, steps of the hiring process is the step of creating detailed definitions of each position in the corporation. Each position should have a clear and concise … Continue reading
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A Lesson From School
Think back to high school math. Remember when the teacher handed out a test? Inside you would beg “No word problems – please, no word problems.” If the test was just multiple choice questions, or better yet true and false … Continue reading
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What Makes A Good Developer?
What makes a good developer? Is it years of experience, a college degree, number of languages known, ability to communicate, amount of minutia memorized, or certifications? This is a question I have been asked on many occasions. Unfortunately the answer … Continue reading
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Secrets of A Great I.T. Resume
Okay, I lied. The following ideas are not secrets nor do they represent original thought. In fact a better title might have been “Not Really so Secret Secrets of a Great I.T. Resume). Yet, within the I.T. Field at least, … Continue reading
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