Monthly Archives: August 2004

Write Reasonable Rejection Letters

Candidates need to know where they stand — from the time you receive a resume until you’ve either hired them or rejected them. Make sure your autoresponses — or real rejection letters — don’t look like this: Subject: Got your … Continue reading

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Detecting How Candidates Have Learned

Dave Smith said, One thing I see little of in resumes, but which pops out in a positive way when I do see is, is acknowledgment of past failure, with evidence that the candidate learned something from it, or at … Continue reading

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Show Your Value

The folks at the monster blog have another winning post One More Time of tips for job seekers. One of the most important tips is to show your value in a resume, a tip from Five Ways to Make Your … Continue reading

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No more links to Bloghop

A service to rate blogs, bloghop, used to exist. It no longer seems to exist, so I’ve removed the links to the rating. If you want to tell me how you’d rate this blog, great. If bloghop comes back online … Continue reading

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Culture Matters

Recently, I spoke with a senior manager who’d outsourced new development to a non-local group. The development team has worked together in the past, and knows each other well. However, they are used to working on mature products, where you … Continue reading

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What’s the Value of Education to You?

Sorin’s comment says (in part): If, on the other hand, he is an alumnus of one of the “Grandes Ecoles” (which are themselves finely ranked), then it means that guy has what it takes to compete in the system. I … Continue reading

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