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How Long is a Technology Career?
Matt Heusser has a great column over at Stickyminds this week. Take a look at A Long View of the ‘Short’ Technology Career. If you are an older job searcher, and you are looking for a job, one thing you … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Job Search
Tagged career, career development, experience, Manage Your Job Search
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Know Your Previous Job Patterns
If you are looking for a job, it’s more important that you know what your previous patterns are, so that you can make a choice: Do I repeat my previous pattern this time? Without knowing, we tend to repeat the … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Job Search
Tagged candidate, career, career time line, Manage Your Job Search
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What is the Fascination with Bachelor’s Degrees for Senior Managers?
I realize that many successful technical people have degrees. But the former Yahoo CEO was canned for lying on his resume about a bachelor’s degree Computer Science. Now, let’s think about this for a minute. A senior manager with 20 … Continue reading
Posted in hiring strategy
Tagged candidate, career, experience, job search, technical skills
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Never Lie on a Resume–Ever
Yahoo’s CEO lied on his resume. He does not have a degree in Computer Science. Well, many senior managers of high tech organizations don’t. So, that should have been okay. There are two questions here: Why did he feel the … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, candidate, career, experience, job search, resume
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Book Review: Land the Tech Job You Love
Andy Lester has written a great book about finding a job you love in any market. He thinks it’s just for technical people, but he’s wrong. It’s for anyone who wants to find a job that he or she can … Continue reading
Non-Competes Can Hurt Your Hiring
In yesterday’s Boston Globe there was an article, Start-ups stifled by noncompetes, which had a wonderful quote (go to the second page): Luckily, we have an academic here in Massachusetts who has dedicated the past few years to looking at … Continue reading
Employment Gaps
I just read Penelope Trunk’s Quit work for a while to have kids. Your career will be just fine. I hope it’s true. I don’t understand how it can be true for highly technical people. I hope I’m wrong. I … Continue reading
Listen to Think About Your Career
Michael Murray has an announcement about podcasts aimed at helping you think about your career. Take a look at Announcement – Episteme IT/InfoSec Career Portfolio Teleseminar & Podcast Series. From his blog: This series is going to be focused … Continue reading
“Where Do You Want to Be in Five Years?”
It’s common for candidates to be experts in some technical area that the manager knows little about. Sometimes managers don’t realize how to ask questions about the qualities, preferences, non-technical, or technical skills, so the manager asks, “Where do you … Continue reading
Jobs and Careers
I’m always amazed at the number of people who take a job because it’s steady employment, or don’t choose to leave a job when they’re no longer learning. Eric Sink’s Career Calculus is an excellent essay on the value and … Continue reading
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