Job Search Tips

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Another great article. This one is about the need to go the extra in your job search. This does not mean using colored resume paper by the way.

Taking a lower salary is a question I get asked often. The answer is yes. In a difficult economic times it is better to take a lower salary so that you are working again. The longer you are out of work the longer poeple are going to wonder if something is wrong with you. Here is an article that covers this idea.

Read this article and ask yourself if you are making these mistakes. If you see yourself in this list I recommend that you take alternative actions.

Have you ever wondered what goes through the minds of hiring managers? Check out this article for some of the answers.

Here is a great article on keeping your job search organized.  Check it out here.

Here is a tip for all you computer programmers out there (get rid of that pocket protector, yes I’m talking to you).  If you want to develop your programmer career,or even break into the profession, what can you do?

One thing you could do is get involved in a programming community. There are thousands out there but the one I recommend is called Stackoverflow. This is a programming question and answer site with some cool twists. For example answers are voted on by the community. Because of this the correct answers to the questions are almost always positioned at the top.

The feature that make this site useful for a programming job search is reputation. Stackoverflow’s reputation is a rough approximation of how much the Stackoverflow community trusts you. You gain reputation points by having your answers voted up by the community.  As you gain reputation you gain more the ability to do things on the site like edit questions, leave comments, or even delete duplicate questions.

Success in building reputation is evidence of a talented developer. This is something that you could even put on your resume. I even know of tech recruiters that use the site to locate tech talent based (at least partially) on reputation scores.

In closing if you want to develop your programming career you should consider getting invovled with Stackoverflow.

I sometimes read about video resumes and how they are the wave of the future. Trust me thay aren’t. Check out this Time article for more information on the subject

This article cracked me up. Don’t do this at your next job interview: Aticle

My company offers resume writing services. One of the easiest up-sells we could offer our clients is resume distribution. “Why don’t you give me $195.00 extra dollars and I’ll distribute your resume to hundreds of online job boards?”

So why doesn’t my company offer this service and pocket some quick cash? The simple reason why we don’t is the fact that blasting your resume to hundreds of job boards does not help you find a job. All it does is give you unwanted email and phone calls from people tying to scam you. (work at home and make $1,000 per hour stuffing envelopes).

Save your money and post your information on a couple of the top job boards. You should consider using a separate email and phone number to avoid spam. Remember that while it’s ok to post your resume online, your best chance of job search success will come from networking.