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I’m not sure if it helps “get” jobs but it doesn’t hurt. My current web site is 3drocketsurgery.com. The chrisbennet.com one is all stuff that I did 10 years a
by chrisbennet 8y ago
I’m not sure if it helps “get” jobs but it doesn’t hurt.
My current web site is 3drocketsurgery.com. The chrisbennet.com one is all stuff that I did 10 years ago or more. Neither of them are sites you would find via a web search. Not a single person has contacted me through 3drocketsurgery site’s contact form and my name isn’t on it anywhere on it (on purpose). I used to use it with my resume’ and now use it instead of one.
I don’t actually call people or actively search for work. I do try to talk people out of hiring me sometimes. Reading this it makes it seem like I’ve got it all figured out but in reality, I’m just lucky and I’m expecting my luck to run out at some point. It’s kind of scary to be honest.
- zerr 8y agoI was hoping investing in website might reverse the first contact vector, i.e. clients would call me first... Otherwise, so far my CV works just fine, so I guess there is no point in having a website.
- chrisbennet 8y agoI don’t make “first contact” with my clients that way but I think it really helps to have an interesting portfolio that they can look at once contact is made. It slipped my mind earlier, but I did have a hiring manager from Mathematica tell me he saw something I’d done from my website once - probably got the link to my web sites from LinkedIn. He’d seen a video of a virtual oscilloscope I’d written for laser stuff. I doubt he would have called otherwise since my resume’ isn’t “out there” for everyone to see.