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Want Your Dream Job? Get Creative

21 points by dylangs1030 15y ago

ecaron 15y ago
Being creative applies to both the application process AND the search process. For instance, one of the coolest jobs I've come across this month is for Social Games Quantitative Analyst at PopCap, which sounds significantly cooler once you read the description (http://tbe.taleo.net/NA9/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=POPCAP&cws=1&rid=284 http://tbe.taleo.net/NA9/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=POP...) My point is that if you want your dream job, also break out of the standard "ruby on rails nosql..." keywords you're using and feel free to browse rather than just searching.
tsunamifury 15y ago
The presentation read a lot like "Barney's Video Resume" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBADPyaZe_E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBADPyaZe_E Something like 'I built XXXX" or "I Made this :Link:" is a lot more powerful to me than a set of animations promising abstract things I'll achieve.
- Adrock 15y ago
  Yes, it reads that way, but if you're just reading the words, you're missing the point. It demonstrated passion for the product, attention to detail, and the ability to get something cool done. Those are things I would hire for.
jphackworth 15y ago
I feel like what makes a "dream job" is so often the people you're working with, rather than your job title or the product. I'd rather be working with smart people who respected my work on a normal piece of software, than working on, say, a fun video game where my boss was a slave-driver.
- yawn 15y ago
  Although I'm a full-time programmer, the best and worst job I ever had was as a bookseller at a major bookstore chain. When I first got there, my coworkers were passionate about books--it was something the store manager looked for when she hired. It was a fantastic place and time to be there. When the store manager was promoted out of the position, she was replaced by a more corporate type who had different hiring criteria. In a little over a year, she turned the place into just another job because she hired people that had no passion. The ones that did left. It became another 9 to 5, and I think the store suffered because of it.
xiaoma 15y ago
The link to her webinar is broken (i.e. the webinar is no longer available). Any idea where to download it? I'd like to see how to use slideshare like that.

21 points by dylangs1030 15y ago

Being creative applies to both the application process AND the search process. For instance, one of the coolest jobs I've come across this month is for Social Games Quantitative Analyst at PopCap, which sounds significantly cooler once you read the description (http://tbe.taleo.net/NA9/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=POPCAP&cws=1&rid=284 http://tbe.taleo.net/NA9/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=POP...) My point is that if you want your dream job, also break out of the standard "ruby on rails nosql..." keywords you're using and feel free to browse rather than just searching.

tsunamifury 15y ago

The presentation read a lot like "Barney's Video Resume" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBADPyaZe_E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBADPyaZe_E Something like 'I built XXXX" or "I Made this :Link:" is a lot more powerful to me than a set of animations promising abstract things I'll achieve.

Adrock 15y ago
Yes, it reads that way, but if you're just reading the words, you're missing the point. It demonstrated passion for the product, attention to detail, and the ability to get something cool done. Those are things I would hire for.

jphackworth 15y ago

I feel like what makes a "dream job" is so often the people you're working with, rather than your job title or the product. I'd rather be working with smart people who respected my work on a normal piece of software, than working on, say, a fun video game where my boss was a slave-driver.

yawn 15y ago
Although I'm a full-time programmer, the best and worst job I ever had was as a bookseller at a major bookstore chain. When I first got there, my coworkers were passionate about books--it was something the store manager looked for when she hired. It was a fantastic place and time to be there. When the store manager was promoted out of the position, she was replaced by a more corporate type who had different hiring criteria. In a little over a year, she turned the place into just another job because she hired people that had no passion. The ones that did left. It became another 9 to 5, and I think the store suffered because of it.

xiaoma 15y ago

The link to her webinar is broken (i.e. the webinar is no longer available). Any idea where to download it? I'd like to see how to use slideshare like that.