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You say you have been attempting to get a job for the past 3 months. Over the past week, what activities, specifically, have you done to get a job? Have you b
by patio11 12y ago
You say you have been attempting to get a job for the past 3 months. Over the past week, what activities, specifically, have you done to get a job? Have you been to interviews? How many? How did they go? Were there any questions you were unable to answer? Was there any particularly difficult part of the interview?
Did you not attend interviews in the last week? In the alternative, have you lined up interviews? How many?
Did you not line up any interviews in the last week? In the alternative, have you identified people with the authority to hire Ruby on Rails engineers? How many? By what process are you identifying them? After identifying them, what compelling offer are you making them? Since most people with hiring authority are in the toughest market ever for people attempting to hire developers with experience shipping applications, they should be willing to take coffee dates with you.
You will not get most of your leads for coffee dates through your resume. In fact, if you could take your resume off the Internet, that would probably be in your favor. It does not currently suggest that you are going to be a successful candidate for a white collar position. You should not put your resume back on the Internet until it highlights your professional accomplishments. When put your resume back on the Internet, it will be absolutely devoid of errors in spelling, punctuation, word choice, professional tone, and grammar.
You mention that you have previous experience with SEO, social media, and shipping applications. You should be comfortable with discussing specific successes which you have had with this. If you do not have specific successes which you can talk about, do not mention SEO/social media/etc, and instead focus on the fact that you have successfully shipped applications. In the current environment, years of experience with successfully shipping commercial applications makes you substantially more experienced than the bar for junior developers.
If you actually have made people money with SEO and you can also code, you should know that your skill set is white hot right now. You should be contacting people whose businesses would benefit from that combination of skills, tell them how they would benefit in a similar fashion as other people you have worked with by having you implement brief sketch goes here, and then attempting to convince them to hire you.
When you are speaking to people in the industry, do not mention the words "homeless", "inexperienced", "spaghetti", or anything else which suggests that you are desperate for a job. You are not desperate for a job. You are a white collar professional with a skillset which is in incredible demand at the moment. You should carry yourself like that.
- kevinskii 12y ago> In fact, if you could take your resume off the Internet, that would probably be in your favor. Please seriously consider taking down your personal website as well. In five minutes of glancing through your blog entries I found too many glaring "do not hire" flags to mention here. You seem like a decent sort of person, and I mean this with all due respect. Good luck in your search.
- brianpgordon 12y ago48 pages of thinly-veiled ads and MLM scams! I did some Google searches and I was amazed to find that it seems to be entirely original content. I don't know how that can be profitable.
- claar 12y agoWhen I'm hiring, attention to detail is huge, particularly on the technical side of things. The very first image on the personal site shows badly aligned PHP code (the if statement isn't aligned with the assignment above it). I wouldn't be able to make it past that if I had a stack of 20 resumes to whittle down.
- patio11 12y agoBy the way, on the offchance you're not aware of it: the single most compelling things on your resume are both buried behind "more details..." The following suggests substantial technical competence at multiple levels, which is both above the level which you self-identify as and is not hinted to elsewhere in the resume: Features of CRM: Shopping Cart, API for Bookscouter etc to pull in quotes, Sort and Filter orders using AngularJS, Sort and Filter Files assigned to Buyers(payroll, etc..), Drag and drop files, and assign files to buyers using inline editing. Api's used: Amazon Product API for book data, UPS Shipping API for shipping labels. Cache/Sessions: Redis. Server Stack: 2 App Servers w/ content duplicated via GlusterFS and served up via nodebalancers. 1 Central Storage Server for Redis, File Uploads, Analytics(Piwik), Mysql(Master). All reads come from a local mysql slave, w/ writes going to the master. Nginx + php5-fpm php5.4 + APC + Varnish. The following contains specific examples of business value which you've created with your SEO/marketing skills, as opposed to the body of the resume, which says "Managed many wordpress installations, and seo marketing campaigns for multiple sites.": Achieved 1st rank in google for keyword 'final expense'. Made all technical decisions and handled everything relating to the web properties. That's an unfortunate way to phrase that accomplishment, since many people do not work in insurance and don't realize that what you really accomplished was: "Created a system which produced insurance leads, adding hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue per $TIME_INTERVAL. The system operated at zero marginal cost per acquisition, a substantial improvement over the industry standard of spending 30% of gross revenue on acquisition."