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by fecak 10y ago
Bullet unique achievements. Responsibilities will be better in a few sentences in paragraph form before the bullets.
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by fecak 10y ago
I've been recruiting software engineers for nearly 20 years and started a side resume business (resumeraiders.com) a couple years ago when seeing how much people were being charged for sub-par resumes. Your question is somewhat common.
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by fecak 10y ago
I've consulted to many people on making the jump from self-employment to employee and the other way around - probably more of them making the opposite change. As for the right time to change, that's a question with lots of factors
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by fecak 10y ago
Your original question was "how I can help him get money for housing, food, and clothes?". Whether or not you speak to the media, and whether those appearances are paid, probably wouldn't impact your client's financial
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by fecak 10y ago
I wonder if Dateline would have interest in updating his story, and if there might be any compensation for something like that. I'm not involved in TV production, but you would think if they had enough interest to report on his convict
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by fecak 10y ago
Just based on how that phrase is worded ("all developers..."), this would seem like a market almost purely to hire bootcamp graduates.
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by fecak 10y ago
>I literally scan the bio of the one connecting for the words 'recruiter' or 'business development' and then reject them. It's because I'm not looking to use LinkedIn for that reason. If someone is scanning
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by fecak 10y ago
This was my point and you've phrased it well. How should someone try to identify companies they may want to work for (especially if geography is at play)? You can search open jobs, but everyone is doing that. If you want startups, you
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by fecak 10y ago
I'm not entirely sure if you're referring to 'your competitors' to mean 'other recruiters' (not sure you realized I'm a recruiter), but my comment here actually is referring to job seekers interacting dire
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by fecak 10y ago
I think these conversations don't happen because job seekers aren't really using LinkedIn in this way, at least yet. When I coach job seekers, I usually encourage them to use LinkedIn to try and identify companies that could be a
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by fecak 10y ago
Most recruiters view a LinkedIn profile as an invite to reach out to almost anyone, and many recruiters apparently are reaching out to people who explicitly say "please, don't contact me if you're a recruiter". There use
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by fecak 10y ago
OK. If you happened to be on LinkedIn and saw someone that had taken the time to put together an attractive profile (nice summary, links to GitHub and maybe a tech blog, their email address (contact me at...), a comment about being open to
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by fecak 10y ago
I think part of the problem is that we often see CTO as the holy grail for the technical side of things, where that is the final stop in a linear career path. DEV > SR. DEV > ARCHITECT (maybe) > TECH LEAD > DEV MGR > VP/
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by fecak 10y ago
> I wouldn't personally hire someone via recruiters or LinkedIn, but I would hire someone via a recomendation from a contact I maintain on LinkedIn. I'm a recruiter, and fully understand reluctance to use recruiters (expensive,
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by fecak 10y ago
I'm not a lawyer (I'm a recruiter), and during my initial training years ago I was under the impression that the recruiter wasn't obligated to say who gave the bad reference, but was obligated to reveal the information provid
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by fecak 10y ago
I write extensively about careers for technical professionals on my blog (jobtipsforgeeks.com) and various other sites that publish my material. I don't know too many others who write as much specifically geared towards technologists,
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by fecak 10y ago
Branding/marketing oneself, how to make solid career decisions, and general job search type activities don't help you on a day-to-day basis like productivity and communication, but they can greatly impact the overall career trajec
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by fecak 10y ago
>It's true that the #1 mistake people make is to sell themselves short by giving away a (low) salary upfront. As an agency/3rd party recruiter/headhunter who asks people questions about salary all the time (current or desi
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by fecak 10y ago
I can't speak of the past couple years, but in 2012 I reached out to him to see if he might be interested in speaking to a users group I ran (Philadelphia Java Users' Group) because I knew he was local and would likely draw a crow
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by fecak 10y ago
I'm not sure I'd recommend that tactic unless you thought you were in for a long period of unemployment and could find legitimate work to point to if someone were to ask. It's not likely that an employer would interrogate som
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Got Fired? A list of do's and don'ts(jobtipsforgeeks.com)
8 points by fecak 10y ago|2 comments
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by fecak 10y ago
The good news is there are plenty of shops that don't ask these types of questions in interviews. Most of the companies you mention have a technical reputation as being elite, and as you say they can hire or interview as they please. E
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by fecak 10y ago
The mention of hiring a recruiter from a brand name like Facebook or Google is a great point that I imagine may historically be overlooked by founders. For hiring engineers, the theory of "good enough for Google, good enough for me&quo
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Technical Certifications and My World's Greatest Dad Mug(jobtipsforgeeks.com)
2 points by fecak 10y ago|0 comments
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Are You Underpaid?(jobtipsforgeeks.com)
1 points by fecak 11y ago|0 comments
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by fecak 11y ago
I think we agree on much of this. Regarding your anecdote of the uncle with the nice house, I'm sure when nephews and nieces of 44 year olds like us (who might be teenagers now) see software developers with fancy cars and 6 figure inco
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by fecak 11y ago
>looking at the data, I'd say that any "shortage" is pretty easily explained as a rational response to pay, career security, working conditions, and the opportunity to do meaningful work that helps others. I've said t
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by fecak 11y ago
It's not useful to try and debate that one field is more difficult than others. All three fields employ a mix of people with varying intellect. It's also not useful to make silly claims that every decent engineer you know had the
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by fecak 11y ago
Doctors and lawyers require outside certification and extensive post-graduate education just to enter the industry . Comparing them to software engineers is not a useful comparison.
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by fecak 11y ago
Let's concede that older programmers in their 50s may have less free time to learn new technologies than a 20-something. Shouldn't we also consider how much less time it will take an experienced dev (who has perhaps already learne

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