Archive for the ‘Job search’ Category

They want to hire you AND your best friend.

A recent Tweet string with @wileyccoyote inspired this post. It went something like this…

I am not currently in the job market looking for a position, but I was as recently as January 2010. I also have many (more than I can count on one hand) friends and family members in the job market. And, many [...]

Job hunt not going well? Maybe it’s the reflection in the mirror.

Not your physical reflection. The less tangible harder-to-control reflection. The emotional one.
It is a very difficult job market and you must be prepared for:
1.) Organizations that have been bootstrapping their workload and are starting to get burnt out. And although they WANT to hire, they are often times waiting on company performance and looser budgets [...]

Job hunting? Sleep through Thursdays.

I’ve been in the job market for 4+ weeks now. It’s an odd market. I am both lucky to be in it, and — at the same time — very unfortunate because employers are tapped for resources, hiring cycles are longer and we’re coming to the end of the year.
Give it a chance. This really [...]

I want to work for you. Please talk to my Mom.

When I was managing the Progress Software web development team, I traveled to India and spent two weeks interviewing and hiring a team of web developers in Hyderabad, India. It was one of the best trips of my life but I’ll leave that for another post.
Many of the candidates brought family with them. Not one [...]

When was the last time you quid pro quo’d?

QUID PRO QUO
A friend inserted this phrase into my daily vernacular a few years ago. According to Wikipedia it is, “(From the Latin meaning “something for something”)[1] indicates a more-or-less equal exchange or substitution of goods or services.”
It’s a phrase that runs through my mind a lot lately and prompts me to ask — when [...]