Career
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Would You Hire the CS Class of ’04 Today?
A comment in a Reddit computer science career advice forum got me thinking. There was mention about the high volume…
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Recruiter Job Posts, Explained
Over the years I’ve seen several complaints about the way agency recruiters write job posts, so I thought it might…
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Why You Are Overpaid
I wrote Why You Make Less Money in early 2013, which attempted to account for the many reasons some technology professionals make…
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How and Why to Backdoor Into Jobs
When I read anecdotes from frustrated job seekers in the tech industry, they usually start out the same way. “I…
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Hiring Indicators, OSS, and the Value of GitHub
As someone who writes about tech hiring and who has also encouraged many to participate in open source and establish…
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Revisiting Certifications
The job market is currently in a lull so I’ve been talking to a few new recruiters and gotten a…
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Why Your Resume is 10 Pages
Even though there are hundreds of articles professing the beauty and efficiency of the one page résumé, not a day…
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Tips for a Case Interview
Among the diversity of possible questions or often endless hiring steps a candidate could go through, the Case interview is…
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So, You Want To Quit Your Job? (Fantasy Versus Reality)
This is part two in a series about quitting your job. Check out the first post here. Imagine you are…
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