Job Market - interview

Mon Nov 7 18:33:12 PST 2005

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> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
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>> I don't think education has anything to do with it. I finished high
>> school at 15
>
> smart kid :-)

No, if I was a smart kid, I'd have gone straight into business, and  
become
a millionaire in the dot-com craze.. Instead, I got suckered in by tech
purism and  slaved away as a sysadmin for far too long. Cults are bad,
even open-source cults!

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>> A lot of people don't know how to interview. When I've been in hiring
>> positions, I've
>> had people come in and brag about themselves, "me this, me that",
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> but that is how you get the interview ...
>
> but once there, you do have to change to "show how you can help them"
> 	( them this and them that )

I don't think you open any doors by talking about yourself. The  
resume is just
a tool to show that you can read and write, and maybe appear in keyword
searches. If you write your resume in a way that boldly says "this is  
what I
will do for you", then you will get far more responses.  Ask a  
marketing guy
to spend a lunch-hour explaining features versus benefits to you in  
layman's
speak. It'll change your world.

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