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07/28/2017

And adding one more thing:
Have a clear strategy about building your career. It does not mean it can't change, but make your moves on alignment with your current strategy.

What’s it take to reach the top? At a Monday night panel discussion at Lyft, hosted by a San Francisco-based organization of international women called The Expat Woman, women tech leaders off…

06/12/2017

Don't say that during interview!
"I'm the perfect candidate for this job."
"How do I get your job?"
"So how did I do?"
http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/articles/2017-06-12/5-interview-lines-that-make-job-interviewers-cringe

Don't ask how to get your interviewer's job, and other eye-roll inducers.

06/08/2017

Very useful information, especially for those new to the workforce:
Myth: Your employer can't make you do something that's not in your job description.

Fact: Your manager can assign you any type of work she wants, regardless of what's in your job description...

Reference letters, HR confidentiality and other mistaken beliefs of the workplace.

05/12/2017

Do not keep interviewing when you have an offer - nothing good can come out of this.

Four reasons to think twice.

05/06/2017

Collection of advice on resume and cover letter writing:

I did a version of this post in 2012, and it’s become one of the posts that I link people to most frequently, so I figured it was time to update it. I talk

04/26/2017

Do not lie during job-searching process - it rarely pays, and often causes problems:

Answer (1 of 14): I’ve got a slightly different take on this than the others. When I recruited, I’ve seen the “I have another offer” strategy blow up in candidates’ faces. Here’s why. Hiring managers don’t like to be rushed - they like to feel that they are in control of making a well-thought o...

04/10/2017

Here is to brighten up your Monday:
"It was a horrible interview where she asked all of these ridiculous hypothetical questions (one was if one of their printers suddenly gained intelligence would I kill it or recognize it might be the will of God ) .... The fourth interview was fine. Then the person from the third interview called me back in for what she called “a final interview, analysis, and hopeful onboarding” ... She literally called me in to tell me she found me “mildly irritating”.
http://www.askamanager.org/2017/04/i-have-a-bad-feeling-about-the-job-im-interviewing-for.html -1439797

A reader writes: I have a question about evaluating a potential employer. I've been interviewing with a nonprofit, and the job would be a step up (higher p

04/05/2017

Concise and gentle-on-the-eyes resumes are much appreciated!

"Concise" means:
1 or 2, maximum 3 pages + if applicable , a separate page with the papers, conference presentations and invited talks.

"Gentle-on-the-eyes" means:
One can see who you are and what your interests and achievements are in under 15 sec and does not have to put on special glasses to read it.

And make sure that you are happy with the look-and-feel of your resume as it reflects your taste and personality!

03/28/2017

Colocate or not to colocate?
Dunbar number, anyone?

Less than a year into her tenure as IBM's Chief Marketing Officer, Michelle Peluso has announced that her thousands of marketing team members must now

03/13/2017

"What is the 8080 microprocessor opcode for an unconditional branch?"
“C3”
“You’re hired”
- and other short - really short! - interviews resulting in a hiring:

Answer (1 of 83): Thanks for the A2A. As Terry Lambert responded, the interview can be as short as “I have a job for you, when can you start?” when you have an existing relationship. Of course, that could also be considered the longest interview since that relationship tends to develop over mont...

03/11/2017

Sarcasm detected. A lot of sarcasm detected.
"You are exactly the candidate I'm looking for! We would like to bring you here for an on-site ASAP! [...] [...] 3. On-site interviewer: so you were working with cars a lot, right? OK. Please draw a wheel on this whiteboard. No, you can't use a compass, freehand only. Hmm, it doesn't look like a perfect circle. Can you change a tire? Took you 15 minutes? Sorry, no-go."

03/08/2017

Thanks, Facebook, but no thanks:
"Savvy job candidates have spent the last decade locking down their Facebook profiles in order to have some privacy from employers, and so that they wouldn't be judged for what they do in their off hours. This new feature reverses all that, offering what's essentially an engraved invitation for employers to look at your Facebook profile. Do you want your Facebook profile being the first impression an employer has of you?"

There may be some downsides to consider.

03/04/2017

backlash to whiteboard interviews:

“Whiteboard” interviews are widely hated. They also discriminate against people who are already underrepresented in the field.

01/27/2017

Yes, yes, YES! Very good advice, something I always recommend:
"All that is assumed under the job title. An intelligent hiring manager can guess what I do by looking at the job title.

For example if you are applying for job in a restaurant as a waiter, you previous job at another restaurant – all you need to write down is "waiter" – there is no need to explain what a waiter does.

And you know one thing you do not need to put on a resume? A lot of people do this – they write down something like “punctual and get along well with people” "

Answer: No! 1. It may have to be scanned with an optical character recognition software, and that will not come out correctly. The formatting may be lost and they will not be able to read it later. 2. You're not entering in a graphic art competition. This is not the time to do this. They have h...

01/25/2017

My favorite is number 2 - You obviously have qualifications your potential employer is looking for - otherwise you would not have gotten this interview. It is OK not know everything.
"2. Trying to hide it when you don’t know something. If you’re asked a question that you don’t know the answer to, the worst thing you can do is try to bluff your way through it. Your interviewer is likely to see through the bluff, and it will reflect more poorly on you than being upfront that you don’t know the answer. Being comfortable acknowledging when you don’t know something is a sign of professional maturity and confidence. Giving potentially wrong information just to cover up a lack of knowledge can be downright dangerous if you do it after you’re hired."

Don't overshare, interrupt or make any of these other missteps.

01/18/2017

No, you cannot be productive 12+ hours a day.
"There is plenty of research that shows that you can only be highly productive/creative around 3-4 hours a day. That you do your best work in batches of 90-120 minutes and that you need breaks to recharge your batteries"

Charlotte Malmberg's answer: There are lot of people who claim to work 12+ upto 18 hour days. And none of them do. If you have a look at the American Time Study, you will find that most people who claim to work 55 hours a week, actually work around 40 hours. People who claim to work around 70+ ho...

01/18/2017

Social media as marketing tool - and who controls it.

Is this LinkedIn extortion? Your new boss wants you to modify your profile into an advertisement for the company. Do you ask for an advertising fee?

01/10/2017

Looks like Performance Reviews do have some use:
"Reviews go into High, Strong, Good, and Needs to Improve basically in all Big Tech Cos. (Some have SuperHighs, but that's rare). And in my experiences, even at Adobe, even at a F500 leader with 10,000 employees ... there were zero politics in becoming a High. Because it's so clear who the Highs are.

The only real issues, the politics, is the fact that some groups have too many High candidates (often the outperforming products), and some have too few, which warps the curves a bit. So it's actually harder to be a High in an outperforming group than an under-performing group. "

Jason M. Lemkin's answer: I'd like to provide some insights from my experience as a VP at a leading F500 tech company, and as a reasonably successful start-up CEO. Promotions in the F500 are indeed complicated, but let me focus instead first on Performance Reviews, which is a penultimate step to...

01/06/2017

May the New Year be the one without Performance Evaluations!

"This type of performance evaluation was stupid. I couldn't remember a single employee improving his or her performance based on feedback given through this mechanism. The entire performance evaluation process always had a confrontational tone to it. And as a supervisor, I disliked it almost as much as my employees did.
I never knew how to determine the difference between a 3.5 and a 3.75. I thought the whole "No one ever gets a 5, or they'll stop trying" was one of the more illogical things I'd ever heard.
The entire exercise was dehumanizing, and as far as I could tell had no relationship whatsoever to actually improving performance. If that's the case, why did we continue to do it?"

Why the typical soul-crushing, performance killing, utterly useless performance review needs to disappear.

01/02/2017

Happy New Year!
Hope you will not have to resign your job any time soon, but if you do, make it classy!
“About those skinny lattes you kept sending me out for. They were actually all full fat.”

Olly Benson's answer: I was actually thinking about this story this morning before I saw this thread. It is possibly my favourite resignation story, although I don't know if it actually true or just an urban myth. Intern leaves fashion house/magazine having been treated like dirt for the past si...

12/29/2016

One of the nation’s leading firms delivering high-quality financial and economic analysis and expert testimony for complex commercial litigation, investigations, and regulatory proceedings, is looking for a talented Senior DBA to join their team in Downtown San Francisco. Responsibilities: Configure...

12/24/2016

Elti Solutions Team is wishing you joyful Holidays and a Happy New 2017 year!

12/13/2016

I always recommend having detailed descriptions of only the last 10 years worth of jobs on a resume, mostly because in our industry technology and skills become irrelevant quite rapidly. This article looks at the different reason to remove those older experiences from your resume.

You may remember this global panic from around the turn of the century: the “Y2K bug” was an obscure, but potentially disruptive, computer…

12/09/2016

Do you want to become a software developer? Consider those pro and cons.
Already work as a developer? Add your own!

Answer by Daniel Caspers, Software Development Engineer at Shure Inc., Keyboardist at likeabossa.com

12/07/2016

Do you find yourself saying "That is a good question!" a lot? You may want to rethink this phrasing!

Top tips on grammatical faux pas, mistakes we make, sometimes without knowing it. Our language makes a difference!

12/01/2016

We notice this too - something changes when the company grows beyond 150 people.
"At a startup, once the staff exceeds 150 people, employees are no longer the single, cohesive, culture-reinforcing unit they were during the company’s earliest days. Staffers become more specialized and entrenched with their teams, which are probably sprawled across an office, perhaps on multiple floors or in several locations."

When Quartz hit the milestone, the organization changed in ways that we didn’t anticipate.

11/30/2016

Our new posting in Santa Clara - Solar Energy, Software Development, MySQL DB.

We are looking for a back-end software engineer to help expand a rapidly growing solar monitoring software platform.  You will play a key role in the success of a rapidly-growing business of efficient energy solutions based on solar power and renewable energy.  Enjoy a stimulating and frie...

11/28/2016

"We hire programmers who are so passionate about problem solving that they code for the sheer fun of it."
"Many great engineers balance their jobs with side projects, such as building apps and web sites, building Arduino or Raspberry Pi contraptions, or experimenting with machine learning via Kaggle in order to push their skills in different directions. "
This begs the question - how about work/life balance?

When we founded AppLovin five years ago, it was our goal to build a team of great programmers. My job as CTO was to hire smart, passionate people and help them grow into world-class developers. Here’s

11/24/2016

Elti Solutions team wishes you a Happy and plentiful Thanksgiving!

11/18/2016

Do not do emails like this!

I always love a good confidentiality notice