Archive for the 'Resumes' Category

Found a new site: JobBored.com

After fumbling through the normal Lifehacker and Digg favorites, I stumbled across JobBored.com with this interesting post about how to organize your job search.  I would say that it’s interesting to note that how you divide and pursue various jobs you find is nearly as important as understanding what kind of job you want to […]

Better Resume Writing

Lifehacker links:
These are two of the best succinct on-line guides I’m seen for writing a resume.

How to construct the killer resume

Remember, always, that you’re trying to sell yourself to the company.

Ten tips for writing a resume that will get the right kind of attention

In a nutshell, the goal of any resume is to get an […]

Lifehacker linkhacker

Here’s a bunch of fun links from Lifehacker.

10 Ways Your Resume Irks Hiring Managers

These are pretty straightforward.  If you haven’t checked your resume for these things, good luck on your job search!

7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People

It’s always good to know what not to do.  Some of these may be surprising.

3 Steps for Success

Simple things, […]

Links: More Guy Kawasaki

So, the more I look at external sites, a person who’s writing tells a lot about Silicon Valley type thinking is this Guy.  The dude has some great connections including Penelope Trunk, who is a career columnist.  Guy has a really cool interview with her on his site.  I think her answers are pretty reasonable.  […]

Link: The value of networking

Yahoo! Hotjobs had an article that was also printed in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday about networking and how it helps during a job search.  Building your own personal network of contacts can be absolutely invaluable to finding a job and getting hired slightly easier.  As in some of our other posts, there are […]

Job Hunt: Resume Tips

The preparation of the resume is usually the first step in any job hunt. The resume should be setup to make sure that you 1) get past the recruiter and 2) convey to the hiring manager that he / she should want to learn more about you. There are some general rules:

TLAs - […]

Link: Getting a Job in Silicon Valley

Guy Kawasaki writes “Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley But Didn’t Know Who to Ask“. This is tailored a little more to a more experienced engineer. Taken with a grain of salt (as just about everything you read on the Internet, including this site), this is a […]