Don Xml's Grok This

I'm finally feed up with Resume Trawlers, and I'm going to do something about it.  I've written about how I'm trying to deal with Resume Trawlers, and have had many people thank me for the ideas, but the trawlers continue to do their thing.  The jobs boards don't help, and so we have to band together and let the ...

Chip laments the current state of Information Technology recruiting (and recruiters), and questions the etiquette of what has become the bain of information technology jobseekers, recruiter blindly mass emailing all canidates found thru a key word search.  I know that the JobGals have talked about this topic recently, and even covered part of ...

In case you haven’t run into LinkedIn before, it is slowly becoming the place for the corporate crowd to cultivate their “network” of friends and associates.  I’ve been a member for quite a while, but recently I have seen a major up tick in the number of friends and associates now using LinedIn.  One of the big ...

So, you have read and followed my post Developer Career Tips -2006 and now you are ready to look for a new job.  So, what do most job seekers do when they want to announce their availability?  They post their resume to a job search website.  Well, it isn’t as easy as they make it seem.  Posting a resume on a job search website (like Dice, ...

In my post Developer Career Tips 2006, I mentioned that the Information Technology recruiting infrastructure was decimated by the dot com bust.  One of the things I do not like to do is to complain about something being broken, and not at least make an attempt to give solutions on how to fix it, thus this post. Blogs – Weblogs are ...

I’ve been an independent consulting for over a decade, and one of the things I always hated was doing all my own back office work.  You know, all those things that you have to do to run a business (payroll, taxes, accounts payable, account receivable, etc.) but the time spent doing these things are not hours that you can bill to a ...

Since it is New Year 2006 there are a lot developer bloggers out there giving their resolutions, and a lot of the seem to be centered around their careers.  So, I thought that I’d start a developer career tips thread and see if others pick up on it and add their thoughts. Caveat – I’m an independent consultant and my ...

Since I publicly advertised that I am looking for some more consulting work I’ve been approached by a couple people about starting up (or joining) an new IT consulting firm.  For those of you that don’t know my background, I’ve been an independent consultant for almost all of my career (over 12 years as an ...

Looks like Edgardo is starting a new category on his blog (Meeting Hell, Part 1) that is sort of a DailyWTF but for Meetings.  Something like that could turn into a full blown site.  I HATE MEETINGS. I just had make sure everyone understands where I am coming from.  Yes, some meetings are important (and knowing which ones is ...

Gretchen, Microsoft Recruiter and blogger, suggests that you include your name on resumes posted on job boards, but as a consultant, I’ve always told people not to do that. I always suggest that people remove their name address, and phone number on a resume that is open to the public, and replace them with an email address created just for ...