Hi, On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Aaron Cooper <[email protected]>wrote:
> Morning all, > > I am looking at heading out as a contracter in near future after 4 years > with my current employer (full time). > > I was wondering, as this is my first time looking into contracting, if > anyone could provide any tips or online resources for Resumes and whether > they should be presented slightly differently than a developer looking for > full time employment. > > My background is 7 years programming experience, 5 of which have been PHP > and in a Senior capacity for the last 2. Zend Certified. Exp in ZF and alot > of work with client-side libraries such as Qooxdoo, ExtJS and a little Flex. > I'm piccking that my skillset should be the focus for someone looking for a > contractor, and employment history secondary. > > Also, for any of you employers or CTOs, are there any pet peeves that I > should bare in mind that will make you pass a resume by? It's been a while > since I've had to dust mine off. > from seeing you around here, I would expect you to be fairly experienced. The top problems with contractors are around time management and accountability. My pet peeves: - don't reinstall your machine on a weekday, I'm not interested why you can't bill out hours on a Friday at 9am when I need you to - get stuff done and let me know what I need to do to get them done - only tell me its finished when it is finished. There's a job ad from us in October 08, which together with a application form tries to weed out these problems as early as possible. The proof is always in the pudding. HTH, Jochen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
