-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all,
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:53:56AM -0700, Mark C. Ballew wrote: > Out of the area employers looking for open source people should ask and > I'll re-post if I personally think they are useful. I got this email > from Tod at google yesterday (as well as cc'd from Tim). I hope this is > useful to someone. So I've spent pretty much my entire weekend tuning my resume over and over and trying to think of the best ways to express my qualifications for this position. Obviously as Ben said this is a needle i the haystack type of problem. How do I distinguish myself. On the website they request that you would send ASCII text or HTML format of the resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which of course parses the subject line and so on and so forth. Well I will most likely do this but I've also got a nice looking PDF version which I spent several days developing in Scribus that I hate to waste. I was thinking of sending it to Tod directly or perhaps fax/snail mailing it as if I'm not picked for this exact position I seem well qualified for several of the others. How does everyone else go about getting the job they desire? In the past I've either gone through a recruiter or had an inside contact. Are people with my quals a dime a dozen or do I have a decent chance at fitting in at Google? Ryan you said that you had interviewed with Google in the past. What was your experience like? I've been doing consulting security work for the last 6 months but I'd like to get back under a larger entity that has health-care and benefits. It seems like Google will be around for some time. Anyways sorry for the off-topic rant... flames, comments, suggestions, and especially cheerleading are well received at my end of the wire! I think I'm going to try the brute force method. E-mail the ASCII resume to the main address with a few of the job titles that match very tightly. E-mail the PDFs to Tod since I've spent so much time on them. And then call him at his office and get his Fax # and send some that way as well... at this point I'm willing to try just about anything. The idea of getting a look under the hood of their operation excites me. Regards, Charlie P.S. There are two files: http://penguinppc.org/~core/{resume,cover_letter}.pdf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCda79GAuLrxOyeJMRAsZuAJ0ZIriRuObRcFHgELd55hUiygNprwCglzyO rNfTW4csLD7s7JNUlTw1qGA= =SLjx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
