Job Hunting 2014 Edition*** Ways to get noticed (besides GitHub): 1) Networking (like UPHPU, LinkedIn) 2) Create a Kickstarter project with hipster code 3) Write an app like Flappy Birds
Ways to get unnoticed: 1) Stay home playing Flappy Birds 2) Contribute to someone else's Kickstarter project 3) Use a recruiter Without going into a lot of details, I just switched jobs, and I'm very happy. But literally every time a recruiter submitted my resume, it guaranteed I didn't get called by that company. The absolute kiss of death! Of course, a recruiter working for that company is a different story. My point is, even if you get noticed by a recruiter on GitHib, they might actually destroy your chances. Just saying from experience... -- Cole Quoting Robert Merrill <[email protected]>: > On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, Walt Haas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So again, it seems the way to be noticed is >> by publicly contributing code to free software. >> >> -- Walt >> > > Makes sense to me :) although, not every recruiter can grep GitHub but > ...then again... It may also be a way to ensure any recruiter who does > contact you has a *teensy* bit more tech chops than the average. > > > -- > > *Robert Merrill* > > 801-228-0529 (calls/txts OK) > > http://connectedwell.com > > http://linkedin.com/in/robertmerrill > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
