I am writing this to let all of my readers know that I will be temporarily offline for a bit. Due to being out of work I have had to resort to turning off the internet and going to the coffee shop down the street to use the internet. If you are looking to talk to me about a potential Web Developer position you can grab my resume from the site. It contains all of my contact details.
I have been doing nothing more than interviewing the last few weeks. The interviews have all been set-up by technology recruiters for the most part. I am finding that I am being sent to interview for jobs that are not under my skill-set for the most part. For instance I interviewed with a company who told me the position was a front end developer position. I could have completed the tasks required for this position however when I was on the call I was asked only one question about front-end development.
Have you ever used the Blueprint CSS Framework?
I had never heard of this nor had I heard of a CSS Framework. Really all CSS is are definitions so a framework struck me as odd. I was also interviewed by a Java Developer who said our backgrounds have nothing in common so he was not sure what to ask me for questions. This is when I went over my background and what I had been working on.
My question for my readers is this. Since most interviews are not asking technical questions, how can I probe for them to show the Interviewer that I have the knowledge necessary for the position? What are your thoughts and what have your experiences been?
Last week I was contacted by First Financial USA, they said that they had found my resume on a website like Monster.com (this is very true as I am seeking work) and that they had a position for me. They wanted me to attend a conference call where everything would be explained however this is what they stated in the initial contact.
Your resume came to our attention recently and your background appears to match other highly successful members of our team who are motivated to build a career over the next 3-4 years.
FFUSA is an 12 year old financial services firm specializing in payment processing services for retail and medical merchants. Currently FFUSA serves thousands of merchants with over 100 sales professionals nationwide.
You owe it to yourself to take a few minutes exploring the FFUSA site to find out more about this unique career opportunity. We are looking for a limited number of sales professionals to add to our growing team.
Click here and you will be directed to a website that gives you more detail about the position and an opportunity to schedule a time to ask questions.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Melinda Hanson
FFUSA Human Resources Representative
805 Meander Ct
Medina, MN 55340
Over the last few weeks I have been applying all over for Web Developer positions here in the Boston area. I have been telling everyone that I am a beginner with CSS / JavaScript however I think I have been selling myself short. I decided to take the W3Schools CSS Quiz just to see how much I know off the top of my head. I found the quiz to be easy but I never figured I would make it through 20 questions in 3 minutes 34 seconds and get them all correct. I know that the W3Schools quiz is just a simple one so that you can see how much you know and is not actually a test of skill. While I still have quite a bit to learn I think I have been stating that I know less than I do and well that is not a good thing when it comes to trying to find a job. I have been trying to be honest however I have been lying to myself. I know more about CSS than I thought. I also did a lot of reading today from a sitepoint book I have and most of the stuff I understoood.
As most of you know I was recently laid off from my job working on politics.com due to budget cuts. I have been hitting all of the major sites to get my resume out there such as Dice, Monster, Craigslist, HotJobs, etc. I have a few interviews lined up but it does get a bit discouraging when you see things like on this Craigslist Post. The issues with this post is that you can tell it was a non-technical person who put it together. Shouldn’t a company have someone with a wealth of technical knowledge try to do the hiring? Should they hire a recruiting company to do this?
I am sure they will fill the position it just made me laugh a bit when I saw things like the following in the job posts ideal areas of expertise.
* Classic ASP
* Active server pages
* CSS
* Stylesheets
* Development
* Programmer
* Application
* Install
* Troubleshoot
For now the search will continue. If you are a recruiter for the Boston area or know of one please feel free to contact me or pass on my information.
I have been working remote for companies for over the last 3 years. I have a solid reputation and am able to perform better from my home office than I am from an in-house position. I am seeking ANY type of employment right now whether it be contract, part time or full time. However I am looking more for full time work.
If you have anything or know of any position please let me know. I was just notified today that my position at my current employer has been dissolved.
I have 10 years of experience with PHP, you can see my resume here.
Over the last few months the team at Politics.com has been very hard at work. We have been working on a lot of new features to make the site even more interactive for the user. I am hoping that all of these changes will make the site become more popular with the political community. If you are political in the very least and love the social side of the internet you should definitely check out the site. Politics.com is a social networking site where you can meet people and debate political issues. There are a lot of features to the site and I will not be covering them all in this post but you can think of it as a combination between YouTube, Digg and Facebook!
Today I asked a co-worker if they had an e-mail regular expression that they used all the time and the response I got was this
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=email+regex
While I have seen that site before it is designed and programmed much nicer and even made me laugh again.
The last few months have been keeping me so busy that I have not been able to post anything on my blog. I am happy that I am able to post about the public launch of Politics.com.
The site will be going live around 3PM EST today. If you have any interest in politics please head over and see what I have been working on. It has been a long few months but I am proud of what the team and I have accomplished.
Politics.com is a social networking site, think of Facebook and YouTube combined into one with only one topic “politics”.
You can post news, blogs, videos whatever you want. You can even help determine what lands on the front page by contributing to the site. Making comments on or endorsing an article will help it’s overall ranking on the site.
I admit that in the past I have never really been that political but after working on this site I have been paying more and more attention to things. I am still not sure who I want to win or whether I am a Republican or Democrat. I still have more time I am in no hurry to rush my decisions.
Let me know what you think of the site!
If you have not already read my review on Coda you should do that now before you read this one. This review is based on what I personally feel are drawbacks in the application. I have been using Coda for the last few days pretty heavily for work. I feel that I have given it a good chance to prove itself as the tool of choice for development. In my last review I went over a lot of the good features that Coda has to offer, in this post however I will go over what I find to be drawbacks in the application.
