I’ve been back in hiring mode at work now for about 6 months. I’ve filled one of three openings so far, and have looked at over 100 qualified applicants. It has been suggested that I am, for lack of a…
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puzzles
If you don’t keep a puzzle squarely in front of your nerd, they’ll go make/find their own. @rands
Selling Jobs? I’m Not Buying!
I wrote this several months ago after a particularly annoying set of calls with a “recruiter” from a local staffing firm. At the time, I was helping another team in my division interview candidates for a Senior Developer with exceptionally…
I Don’t Care How Good You Are At Programming
I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don’t understand your… quirks… you will wind up being shunted to the side. No one wants to…
Down with Generic Resumes
One popular strategy for job hunting is to build a nice generic resume (or have some resume agency build it for you), then blast it out to all the employers that you can find. If you think about it for…
6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck
Are you experienced? Sexy. Rather than cite Jimi Hendrix on your resume, pleeease just say what your experience entails. Saying you’re experienced at something and giving the facts on that experience are two very different approaches. Squawkfox Via Lifehacker.
Quadrant I: Delegate or Die!
Urgent and Important I seriously considered not even writing about the first Quadrant of the Time Management Matrix. I’ve written previously about keeping tasks from sliding down the slippery slope towards becoming both urgent and important, so I figured that…
Quadrant II: Making those other plans
Important but not Urgent I love to plan. Making lists, brainstorming, hypothesizing. I love it all. If I could design my perfect day, I wouldn’t do a single urgent thing. Rather, I’d spend the time getting done anything that I…
Quadrant III: What happens when you're busy making other plans
Urgent but Not Important Lennon said: Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. He could have been talking about the Time Management Matrix when he said this. I’m nearly certain that he wasn’t, but his…
Quadrant IV: The Procrastinator's Corner
Not Urgent, Not Important According to The Time Management Matrix, activities that are neither urgent nor important fall into Quadrant IV, a position that I refer to as “The Procrastinator’s Corner”. These are the trivial, unimportant things that you do…
