Escaping
the Catch-22 — How to get experience when you don't have any
Thriving
in the Oncoming Lane — Creating fulfilling work in the high-tech industry
(or "How to avoid becoming roadkill
on the Information Superhighway")
Getting
Specific — Important questions that help us match you with the right
job
Offsite
Contracts — Why they're rare, and how to get (and keep) that ideal
‘100% telecommuting’ project
Building
a portfolio of developer-oriented documentation — If you want to write
for programmers but haven't yet, don't let inexperience stand in your way
Interview
Your Recruiting Firm — What you should know to get the most from a
recruiter
Related
professional resources for the evolving communicator
Skills
Inventory — A long list of key words and phrases to remind you of the
skills
you already have and which, when you
add them to your resume, will help us to help you
The
Ideal Tech Pubs Resume: a work in progress — Our highly opinionated
perspective
on what makes a good resume, and why
Checklist
for the Ideal Tech Pubs Resume — A barebones checklist based on our
ideal Tech Pubs Resume article.
Sample resumes so you can see what we're talking about (in Acrobat
or Word format).Click here
to download Acrobat for your platform.
Resume
bloopers — The humorous side of recruiting
Questions
to ask your colleagues-to-be — to find out what work is like in the
trenches
Questions
to ask the hiring manager — when you are in a position to be
truly discerning.
Questions
hiring managers might ask your references — Forewarned is forearmed
EDD's
watching contractors more closely — California's EDD now requires 'service
recipients' to notify them every time they pay an unincorporated contractor
more than $600
Relocation
Calculator — Got a lot of stuff? Want to know how much it'll cost to
move it across the Bay or around the world? Here's your answer.
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