Synergistech's Career-Development Corner

 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

 Common keyword misspellings on résumés — Catch 'em before the hiring manager does

 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

 Dealing with Recruiters and Negotiating Compensation — candid insight and counsel for winning on both fronts

 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