By Andy Lester
As a techie, you're a different breed, with precise demanding situations dealing with you within the task seek. Your pageant is sensible, tech-savvy, and hugely inventive. expectancies between employers are better. Your pageant will run you over if you're lower than the problem. Land the Tech task You Love grants the historical past, the abilities, and the hard-won knowledge to avoid the blunders of these who don't prepare.
you may no longer imagine you wish this booklet. traditional knowledge has it that discovering a task is straightforward: ship a few resumes, move on a few interviews, and take the provide that sounds top. yet that's just the start. You've obtained the heritage and abilities to paintings the net and different assets that the overall activity seeker doesn't. This ebook indicates you the way to use these talents or be left in the back of through competing techies who do.
all of it starts off with an exam of you, your strengths, and the place you will want your profession to take you. with no roadmap, you'll finally end up in any outdated task. Life's too brief to spend in a role that you just don't love. From there, you'll see how to define the activity you will have that matches you and the organization, utilizing your technical and net savvy to discover the hidden jobs that by no means make it into the classifieds or Monster.
"Marketing" isn't really a filthy be aware, and you'll current your self, your talents, and your historical past within the manner that exhibits the hiring corporation that you're the suitable individual for the activity. Create a resume that tosses out traditional knowledge, write conceal letters that promote your heritage, and gather a portfolio of labor that would wow the interviewer.
Social networking has been the darling of the net long ago few years, yet it's no alternative for this sort of own interplay that makes relationships that assist in destiny careers. As one supervisor stated, "One advice is worthy one million resumes." This e-book exhibits you the way to make and retain the connections that may force your destiny profession moves.
Land the Tech task You Love pulls no punches and lays out the main points for what will get you an interview, and will get you employed in a task within the technical international that makes you content.
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Document facts that let the interviewer draw her own conclusion about you and your value to her company. Her own opinion that you’re a “hard worker” is far more valuable than your own proclamation of it. The previous examples were taken from an interview setting, but they apply to any printed work as well. ” We’ll look at more specifics in Chapter 3, Résumé Content: Getting the Words Down, on page 51 and in Chapter 8, The Interview, on page 152. 7 Be Positive Every job book says to never badmouth a previous employer.
Truncheons in hand, magically seeing every résumé written, these officers of conformity seek out and punish those who do not follow the Golden Format when writing a résumé. 0 printing, May 2009) 53 W RITING A R ÉSUMÉ I S N OT S PEEDY I promise, the Résumé Police do not exist. Your ninth-grade English teacher, who made sure that your research paper had a bibliography that exactly matched a certain style, will not be scrutinizing your résumé. There’s no one “right” way to write a résumé. There’s no law that says you must have certain sections, in a certain order, or that you have to list the months as well as the years when listing positions.
If so, you limit your options, but make sure you know that about yourself. What to know: your sartorial minimums. Whether you can get by wearing a tie every day. What about Dockers? Pantyhose? Working Hours Day in, day out, you’re going to have a schedule of some form. How much does the company’s schedule mesh with when you want to work? Rigidity of the working schedule may make a difference. Can you work Monday through Friday from 7:45 to 4:15? How about whenever you want, so long as the work is done?