Career
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When Job Hopping Goes Wrong
While surfing a thread about a potential job change in Reddit’s /r/cscareerquestions (DISCLOSURE: I’m a mod), I read the following…
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The Recruiter Manifesto
It’s no secret that many agency recruiters behave unethically. As much as I enjoy getting paid to help companies grow…
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Is Your Employer a “Best Place To Work” For Developers?
Glassdoor recently released their Best Places to Work 2016/Employees Choice Awards, and as you would expect the top of the list…
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How to READ a Job Posting
After reading a recent article on DZone about writing developer job postings I started thinking about how job seekers often…
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What Are the Key Skills to Being a CTO?
You may have noticed that we’ve chatted with a lot of really smart people through our Inside Look interview series.…
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Pythonistas, Rubyists, and Gophers: Hiring Preferences Across Language Camps
For many years I recruited exclusively for clients that were seeking to hire Java developers and architects at all levels.…
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Why Programmers should take their CV seriously? 5 Tips to Make Better Resume
Recently I received an email from one of my readers telling me that he is not getting enough interview calls…
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The Worst Developer Resume in the World, Redux: Best Practices
Last week I published The Worst Developer Résumé in the World, which resulted in three things. We are not alone – The…
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The Worst Developer Resume in the World
As someone who has been recruiting in the software industry for nearly 20 years, I’ve read perhaps tens of thousands…
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