Having been on both sides of the interview desk and read pretty much every piece of resume/interview advice out there, basically don't take any resume or interview advice from anyone who hasn't done extensive hiring/interviewing/vetting of candidates.
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Guy landed his first developer full time job at 30 and thinks he has valuable experience to share. Follows up some cliches of SF tech bubble recruitment tips.
This advice states:<p>For example, consider the file format you use when you respond. Here’s a couple of examples of response formats I’ve dealt with and what it makes me think of you.
[screenshot] This first example is a docx file. It means you’re likely using Windows<p>But the [screenshot] is from OSX. Is asking someone for prepared source code a good idea? I don't know, and have never asked. Sure I've looked at source online that's been referenced, but asking for a bunch of code... desperate copy paste from an existing non open sourced project seems a likely response, and not a good one.<p>> If definitely means you didn’t go out of your way to make it easy for me to read your code because there’s no syntax highlighting and the font is horrible.<p>'If' is a typo If -> It). I only get pedantic when pedantic is necessary. A blog post getting pedantic while not eating your own dog food isn't great.<p>Cover letter:<p>Seemed short and flippant. Perhaps this in is vogue where you are. I know a lot of Irish developers that would tailor something a lot more detailed and specific by default.<p>Agree with the author's points saying "I don't know" and general CV tips.<p>一半 [e-ban]. Half full advice, or half empty; basics with no real insight.
>I had about 3 years of professional freelancing and contract experience and a handful of side projects. I have a reasonably active Github account with a couple of open source projects. I even sometimes write code related blog posts and put them on the internet where nobody ever reads them.<p>>I probably came across as your average “better than junior but not quite senior” developer.<p>Man, I hope you're just being modest otherwise that's bad news for me.
This one is much much better: <a href="http://ortask.com/a-better-way-to-hire-developers-and-testers/" rel="nofollow">http://ortask.com/a-better-way-to-hire-developers-and-tester...</a>