Three Things Jobseekers Need

Over and over again when I meet people seeking a job change, there’s three basic things everyone needs:

A Purpose - I am amazed at the number of people that don’t quite know what they want… they just want something different. Well, that’s a start, but won’t get you far.
A Resume that Works - There’s [...]

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Interview Rules for Designers

Since I’m currently recruiting for a Web UI & Graphic Designer, the following caught my eye and I thought to share.
Jessica Petersen, Senior UI Designer at local tech company Omniture, posted the following to the local Utah Graphic Arts Foundation email list, which I think is a great set of rules for interviewing if you’re [...]

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State of the Site: 2007

This probably goes in the “who cares” or “whatever” category of stuff posted this year…. but it’s MY BLOG, so you have to at least scroll or (if you’re reading my RSS FEED, then you have to delete this)!
Its interesting to look at how this website fluctuates in visitors and traffic. Utah Tech Jobs registered [...]

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Providing Professional References

When you’re asked to provide professional references, how should you do it?  Here’s a super-brief primer–just three things:

Never give out your references’ contact information blindly.  Be sure you’ve got something real going on before just doling out people’s home phone number or connection information.  For one, it’s not polite and doesn’t show your references any [...]

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Finalizing Edits to Word Documents

One great feature of Microsoft Word and other word processors is the ability for multiple authors to make changes while tracking them all. In Word, this is called “Track Changes” and is turned on by clicking the command under the Tools menu.
BUT, once you’ve finished making changes, it is confusing how to make the [...]

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5 Worst Interview Mess-ups

Thanks to a coworker who passed this link along:

Five Worst-Case Interview Scenarios
You thought you were prepared for that interview. But sometimes even the best laid plans can’t ward off unexpected disaster. Besides having a getaway car waiting to quickly whisk you away from an awkward situation, there are ways to overcome even the most embarrassing [...]

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PHP Resume Template

Real geeks let their computer write their resume for them. Alex King has a PHP script to template your resume from on-screen HTML to a portable .html document or a .text doc.
What’s next from here is building a resume Microformat(Wikipedia), and then embedding this into your HTML-resume. (I need to duplicate myself so I have [...]

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