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  1. Ask the Headhunter by cbull · · Score: 1 · on Non Disclosure Agreements in Interviews?

    I realize this is late, but I had posted this question to the Ask the Headhunter board at the Motley Fool site. (Here's the thread). I also noticed today that it made the front page of his primary WWW site. Basically, he agreed with a number of other people - be careful. I thought others here might be interested in knowing what a headhunter thought about this.

  2. Re:Not how I handle it by andy@petdance.com · · Score: 1 · on Programming Interviews Exposed
    Remember, YOU are interviewing THEM too.... You must make sure that the company is a good fit before bending over to sign the offer letter.
    Too true. There's nothing worse than getting hired at a company where you're desperately unhappy, unless it's listening to that person bitch about it.

    For more on the idea of finding the right fit for your job, I can't recommend Nick Corcodilos' excellent Ask The Headhunter highly enough. Even if you're not actively looking for a job, it will change the way you look at your current job.

  3. Ask the Headhunter by jabber · · Score: 1 · on Programming Interviews Exposed

    Ask the Headhunter.

  4. They can be, but don't depend on them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Are Free Certifications Helpful?

    HR people, and even techies doing the hiring tend to have certain checkboxes that they look for on a resume. If someone meets all or most of the boxes, they get put into a maybe pile. Otherwise, they get put into a round receptacle.

    After that, someone will take a few more minutes to actually read the resume to see if there's anything good. So while certifications may help you make the first cut, they probably won't take you farther than that.

    It also depends on whether or not the certification is meaningful to the reader. Chances are, no one has heard of or trusts the free ones. While it may impress the ignorant, it's not going to get you any farther than that. For example, I have Wilton's Level II certification. Sounds impressive? Maybe, but what does it mean? Nothing really, unless you're hiring cake decorators.

    The real question you should ask yourself is "What job do I want to do?" Then find out what kinds of places are hiring for type of job, and then find out if the companies are looking certification (and if so, what kind) and THEN worry about getting certified.

    If you want more job-seeking advice, you should check out Ask the HeadHunter. It takes a somewhat innovative, and very gutsy approach to job seeking, but to my mind, he makes a lot of sense.