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As an acomplished IT manager http://www.linkedin.com/in/zachmiller I can tell you that you may want to pause before entering.

There are parts to management that are really great. Growing people and building projects and budgets is fun.

But you have to be willing to relinquish the technology and trust your fate to others.

You have to be willing to work wiht the business and understand them and leave the technology.

Can you do that?

I got nailed in the Bomb, like a lot of us. Went through 4 companies in 3 years, and only one of them still existed after I left it (for another 3 whole months). Leaves you with nothing but crap on your resume; can't even prove the companies existed, more less get a reference.

Mine included:

http://www.linkedin.com/answers/management/business-analytics/MGM_ANA/101713-5305562?browseIdx=1&sik=1199915466174&goback=.ama

Some of these are actually pretty good.

My name is Nathanael Majoros. I like making jokes about gay hardons! http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=385989&cid=21668765

Here's my linkedin page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nmajoros

Here's my website: http://majoros.net/

I am a Design Administrator at Belgacom Mobile (Proximus) http://www.proximus.be/ in Brussels, Belgium

I use the emails troudenouille@gmail.com and nmajoros@majoros.net

I've worked as a Developer at FL Consulting, and an Academic Assistant at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

I was educated at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Koninklijk Atheneum Keerbergen

My name is Nathanael Majoros. I like making jokes about gay hardons!

Here's my linkedin page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nmajoros

Here's my website: http://majoros.net/

I am a Design Administrator at Belgacom Mobile (Proximus) http://www.proximus.be/ in Brussels, Belgium

I use the emails troudenouille@gmail.com and nmajoros@majoros.net

I've worked as a Developer at FL Consulting, and an Academic Assistant at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

I was educated at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Koninklijk Atheneum Keerbergen

My advice is:

* Use a real name and optionally nicknames that map easily to your real name
* get a website, now
* make sure all your nicknames are associated with your site where your real name is visible
* List your website prominently in your CV
* Give examples of your work on your CV with URLs
* Enter into various professional societies (eg I'm in IEEE Engineering Management Society, ACM, BCS, ACS, IET, Chartered Management Institute, ...) and learn how to network
* Enter into professional social networking sites like LinkedIn
* Make sure your fellow members in societies and social networking sites are aware when you go job-hunting
* A webpage which is entirely professional smells like lies. Always put facts about your personality and hobbies in your webpages, eg explain your love with poetry, software programming, etc. Do *not* separate your personal and professional lives, as you should be proud for both of them.
* Unless you are in great financial need, you should carefully choose your employer: If you work for someone who has very different and incompatible personality with you, then problems will occur. Try to find employers who share your views, eg if you like free software go work for a free software shop rather than a closed-source megacorp. This means that you *want* to put facts about your personal life and opinions in your webpages, to enable incompatible employers to self-filter themselves out. It's better to not take up a job with a culturally incompatible employer rather than take it and quit or get laid off after a week because of personality clashes with your boss!
* Don't care that much about what others think about you, be yourself and enjoy company with people similar to you. If I go hiring, I would prefer a person who is not afraid to state their opinions and hobbies freely and proudly, rather than a drone who has learnt to think like a slave and believes that they need to project a specific image to the world rather than their true self.
* Print out a Google results page for a term, eg 'management expert', and show it off along your CV if any of your webpages make it to the first page
* If you fail at something in your career and you are asked about it, say what you learnt from it and how it made you a better professional. Don't hide up facts.

And my best advice is:
* Start your own business: Self-create your success rather than wait for others to give it to you s a ready meal!

I wonder if it's the same person? Maybe it's an inside job? :-) Wierd!

Why not? Makes no diff in most sane cases... Hell, I had the best send-off ever in my career at my last position (a DoD and web services contractor), and Hell, yes I recommend the place for anyone looking for Java programming or sysadmin work in Salt Lake City (I left because I was moving to Portland at the time, and they were a smallish company with no other location but the one).

Besides, Linked-In would tell your friends (and clued-in managers) where you went eventually anyways, no?

/P

A little googling revealed that his actual title is:

Senior Voice Interface Engineer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/billb

These are no ordinary Joe at amazon. These are some of the bigwigs, that makes it even more shameful.

First author: Andrew Jassy, senior VP of Amazon Web service, MBA degree from Harvard B school.

Second Author: Udi Manber , Professor at University of Arizona, and chief "algorithm" officer at Amazon. Doctorate from University of Washington.

third author: Jonathan Leblang , Former VP of A9 and Alexa, current director of A2Z Development center for Amazon. Graduate of George Mason University and Virginia Tech.

From looking at the actual e-mail headers, his name is probably misspelled at TPB. It should be Jay Mairs, a very lonely person right now.

In the immortal words of Nelson: Ha-ha!

Director of Interdiction Development
MediaSentry Div of SafeNet
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SFNT; Computer & Network Security industry)
September 2004 -- November 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Lead team of software developers and systems engineers developing interdiction solutions for P2P networks.
Designed and deployed new Linux based 300+ host distributed infrastructure for p2p decoy distribution with automated command, control and monitoring. Designed and deployed network of filtered eDonkey servers. Managed roll out of new BitTorrent interdiction infrastructure. Implemented multiple p2p file trading clients on hosts utilizing VMware.

After more in-depth analysis...we've determined that the new version DOES affect our interdiction in a negative way. They've added a new "bt.ban_ratio" field that takes into consideration how many good pieces a client has uploaded.
[....]
We still see a lot of hash_check fails...but now the only peers getting banned are ours. This also affects MediaSentry's interdicted torrents. They are no longer effective on the newest version either.

I'm surprised linkedin wasn't mentioned. It's getting a lot of use by the professional social networking crowd.

Because then no one would search for his LinkedIn account, thus upping his number of connections from a mere 8.

The reporter's profile

and facebook profile

and linkedin profile

And this was from the DIGG community. Wow, do reporters even try anymore?

Posting anonymous because I don't want to look like a total creep. Or an Internet Hate Machine (TM). Hrm, will this give me Hackers on Steroids cred? (actaully I just want to save karma, because I don't normally do this)

I'm not so sure. Social networking software seems to be taking off in some work-related contexts. My cow-orkers, for instance, are particularly enthralled with a site called LinkedIn. I have yet to see how useful it is, but if it really serves as a repository and tool for maintaining business contacts, why wouldn't it be useful? I think it's too early to write this stuff off.

Case in point, I was a cynic of Skype and IM for work. I'm not any longer. Many of our software contractors are located in India and Europe. Skype and IM save us time and money because it circumvents the costly POTS system and is very convenient. By those standards alone, they are successful. I can't say that social networking software would be any different.

Sure, if social networks are just full of "dumbass teenagers", it probably won't be of any value. But I don't think they're headed that way. Just because they're trendy doesn't mean they're not useful.

Perhaps you shouldn't focus on the big-name companies, but on small/medium sized companies with strong growth. In those companies, HR is just a basic filter to get people in the door to talk to the engineers. There are still misses, but more due to a mismatch of skills/experience than incompitence. Overall, I'd say HR brings in the right candidates and we filter to those we want.

If you want a shot, you can apply at my employer (Rearden Commerce). If you'd prefer, you can email me your resume and I'll submit it directly.

ben_manes at yahoo dot com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/benmanes

While there certainly are social networks with strong sexual overtones, http://www.mocospace.com/ for example, I don't think sex explains the success of a site like http://www.linkedin.com/.

http://www.linkedin.com/ is basically what you're referring to

http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=8 351638&fromSearch=0&sik=1180662956865&split_page=1 &rd=out&authToken=0IXdQKHOZNGtyVTBvJMf-Bi4digkljnQ ldgkV5gzB5gP13cP8Rh3cUcPoNdjcU&authType=NAME_SEARC H&goback=.srp_1_1180662956865_out

This guy, Paul Parish, and his colleagues from Emerald Consulting call me on a weekly basis. They tricked somebody into giving them my company issued cellphone number, and since they use a private number, I pretty much have to pick it up everytime, since it could be a support call. They won't tell me how they got my number. They claim they got it from my linked in profile, but I never put my phone number there, and my linked in profile specifies that I am currently NOT open to new opportunities.

Also, these guys : http://www.computerfutures.com/

Who keep calling me and keep offering me jobs at my former employers, which indicates that they don't even bother to check my resume.
Often, they call me several times for the exact same position at the exact same company, which is even more annoying.

A goodly number of pro and con arguments were presented there; Tina evidently sought to glean the ones that she could keep as unambiguous ones. She failed, on the "price" one, in that most of the other OSS database systems don't have a MySQL AB ready to collect licensing fees from you...

I've been contacted by at least 3 different recruiters. One tried to add me to her contact list at http://www.linkedin.com/ but I declined since I don't want to work in the U.S.

Not the computer kind.

Lean on all the friends you had in high school. Sign up to a site like http://www.linkedin.com/ which is basically a job search site that uses networking to help you be more successful in your search... you'll be surprised how many people you know are "linked" with people offering jobs. (Or "linked" with people in the kind of big companies who are always hiring talent, regardless of their job listings.)

So I can't use a social networking site at a library... even to network for a JOB?

What about people (for example some small bands) who maintain their websites through services such as MySpace, because they can't get, afford, or know how to do the coding to set up a website of their own?

Or users of services like Facebook, where a school organization or club may be hosted mostly or entirely on the service, because the tools are extremely convenient to use and FREE? All of a sudden, those tools become off limits - neither club officers nor the members can communicate until an alternate (and probably more expensive) method is set up.

Someone is being paid way too much money to come up with these ridiculous bills.

He says nothing about what it is that he actually does in IT or what his own experiences are

So, would you like his phone number too?,

Colin Bondi
Systems Manager at Newkirk Products, Inc.
Portland, Oregon Area | Financial Services
cmbondi_AVOID_SPAM_@_AVOID_SPAM!hotmail.com

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/636/780

Indeed. Their definition of what constitutes a social networking site was a little broad for my tastes.

I was also surprised that http://www.linkedin.com/ wasn't mentioned, since that seems to be the more 'adult' version of MySpace. Practically everyone I know via employment has a LinkedIn account.

Forget job sites that is not the way to go. There is a very good book What Color Is Your Parachute? that explaines the right way to do this. The most helpful website I have found is Linkedin

I want a social networking site that is oriented toward jobfinding, and that works. So far, there are social networking sites that purport to be all about helping people connect with jobs, but LinkedIn and their ilk aren't quite there yet. They're moving in the right direction, but it still has the feel of a Monster-type site with the social network info bolted on.

The hard truth is that none of the job-hunting sites are much better than a newspaper ad. You can search and match and quantify all you want, but at the end of it all, you'll still using a process that relies on an attempt to quantify human characteristics. If you are a non-traditional employee in some way, or if you are the kind of person who motivates teams very well, or if you are someone who can put out fires extremely well, during the initial vetting process your means of conveying these strengths are very limited.

This is just as frustrating for companies that are offering jobs. Managers looking for new hires vary in what they are looking for, obviously, but it is particularly frustrating if you are attempting to hire the right kind of person first, and the right position fit second. Management books frequently talk about hiring people who will fit with your team, people who can learn the specifics of the job, but have the overall aptitude and personality that make the most sense for the long haul. I've hired people who didn't know a damned thing about the specifics of their job, but excelled over people who had years of experience but the wrong attitude.

Currently the process, despite all of the wonderful bells and whistles, is still flawed. Employers can't find out much at all from a resume, and everyone knows they are really just used dispositively. If I am sifting through 100 resumes to find the ten people I need to interview, those resumes that have typos, or look goofy, or bother me for some other reason get tossed. Now that it's all being done online, there are more resumes to deal with, and you're still left with the nagging possibility that your evaluative criteria (must have 35 years Java development experience!) are excluding a few job hunters who might be perfect for your organization. I really would like to see some sort of combination of social networking and the kind of relationship analysis that dating sites are now embracing. Yes, that sounds absurd, but the psychological dimension of work is extremely important, and people who study relationships are far ahead of most management theorists in understanding how individuals relate to each other.

The factory model is supposedly dead and gone, a relic of the industrial age. Corporate America has moved into a new age where employees are freelancers and companies are scrambling to find the best talent. But how is that struggle defined? Look at Monster.com and see how you are forced to fit yourself into the tidy little boxes that their system requires. I don't think that sort of approach is more than an incremental improvement over the bad old days of searching the want ads every Sunday.

For now, personal networks still trump any other means of finding a job.

I've never had much luck with headhunters. I much prefer a personal contact within the company.

If this person's company is such a pressure cooker, then surely there must be people quitting left and right. My advice would be to stay in touch with these people, perhaps create a LinkedIn account to keep track of where they're headed.

Then, after they've had a chance at a new company, ask them how life is treating them there. If they respect the work you did with them in the past, most likely they'll put your resume in the hands of the person who needs to read it.

Better than talking to a salesman any day.

Network. Email everyone you can (and by can, I mean everyone who won't get mad at you for eamiling them that you need work). Try getting into some networking groups like Friendster and LinkedIn.com.

Get a Blog and start writing in it, and include the fact that your looking for work and your trials and tribulations etc. It worked wonders for Odd Todd and who knows who might read your blog. Of course to advertise you're gonna have to read/post in others blogs. Do so wisely.

Most importantly -- believe that you can make it happen and you will. But the key is you have to make it happen -- otherwise it won't.

Apparently this is going to be big this year.
I wonder how long before MS tries to by linkedin

Some of the comments about DICE are right on, but what about some of the other sites?

I have actually found a couple good positions using monster and careerbuilder.

One of the new trends I am seeing is the use of LinkedIn

Currently I think there are more recruiters on LinkedIn than there are job seekers, but as it grows in popularity being able to directly find either skilled people or jobs could be a good thing. I think it has the potential to bybass the traditional Careerbuilder, Monster, Dice , etc...

Thank god networking stil works and even sites like LinkedIn exist, especially for those of us who have the rare ability of being able to learn practically anything without a need for institutionalized tuition.

I get cold contact requests from these guys on LinkedIn all the time. I imagine if you sign up, you can find them pretty easily too.

They're trying to become more commercial lately, so it's possible the service might become less useful for non-paying members, but no sign of that yet beyond certain new limitations on free "groups" features.

Most importantly, no spam!

But IMHO to get any response in a place like slashdot, you first have to come clean about who you are and what your businesses are. (You may have done so, your post has a lot of links, but it's above my attention span).

If you're looking for people with special qualities applicable to your business, you need to be talking about your business and why you believe in it, and the right people will show because it will resonate with them. There is no place where general-purpose talented people looking for things to do hang out.

I don't think you can find a bunch of "good people" given all the glorious things you've mentioned, then sit them down in the room and finally reveal what the business is about... And even if you do reveal details, most people won't care unless you are specific about what they get in return (e.g. 20% stake).

Another way to deal with this is to hire a headhunter.

The best way to avoid spam lies in not letting anyone you dont know directly or indirectly communicate with you. the rapidly growing pattern of trusted networks: networks formed by invitation only. A great example is Linked In. To ensure appropriateness of the message, the messages are sent back through the same chain of messages. This is as close to interhuman communication as it gets, and is as secure as requesting a favor from a friend's friend. Another example is . If such networks evolve to be a major slice of our online communication presence, then spam will well be on its way out.

Hmmm. I just looked over linkedin and they seem pretty profession-oriented too.

The problem I have in utilizing these things is that while I have a fairly extensive connection network -- having worked for some companies that produced an unusually large number of employees who left to do great stuff, and also freelancing for a while with clients is disparate industries -- I know of no one who would be interested in signing up at these places. So I can't get my contacts to sign up, and so I join and I'm an island with no connections and no referrals or whatever, even though I am a sort of gateway to a lot of small businesses.

While high-tech, most of the businesses I work for or have worked for are small, and run by conservative or even eccentric older guys who are not about to try out something that sounds slightly hippy-fied, such as an online social network. (None of them have any propblem using Open Source, however.)