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How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer

Posted by timothy on from the an-ask-slashdot-faq dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Todd Cranston-Cuebas, tech recruiter for Ticketmaster, offers insider tips and tricks for landing an open-source job -- or for recruiting new talent to your IT staff." Make yourself googleable.

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  1. Its rather simple. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just put it "willing to work for free" in your resume!

    1. Re:Its rather simple. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'll work for free.. I just won't do what you want me to do. But that's okay, if you offer me some cash then we can talk.

  2. Business Plan by The_Rippa · · Score: 1, Funny

    (and now for the obligatory /. business plan)

    1. Send Resume
    2. Wait Patiently
    3. Get job
    4. Profit???

    1. Re:Business Plan by EccentricAnomaly · · Score: 3, Funny

      And be sure to link /. as a favorite technical website on you resume:

      Another thing is to include your favorite technical Web site list in your online resume or personal Web site. I'll look for people who specialize in a certain area -- if they also have a list of favorite Web sites that show their interest in the top Web sites in a certain area, I'll notice that.

      But then again, telling a potential employer that you read a lot of slashdot might not be a good thing :)

      --
      There are 10 types of people in this world, those who can count in binary and those who can't.
    2. Re:Business Plan by shnarez · · Score: 2, Funny
      But then again, telling a potential employer that you read a lot of slashdot might not be a good thing :)
      Depends where you're applying for the job. For instance, if you're applying to Slashdot... oh, wait...
  3. Join The Anti-War On Everything Protest: +1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Before the
    Cheney-Rumsfeld-Kissinger regime imposes martial law in the United States of America.

    For more information: see
    Get Your War On

    Cheers,
    Woot

  4. Arg! You just 404'd my resume! by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gee, thanks! I just submitted my resume for a job at one of the ticketmaster subsidiaries...

    My resume is now lost in a huge, even bigger then usual pile of resumes.

    404 - Career Not Found!

    --
    "Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
  5. Ticketmaster, huh? by X_Caffeine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does he have any tips on running the sort of monopoly that a company like Microsoft could actually take notes from?

    --
    // I will show you fear in a handful of jellybeans.
    1. Re:Ticketmaster, huh? by Jonny+Ringo · · Score: 3, Funny

      I know. But the title of this is not called "How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer and Still Keep Your Ethics". :-)

  6. Sigh - #include by 4of12 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess it's probably just a reflex action against spam-like resume submission (he cites 3000 applicants for a PC support tech), but I have to cringe that resumes get pre-processed by machine.

    Soon applicants will achieve homogeneity in resumes, devoid of any real persona...

    • PHP, 5 years experience
    • MySQL 6 years experience, senior project lead, architect
    • Apache 3.0pre9, principal developer, 9 years experience
    • .NET original architectural team, 15 years experience
    • Java2EE, 23 years experience
    • Linux kernel developer, 497 years experience
    • MCSE since 1954
    • SANS certified since 213 B.C.
    • CCNE since Cheops finished the pyramid
    --
    "Provided by the management for your protection."
  7. Re:Hiring with or without a degree... my thoughts. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    so you can get the pretty and vapid girl so...

    Damn. I knew I messed up somewhere. My girl is absolutely brilliant but not so pretty and she is a pain in my ass. I was supposed to get the pretty and vapid girl. Oh well, that's why I don't believe in marriage. If at first you don't suceed, dump 'em and run.

  8. Einstein of our time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    He solved it! The second to last option was "Get job" all along. Whoda thunk it?!?!?!!!!1

  9. oh please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    be a real man and write some proprietary software.

  10. My new resume by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    This article has excellent advice for writing a resume in this age of Internet search engines. I've already rewritten mine. Here it is:

    Resume Resume Resume Resume Resume

    Java C Windows Windows Motivated C++ C SQL Teamwork C++ Perl C GDI C++ Perl Teamwork Windows Perl SQL SQL Motivated Windows GDI C++ Windows Self-Starter Perl C++ C C++ C++ GDI Motivated Self-Starter Python C++ Java Java C++ Python C++

    Motivated Teamwork Python Motivated C++ Perl Motivated Perl C Java Self-Starter Windows GDI Self-Starter Java GDI Motivated C++ Windows Windows Windows Teamwork Self-Starter GDI Self-Starter C C Windows SQL Windows Python Python GDI Motivated GDI Perl Teamwork SQL Perl Self-Starter Java Python GDI Teamwork Teamwork Motivated Java SQL Windows Perl Teamwork SQL C++

    Self-Starter C++ GDI Java Python Windows Perl C++ GDI Windows Teamwork C GDI Python Perl C++ Perl C C++ Self-Starter Teamwork Motivated Python Java Teamwork Java Motivated Motivated Teamwork Motivated Python Self-Starter Java Python C++ SQL Python Teamwork Python Self-Starter Java Teamwork Teamwork C++ C++ Self-Starter Motivated GDI Motivated Windows Motivated GDI C++ GDI Windows Python Perl C Python Teamwork Python Self-Starter Windows Motivated SQL C++ GDI GDI SQL SQL C Self-Starter C++ Java GDI SQL GDI Self-Starter C Teamwork Motivated Motivated SQL SQL Self-Starter

    Self-Starter Motivated C Teamwork Motivated Teamwork SQL Windows Java Windows C Windows SQL C++ Teamwork Python GDI Java C++ Python GDI

  11. Re:ResumeRank(tm)? by zephc · · Score: 3, Funny

    avoid resumes such as:

    Programming Experience:
    - 68020, 030 Assembler (37 years)
    - Java development (15 years)

    Internet:
    - Website development (20 years)

    MCSE Certified

    --
    "I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
  12. Insider tips and tricks, condensed version by kwertii · · Score: 3, Funny
    • List buzzwords often in your resume.
    • Put your resume online.
    • Already know someone who is hiring.
    • If this is not possible, already know someone who can refer you to someone who is hiring.
  13. FOR GREAT GLORY~!!!! by EnderWiggnz · · Score: 3, Funny

    all your base belong to a beowulf cluster of natalie portman's with hotgrits down their pants

    3) PROFIT!!!

    --
    ... hi bingo ...
  14. How I got my last job by Binarybrain · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sometime during the last few days at my last job I happened to ask my employer why he hired me. The reason was rather caught me by suprise.

    Because I hated Microsoft. Im not kidding. He figured that if I was smart enough to dislike Microsoft that I probably knew what I was talking about.

    1. Re:How I got my last job by The+Bungi · · Score: 3, Funny

      What did you do? Mop the floors?

    2. Re:How I got my last job by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Why would a Taco Bell manager care what you thought about Microsoft?

    3. Re:How I got my last job by sql*kitten · · Score: 2, Funny

      I developed a content management system.

      Emptied the bins, then?

  15. Now hiring OS Developers! by NineNine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Payment:

    I'll buy beer for you and won't tell your parents.

    You get to look at my personal collection of nudie magazines.

    You can code at my office, and tell your parents that you're at a sleepover. I'm an adult. They'll believe me.

    I can pick you up from school, posing as your parents.

    I have a PS2 and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City!

    You can have all of the soda and candy you want.

    Please send resume and/or high score list.

  16. a bit late by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny


    1999: "How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer"

    2001: "How To Get Hired As A Developer"

    2002: "How To Get Hired"

    --
    Table-ized A.I.
  17. An even better one!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    take this resume, cut, paste into your current one, set to a size 4 font, and set text color to white. :)