How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer

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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Its rather simple.

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Its rather simple.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Arg! You just 404'd my resume!

[stefanlasiewski]

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!

Ticketmaster, huh?

[X_Caffeine]

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

Sigh - #include

[4of12]

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

My new resume

[Waffle Iron]

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

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Now hiring OS Developers!

[NineNine]

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.

a bit late

[Tablizer]

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