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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. Lucky me :-) by Wizard+of+OS · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know, I know, I have been extremely lucky :). Exactly one year ago, I was asked to join the internet team of a public broadcaster in the Netherlands. Their sites are based on the Open Source CMS mmbase. Of course, my work doesn't consist of 100% open-source programming, a lot of projects are more based around implementing the CMS for sites then on extending it. Nevertheless, I have been able to write significant bugfixes / applications that have been or will be released under an Open Source license.

    Please don't hurt me now :)

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  2. Re:Put up your resume in HTML and *Word* format? by Brad+Wilson · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep, he's serious. I worked for a company that provided software for recruiters. Bar none, they were interested in Word format resumes ONLY. We took in plain text and HTML, and converted them to Word automatically, which at least gave you a chance (if you stuff converted well).

    Even when the world runs on the web, it's still hobbled by Word. :-p

  3. Re:How I got my last job by Binarybrain · · Score: 2, Informative

    I developed a content management system.

  4. Re:does this happen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    if $t $m then you would be saving the company $m-$t dollars.

    Don't forget that Slashdot doesn't show less/greater than signs by default. Try aphersand lt; next time, & l t; without the spaces.