His/her job is to know the market. If you know it, then you don't need the head-hunter.
Some places require you to go through an 'approved' vender though. Then you have to find a company that will be willing to only take a small cut if you bring them both the job and the candidate. Here we have a company that does that for a $3/hr cut.
I've worked with a dozen or so head hunters. I've only me one I totally trusted. Good signs for a head-hunter:
1.) Works with you to establish your hourly rate, and the hourly rate he'll bill you at. (Doesn't hide rates.) 2.) No IP agreements. 3.) Reasonable non-competes 4.) How well they treat H1-B people. Do they threaten to deport them if they leave the company? 5.) Have you seen them lie? Do research with other people in the company. Ask pointed questions and see if employee answers match head-hunter answers. 6.) Attitude towards overtime. 7.) No patronizing attitude 8.) Open with what is going on with office politics 9.) Shows you the contract between head-hunter and company you'll go to. 10.) Asks where you want to go with your career
Bottom line, you've got to do your research. Google for people that have worked at the same company and ask them questions.
I worked with a product manager who thought it was a cool idea to release an announcement that we were taking preorders for Product X. If there were enough preorders, we'd make the product. Otherwise the product wasn't worth the business.
Free market research. But that company is all but out of business now.
Never have gotten infected by a virus in 10+ years. I've got a Linux box I can pull the mail into as well, but I can't do scheduling with it, so that is a killer for work.
Yes, I know Evolution supports scheduling, but only if the servers have WebDAV, and for security reasons my company won't enable it.
You get good sales people for that money. Don't ever underestimate the value of good sales people. As developers, we may not like them. But their job is to push a product, and if you are selling a product, that is a really good thing.
I'm taking Ph.D. classes at the University of Idaho Engineering Outreach. They send you DVD's of the live class, and you follow 1-2 weeks later. The 800 number to the instructor and email to the class and instructor work well.
I've heard good things about Univ of Pheonix, but last I checked, they don't offer Ph.D.s in Computer Science.
What I don't like about U of Idaho is how fast the papers come back to you graded. (Sometimes a month or so, depends on the instructor.) At first I was upset about it, and now I just figure that is how distance learning at the school works.
I've got only 18 hrs worth of Ph.D. work. It would be better to work off a local university, but if you don't have the option, this isn't bad too. The classes are entertaining and educational.
I've also heard it is a good idea to make sure that the instructors haven't graduated from the university they teach at. Inbreeding is a bad thing.
I tried putting JDO in an app I was using. Seemed pretty cool initially. The OQL through me off at first. Despite being around for a really long time (10+ years), there was little documentation on the Object Query Language.
This got me into what I thought was the biggest problem. Too much abstration. JDO ran too slow for me. And rather than making things simple, it made them more complex.
Bottom line: Object databased and query languages have been around for a long time. Few people use the, prefering the relational model. Despite the fact that Object databases are sexy. There is a reason for the fact there are few apps built this way.
I like server beach. For $99 you get root access of a RedHat box and can do what you like with it.
I can't tell you about there support though. I've never had to call them. But I did have a quick turnaround on the phone when I ordered the service though, and it was up a lot faster than they said it would be.
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I work at a bank. Recently I asked the security team how they prevent this.
They set up wireless sniffers at the sites and those packets go to a central monitoring system. So if you put up a WAP, they get alerted and can track you down. They even send out people to practice this to make sure it works.
If you get caught, you get your walking papers. More than one person has left the bank this way.
I use this for an interview question now when looking for new employees.
Back when I was consulting, I worked for a company A that held large numbers of personal records for another company B. The company B wanted to implement a sign-on that wasn't secure. A brute force attach could gain entry to the entire company's records.
Despite objections of Company B, Company A insisted on the insecure sign-on. So company B, where I was a consultant, implemented it. (Later Company A's security review people rejected it, so it never went on-line.)
The question that came out of it, if you were a consultant and ordered to implement something insecure, would you? If I deliver the question correctly, most of the people I interview say they would do as I ask. Even if it would expose the records of hundreds of thousands of people.
Faced with losing your job, or the possibility of compromising other peoples records, most people choose the job.
In the case of this job, I chose to hit the road and never regretted it.
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His/her job is to know the market. If you know it, then you don't need the head-hunter.
Some places require you to go through an 'approved' vender though. Then you have to find a company that will be willing to only take a small cut if you bring them both the job and the candidate. Here we have a company that does that for a $3/hr cut.
I've worked with a dozen or so head hunters. I've only me one I totally trusted. Good signs for a head-hunter:
1.) Works with you to establish your hourly rate, and the hourly rate he'll bill you at. (Doesn't hide rates.)
2.) No IP agreements.
3.) Reasonable non-competes
4.) How well they treat H1-B people. Do they threaten to deport them if they leave the company?
5.) Have you seen them lie? Do research with other people in the company. Ask pointed questions and see if employee answers match head-hunter answers.
6.) Attitude towards overtime.
7.) No patronizing attitude
8.) Open with what is going on with office politics
9.) Shows you the contract between head-hunter and company you'll go to.
10.) Asks where you want to go with your career
Bottom line, you've got to do your research. Google for people that have worked at the same company and ask them questions.
Which Romana? Romana I or Romana II? Number two was pretty hot. Click here for a good list of assistants and photos.
Now when we say our battery died, we'll mean it literally.
You can see a photo of the fish here.
So would "XBoss" refer to a branch of JBoss, or would it refer to Fleury their ex-boss?
Also requires WebDAV. I bought the connector before I figured that out. Our company doesn't use WebDAV because of security concerns.
Free market research. But that company is all but out of business now.
I'm finding that there is a lot of reuse going on in academics. I talk to professors who see the same papers over and over...
Never have gotten infected by a virus in 10+ years. I've got a Linux box I can pull the mail into as well, but I can't do scheduling with it, so that is a killer for work.
Yes, I know Evolution supports scheduling, but only if the servers have WebDAV, and for security reasons my company won't enable it.
If it can't sync with Outlook to get my appointments and contacts, I'd have to say no thanks.
You get good sales people for that money. Don't ever underestimate the value of good sales people. As developers, we may not like them. But their job is to push a product, and if you are selling a product, that is a really good thing.
I'm taking Ph.D. classes at the University of Idaho Engineering Outreach. They send you DVD's of the live class, and you follow 1-2 weeks later. The 800 number to the instructor and email to the class and instructor work well.
I've heard good things about Univ of Pheonix, but last I checked, they don't offer Ph.D.s in Computer Science.
What I don't like about U of Idaho is how fast the papers come back to you graded. (Sometimes a month or so, depends on the instructor.) At first I was upset about it, and now I just figure that is how distance learning at the school works.
I've got only 18 hrs worth of Ph.D. work. It would be better to work off a local university, but if you don't have the option, this isn't bad too. The classes are entertaining and educational.
I've also heard it is a good idea to make sure that the instructors haven't graduated from the university they teach at. Inbreeding is a bad thing.
So did you like Documentum?
It was Ashley Judd in "The Game". She was also in another episode too. I agree, 'Clever' did at least have some job perks.
If you remember BBS's, you are too old to be posting on Slashdot.
I was thinking of Castor JDO. Thank you, you are wise.
I tried putting JDO in an app I was using. Seemed pretty cool initially. The OQL through me off at first. Despite being around for a really long time (10+ years), there was little documentation on the Object Query Language.
This got me into what I thought was the biggest problem. Too much abstration. JDO ran too slow for me. And rather than making things simple, it made them more complex.
Bottom line: Object databased and query languages have been around for a long time. Few people use the, prefering the relational model. Despite the fact that Object databases are sexy. There is a reason for the fact there are few apps built this way.
So when I send my mother in law a picture, you expect me to step her though a 'save as' procedure?
She once dragged her precious solitare program off the start menu. She called me in a complete tizzy. It was not fun trying to get that set up again.
Yes, I know, rdesktop, right? She's dial-up. And like I want to step her though finding out what IP address she's on.
It would be great to screen the boyfriends my daughter brings home. I could set curfew based upon the 'horney level' of the boyfriend.
I like server beach. For $99 you get root access of a RedHat box and can do what you like with it.
I can't tell you about there support though. I've never had to call them. But I did have a quick turnaround on the phone when I ordered the service though, and it was up a lot faster than they said it would be.
I work at a bank. Recently I asked the security team how they prevent this.
They set up wireless sniffers at the sites and those packets go to a central monitoring system. So if you put up a WAP, they get alerted and can track you down. They even send out people to practice this to make sure it works.
If you get caught, you get your walking papers. More than one person has left the bank this way.
Of course it runs hot. It's a Porsche.
I use this for an interview question now when looking for new employees.
Back when I was consulting, I worked for a company A that held large numbers of personal records for another company B. The company B wanted to implement a sign-on that wasn't secure. A brute force attach could gain entry to the entire company's records.
Despite objections of Company B, Company A insisted on the insecure sign-on. So company B, where I was a consultant, implemented it. (Later Company A's security review people rejected it, so it never went on-line.)
The question that came out of it, if you were a consultant and ordered to implement something insecure, would you? If I deliver the question correctly, most of the people I interview say they would do as I ask. Even if it would expose the records of hundreds of thousands of people.
Faced with losing your job, or the possibility of compromising other peoples records, most people choose the job.
In the case of this job, I chose to hit the road and never regretted it.
There is always the, "Mom, I need to be picked up at Nancy's." Now mom knows exactly where that is at.
If a kid didn't want to be tracked? Easy to get around. But if a person did want you to find them, this is a nice feature.
I fly hot air balloons. Now I use amateur radio to send my location. This would be much more convenient for people tracking me.