I've worked with three companies since about '96 -- both as employer and employee, and found them to be extremely diligent. Most recently I landed an extremely good full time position at an excellent salary doing work on an interesting project. The recruiter who placed me still checks in occasionally with me and others she's placed at this company.
I am certain their are incompetent, and sometimes even deceitful recruiters out there, just as there are bad people in any field, luckily I haven't been hooked by one.
In the boom times of the late nineties, recruiters were everyone's buddies, often landing job-switchers with plum assignments at higher salaries. In the bust, even the good ones have got a bad rap - not returning emails and calls, failing to respond to resumes and correspondence, etc.
But look, IT recruiting is affected as much by the current economic cycle as developers, sysadmins, projects managers, and the rest.
At least one of the good ones I've worked with has switched careers, as business dried up. Others still have to sift through hundreds of resumes, emails, calls, and match those to a dwindling number of opportunities. It's only marginally easier to get a recruiters attention than a prospective employers these days, so how about this:
Practice selling yourself like the valuable resource you are. Here are some things that worked for me:
* Really think about your resume, don't just slap it together, and don't forget that formatting counts. Get some help from someone more experienced if you need to.
* Don't just fire off blind emails - whether to employers or recruiters, tailor your email to the person/position of interest. Where possible, follow up with a snail-mail letter and hard-copy of your resume.
* If a phone number is provided, wait a while for your email to get in, then follow up with a call - if you can a message system, leave your full name, the position of interest, and your phone number. Take time to express some genuine interest, even if just on the recording.
* If you have experience, compile a portfolio, include a brief description of the projects you've worked on, what technologies were employed, and some personal touches like why they were of interest to you, or what provided motivation for particular design-choices. If you have screen-shots, even better, put 'em with the write-ups.
* Place your portfolio, resume, and a skills summary on the web in an attractive format and include the URL in all your correspondence.
One more thing: Have trouble in social situations, expressing yourself to non-tech people, public-speaking? No matter, so do a lot of people, you're not alone. You can either change or expect that IT people with those skills may beat you out of opportunities. Take a public-speaking or debate course at a community college and practice. If you find yourself calling end-users 'lusers', think GUIs are for wimps, or get impatient with your grandma 'cause she can't ssh into your linux box, you need to pay close attention to what I've just said.
None of this will gurantee you'll always find honest, helpful recruiters, but at least you'll get their attention, if they're out there.
I have been looking at one of these for a while. I make up dream configurations using the Shuttle Barebones system and then price out the components from Overclockers or TekHeads.
They seem to solve a lot of problems that conventional systems are plagued with. Cooling a large box, noise generated by the cooling systems, space used by the server sitting under your desk. I was originally looking at rack mount systems but these Small Form Factor PC's have the added advantage of portability. Perfect for LAN Parties.
In addition they retain standard PC components, so you are not thrust into the expensive world of laptop computing. I did that for a while and got tired of paying double for everything.
Howver, currently I have the server under the desk. The major problem is the storage space of these boxes but if I can find an external storage system that suits, I am definitely going small form factor.
I mean just think about if for a second. Glowing fish. Now how long do you think you're going to survive if you're glowing like a neon sign saying "Eat Me" (this is where Slashdot should support the blink tag:). Bioluminescent fish do exist yes, but they can turn it off at times of danger (from what I remember)... these fish can't... they are evolutionary mistakes. Selection of the fittest will take care of it. Mind you I'm very wary of importing fish etc because what seems like a harmless thing can end up in your rivers as a self reproducing curse... but that's almost another issue.
We all know that it is a sin for a Taliban male to see any woman other than his wife naked, and that he must commit suicide if he does.
So this Saturday at 4:00 PM Eastern time all American women are asked to walk out of their house completely naked to help weed out any neighborhood terrorists. Circling your block for one hour is recommended for this anti- terrorist effort.
All men are to position themselves in lawn chairs in front of their house to prove they are not Taliban, and to demonstrate that they think its okay to see nude women other than their wife and to show support for all American women. And since the Taliban also does not approve of alcohol, a cold six-pack at your side is further proof of your anti-Taliban sentiment.
The American Government appreciates your efforts to root out terrorists and applauds your participation in this anti-terrorist activity.
Easy, just seperate the 'sacremental unions' (i.e. Marriage) from the civil unions.
Change the process of applying for a 'Marriage license' to applying for a 'Civil Union' license.
If you want to get 'married' do it in a church. And the fags can still get their financial, insurance, etc. benefits. They will still be comdemmed to hell according to the laws of most major religions....
Why in the hell does every post mentioning the word 'Union' get modded as Troll?
Unions are an excellent method for oppressed workers to get their voices heard and improve their work environments.
Sure there are crooked unions out there, but a good union works to both the benefit of the employer and employee. It sure helped out my Dad, who was a member of the UAW for 30+ years.
This is nothing but a PR move for Microsoft. It makes them look they are the good guys fighting against spam. Give me a break. Are they donating the $ for NY lawyers to prosecute these guys?
This Australian beetle really is a gem: the greenish scales on its back are identical to opal.
Andrew Parker, a former researcher at the Australian Museum, was amazed when he examined the internal structure of the scales under a powerful microscope and realised it was the same as that of the precious stone.
"This is the first time opal has been found in animals," said Dr Parker, who is now at Oxford University in Britain.
The find could lead to a new method for synthesising opals, not only for use in jewellery, but as components, known as photonic crystals, for the computers of the future, which will rely on the movement of light.
The beetle, Pachyrhynchus argus, is commonly found in the rainforests of north-eastern Queensland. Its particular pattern of patches of metallic gleam had probably evolved to make it recognisable to other members of its species in the dim light under the forest canopy, Dr Parker said. "The optical effect created by this weevil makes it appear strongly coloured, whatever angle you look at it."
The discovery is published today in the journal Nature.
The colour of most opals, and the beetle's scales, is the result of light being reflected from layers of transparent spheres, packed in a precise hexagonal pattern.
The beetle reflects only one colour because all of its nano-spheres are exactly the same size - about 250 nanometres across (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre) - whereas multi-coloured opals have a range of different sized nano-spheres.
Dr Parker said that although liquid opals were easy to make, synthesising solid ones was notoriously difficult. His team has begun to try to fathom how the beetle creates an opal-like structure using the chemical "factories" inside its cells.
"If we can emulate the weevil's means of opal production this would represent a technological breakthrough, particularly since opal, as a photonic crystal, has numerous industrial applications," he said.
Scientists have already had some success copying nature, recently creating artificial mother of pearl by mimicking the way abalones build up nanolayers of different materials to make their shells.
But the beetle's method for making perfect opals posed a bigger challenge than this, because it probably used clever pieces of tiny machinery, such as molecular motors, and templates to extrude the nano-spheres, Dr Parker said.
Absolutely, Give me PERL/CGI over WebSphere anyday. In fact, compiling code for an interpreter is laughable. Java should be a scripting language. Compiling millions of lines of Java is such a joke it is no longer realistic with Makefiles. You have to use ANT which doesn't support any other platform. The benefits of a scripting langauge far outweigh the benefits of byte code in my opinion. My experience with the WebSphere is that the web application claims over CGI are exaggerated especially with regards to performance. Furhtermore, the expenses of porting from WebSphere 2.0, 3.0 to 4.0 are far greater than any other C porting expense I've had to date. Java may be write once, run anywhere, but Java/XML/JSP/XSL/XSLT code written for application servers is not. The switch to EAR, WAR and J2EE was expensive with no discernable payoff. Web application servers are a waste of time because the standards change so fast. However, 1/2 million lines of C/CGI scripts written 7 years ago compile on Solaris, AIX, and Linux with only one person spending two-weeks porting code that is still run in production today. Because ANSI C is a mature standard it is far closer to "write once, run anywhere" than Java is if the authors of the C code know it needs to run on multiple platforms and stay within the ANSI C/ POSIX universe.
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I've worked with three companies since about '96 -- both as employer and employee, and found them to be extremely diligent. Most recently I landed an extremely good full time position at an excellent salary doing work on an interesting project. The recruiter who placed me still checks in occasionally with me and others she's placed at this company.
I am certain their are incompetent, and sometimes even deceitful recruiters out there, just as there are bad people in any field, luckily I haven't been hooked by one.
In the boom times of the late nineties, recruiters were everyone's buddies, often landing job-switchers with plum assignments at higher salaries. In the bust, even the good ones have got a bad rap - not returning emails and calls, failing to respond to resumes and correspondence, etc.
But look, IT recruiting is affected as much by the current economic cycle as developers, sysadmins, projects managers, and the rest.
At least one of the good ones I've worked with has switched careers, as business dried up. Others still have to sift through hundreds of resumes, emails, calls, and match those to a dwindling number of opportunities. It's only marginally easier to get a recruiters attention than a prospective employers these days, so how about this:
Practice selling yourself like the valuable resource you are. Here are some things that worked for me:
* Really think about your resume, don't just slap it together, and don't forget that formatting counts. Get some help from someone more experienced if you need to.
* Don't just fire off blind emails - whether to employers or recruiters, tailor your email to the person/position of interest. Where possible, follow up with a snail-mail letter and hard-copy of your resume.
* If a phone number is provided, wait a while for your email to get in, then follow up with a call - if you can a message system, leave your full name, the position of interest, and your phone number. Take time to express some genuine interest, even if just on the recording.
* If you have experience, compile a portfolio, include a brief description of the projects you've worked on, what technologies were employed, and some personal touches like why they were of interest to you, or what provided motivation for particular design-choices. If you have screen-shots, even better, put 'em with the write-ups.
* Place your portfolio, resume, and a skills summary on the web in an attractive format and include the URL in all your correspondence.
One more thing: Have trouble in social situations, expressing yourself to non-tech people, public-speaking? No matter, so do a lot of people, you're not alone. You can either change or expect that IT people with those skills may beat you out of opportunities. Take a public-speaking or debate course at a community college and practice. If you find yourself calling end-users 'lusers', think GUIs are for wimps, or get impatient with your grandma 'cause she can't ssh into your linux box, you need to pay close attention to what I've just said.
None of this will gurantee you'll always find honest, helpful recruiters, but at least you'll get their attention, if they're out there.
This could be used in airports to 'interview' foreigners trying to enter the U.S.
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That rock looks suspicioulsy like a petrified road apple. Maybe Mars once had horse or cow like mammals?
I have been looking at one of these for a while. I make up dream configurations using the Shuttle Barebones system and then price out the components from Overclockers or TekHeads.
They seem to solve a lot of problems that conventional systems are plagued with. Cooling a large box, noise generated by the cooling systems, space used by the server sitting under your desk. I was originally looking at rack mount systems but these Small Form Factor PC's have the added advantage of portability. Perfect for LAN Parties.
In addition they retain standard PC components, so you are not thrust into the expensive world of laptop computing. I did that for a while and got tired of paying double for everything.
Howver, currently I have the server under the desk. The major problem is the storage space of these boxes but if I can find an external storage system that suits, I am definitely going small form factor.
I would have named it Black vs White, but then I would have been labeled a racist or something.
I don't really see the problem here.
:). Bioluminescent fish do exist yes, but they can turn it off at times of danger (from what I remember) ... these fish can't ... they are evolutionary mistakes. Selection of the fittest will take care of it. Mind you I'm very wary of importing fish etc because what seems like a harmless thing can end up in your rivers as a self reproducing curse ... but that's almost another issue.
I mean just think about if for a second. Glowing fish. Now how long do you think you're going to survive if you're glowing like a neon sign saying "Eat Me" (this is where Slashdot should support the blink tag
Why is this story important? And why does this story, Domain suspended keep getting rejected and ignored by the Slashdot editors? Oh the humanity!
I want my COBOL compiler for OS X!!
Could it be?
Praise be to Allah!
We all know that it is a sin for a Taliban male to see any woman other than his wife naked, and that he must commit suicide if he does.
So this Saturday at 4:00 PM Eastern time all American women are asked to walk out of their house completely naked to help weed out any neighborhood terrorists. Circling your block for one hour is recommended for this anti-
terrorist effort.
All men are to position themselves in lawn chairs in front of their house to prove they are not Taliban, and to demonstrate that they think its okay to see nude women other than their wife and to show support for all American women. And since the Taliban also does not approve of alcohol, a cold six-pack at your side is further proof of your anti-Taliban sentiment.
The American Government appreciates your efforts to root out terrorists and applauds your participation in this anti-terrorist activity.
God bless America!!
IT IS YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY TO PASS THIS ON
I remember watching the Computer Chronicles on PBS way back. It was a great show!
And this is important why?
Easy, just seperate the 'sacremental unions' (i.e. Marriage) from the civil unions.
Change the process of applying for a 'Marriage license' to applying for a 'Civil Union' license.
If you want to get 'married' do it in a church. And the fags can still get their financial, insurance, etc. benefits. They will still be comdemmed to hell according to the laws of most major religions....
Why in the hell does every post mentioning the word 'Union' get modded as Troll?
Unions are an excellent method for oppressed workers to get their voices heard and improve their work environments.
Sure there are crooked unions out there, but a good union works to both the benefit of the employer and employee. It sure helped out my Dad, who was a member of the UAW for 30+ years.
I got first post! And I'm on vacation for 2 weeks after today! Take that muthas!
This is nothing but a PR move for Microsoft. It makes them look they are the good guys fighting against spam. Give me a break. Are they donating the $ for NY lawyers to prosecute these guys?
This Australian beetle really is a gem: the greenish scales on its back are identical to opal. Andrew Parker, a former researcher at the Australian Museum, was amazed when he examined the internal structure of the scales under a powerful microscope and realised it was the same as that of the precious stone. "This is the first time opal has been found in animals," said Dr Parker, who is now at Oxford University in Britain. The find could lead to a new method for synthesising opals, not only for use in jewellery, but as components, known as photonic crystals, for the computers of the future, which will rely on the movement of light. The beetle, Pachyrhynchus argus, is commonly found in the rainforests of north-eastern Queensland. Its particular pattern of patches of metallic gleam had probably evolved to make it recognisable to other members of its species in the dim light under the forest canopy, Dr Parker said. "The optical effect created by this weevil makes it appear strongly coloured, whatever angle you look at it." The discovery is published today in the journal Nature. The colour of most opals, and the beetle's scales, is the result of light being reflected from layers of transparent spheres, packed in a precise hexagonal pattern. The beetle reflects only one colour because all of its nano-spheres are exactly the same size - about 250 nanometres across (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre) - whereas multi-coloured opals have a range of different sized nano-spheres. Dr Parker said that although liquid opals were easy to make, synthesising solid ones was notoriously difficult. His team has begun to try to fathom how the beetle creates an opal-like structure using the chemical "factories" inside its cells. "If we can emulate the weevil's means of opal production this would represent a technological breakthrough, particularly since opal, as a photonic crystal, has numerous industrial applications," he said. Scientists have already had some success copying nature, recently creating artificial mother of pearl by mimicking the way abalones build up nanolayers of different materials to make their shells. But the beetle's method for making perfect opals posed a bigger challenge than this, because it probably used clever pieces of tiny machinery, such as molecular motors, and templates to extrude the nano-spheres, Dr Parker said.
Does SQL Server CE support items like stored procedures and triggers? Not much good if it does not.
All those who have repsonded to this thread are in very real danger of having their moderation privileges permantly revoked my Michael.
Absolutely, Give me PERL/CGI over WebSphere anyday. In fact, compiling code for an interpreter is laughable. Java should be a scripting language. Compiling millions of lines of Java is such a joke it is no longer realistic with Makefiles. You have to use ANT which doesn't support any other platform. The benefits of a scripting langauge far outweigh the benefits of byte code in my opinion. My experience with the WebSphere is that the web application claims over CGI are exaggerated especially with regards to performance. Furhtermore, the expenses of porting from WebSphere 2.0, 3.0 to 4.0 are far greater than any other C porting expense I've had to date. Java may be write once, run anywhere, but Java/XML/JSP/XSL/XSLT code written for application servers is not. The switch to EAR, WAR and J2EE was expensive with no discernable payoff. Web application servers are a waste of time because the standards change so fast.
However, 1/2 million lines of C/CGI scripts written 7 years ago compile on Solaris, AIX, and Linux with only one person spending two-weeks porting code that is still run in production today. Because ANSI C is a mature standard it is far closer to "write once, run anywhere" than Java is if the authors of the C code know it needs to run on multiple platforms and stay within the ANSI C/ POSIX universe.
I've borrowed CD's (both audio and data) and DVD's from the local library and about 50% of them have bad scratches on them.
Burning your own at the library would be the way to go.
record and share PS2 porn with your friends! We just got another file-sharing network for pron!
I doubt if Warhol would have bothered. He had already had his 15 minutes of fame.....