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By Andy Lester

As a techie, you're a distinct breed, with detailed demanding situations dealing with you within the task seek. Your pageant is sensible, tech-savvy, and hugely innovative. expectancies between employers are greater. Your festival will run you over if you're less than the problem. Land the Tech task You Love promises the heritage, the talents, and the hard-won knowledge to circumvent the error of these who don't prepare.

it's possible you'll now not imagine you would like this publication. traditional knowledge has it that discovering a role is easy: ship a few resumes, pass on a few interviews, and take the provide that sounds most sensible. yet that's just the beginning. You've received the historical past and abilities to paintings the net and different assets that the final task seeker doesn't. This e-book exhibits you ways to use these talents or be left in the back of by means of competing techies who do.

all of it begins with an exam of you, your strengths, and the place you will have your occupation to take you. with out a roadmap, you'll finally end up in any previous task. Life's too brief to spend in a role that you simply don't love. From there, you'll see how to define the activity you will want that matches you and the supplier, utilizing your technical and net savvy to discover the hidden jobs that by no means make it into the classifieds or Monster.

"Marketing" isn't a filthy notice, and you'll how one can current your self, your talents, and your history within the means that indicates the hiring corporation that you're definitely the right individual for the task. Create a resume that tosses out traditional knowledge, write disguise letters that promote your history, and gather a portfolio of labor that might wow the interviewer.

Social networking has been the darling of the internet some time past few years, yet it's no alternative for one of these own interplay that makes relationships that assist in destiny careers. As one supervisor acknowledged, "One advice is worthy one million resumes." This e-book exhibits you the way to make and retain the connections that may force your destiny occupation moves.

Land the Tech activity You Love pulls no punches and lays out the main points for what will get you an interview, and will get you employed in a role within the technical international that makes you cheerful.

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Be honest with yourself in your assessment of what drives you. Maybe it doesn’t matter what the work is if you can’t tell anyone. I have a friend who worked at a major hardware company who was telling me of work she was proud of but she couldn’t show me, because restrictions prohibited her from showing anyone outside of the company. Know your internal motivators. What to know: your internal motivators. 0 printing, May 2009) 44 W HAT M OTIVATES Y OU ? A D OZEN F ACTORS TO C ONSIDER Important Work After my two-month stint at the financial services company, I realized how important it was that my work was fulfilling to me.

You: It was. We even had the head of accounting come over and chew out our team leader because we lost track of a showstopper. I had tried for weeks to get my boss to let us set up an instance of Bugzilla, but he said we couldn’t even think about it until the end of the project. So, I got together with the guy in the next cube and tracked bugs via text files in a Subversion project. It was low-tech, but it saved us some real time. 0 printing, May 2009) 34 M OVING A HEAD Note how here even though your boss has frustrated you, you’ve explained the solution you made happen in spite of it.

0 printing, May 2009) 50 Chapter 3 Résumé Content: Getting the Words Down Conventional wisdom says it’s deceptively simple to write your résumé: figure out your objective, list your college degree, jot down the jobs you’ve had, put some bullet points with “action words” under each job, and slap “references available upon request” at the bottom. If inspiration isn’t coming to you, you can model it on one from a book with a title like 1,001 Résumés for All Occasions. Voilà! You have your résumé! Wrong, wrong, wrong!

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