I confess to being a resume profiler. My primary goal in reviewing a resume is to determine whether or not I might be looking at a great engineer. Unfortunately some of the best engineers with whom I have worked have
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6 Tips To Taking Advantage of the Boom
For those of you who lived through the mid to late 1990s, you should smell something familiar in the Boston air: a technology boom. I know Massachusetts has a 6.7% unemployment rate and is still recovering from the worst
Wanted: Software Architect
Back in the late 1990s I went to a local entrepreneurial event in which a speaker claimed a new startup would fail if it didn’t get its first 15 hires right. I never did ask why 15 ;), but the
State of High Tech Recruiting
Once or twice a week, I get the following inbound phone call: Joe, my name is [name] from [company]. I was referred to you as the vice president of engineering. I saw on your website that you’re hiring, and
5 Signs It May Be Time To Move On
Do you have a valued member of your staff whose learning and passion for their job has diminished? That has started to become less effective the longer they have been in their role? Or that is beginning to see perceived
4 Steps To Finding a Job
In the mid-1990s I was in a startup that licensed the best selling job hunting book, What Color Is Your Parachute?. Our target market was job hunters, and our software was designed to help people find their next job. I