Job applications
I applied for a job running out the door to the ferry yesterday morning, and another just now.
This one I just applied for was with Soft Landing. Funny, lots of the positions I am looking at are actually similar to Phenomenal, they're just farther along the success curve already. I'm very much writing stuff in the cover letters as I see them. That is, I'm certainly not interested in hawking Microsoft-only solutions.
I very much enjoy jobs that actively list "must keep abreast of current technology trends" as part of the job description. I do it anyway, so it is nice to actually see it as "officially" part of the job.
The one in particular that mentioned that was an IT analyst/senior consultant at KPMG. Since Mike Kerfoot works there, I'll have to catch up with him and perhaps get him to submit my resume internally.
I don't think much of the chances of getting jobs just by applying online through Monster or Workopolis (note to self: get address of Vancouver-based tech job board from Evan), but it's something to get in the groove with for now and it certainly doesn't hurt. I'm confident that I can be impressive if I actually get an interview, but that's the tough part when you're only interacting with a computer.
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http://www.brendonwilson.com/profile/000120.shtml
brendon wrote about it already.
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This is the one
TechVibes is the one I was thinking of. Although it seems like their stupid job listing app is broken -- I can't seem to filter on anything, which means that jobs from everywhere are mixed in. This is using Safari, Mozilla, and IE5 all on the Mac, so maybe they conveniently made it Windows only JavaScript...
Nope
It was something else. You forwarded it to me, or ICQ'd me with it. Some other BC/Vancouver-focused site. I'll check some archives (the computer arrived this evening).
The T-net one sucks pretty harshly -- it's frames-based, and even worse, there is no way to link to an individual job. So, if you want to forward a job to someone, you have to say "Go to this link. Click 'next' until you get to jobs 21-30. Scroll down and look for the name like this. Click on details".
Wasn't Brendon going to approach them with an idea for re-doing the site? As we talked about the other night, this is again the kind of thing that would be worth my time to do an entire sample site, saying -- "This is how good your site could be".