Category: career

In my last post, I started exploring things I’ve heard from job-seekers that arise more from anxiety and lack of experience than fact. In this essay I wanted to continue that line…

According to medical experts, people believe superstitions in order to produce “a false sense of having control over outer conditions, and reduce anxiety. This is also why superstitions are prevalent in conditions…

Three sentences into the technician’s explanation, I’d already decided to tell him to give it up as a bad job, return the machine to the customer, and tell them it they needed…

Recently, someone I’ve been helping find their first tech role landed a job after several months of searching. After a bit of celebration and the usual bout of “am I really good…

Recently someone asked me if one of the jobs I had shared (something I do every week) was open to remote folks. While I work hard to ensure my weekly list of…

In the course of talking about job hunting with friends, colleagues, randos in slack, and elsewhere, I end up talking about resumes. A lot. There is, (in my (not so) humble) opinion,…

When the interview comes to the “do you have any questions for me?” part, your best use of time is to try to uncover things that would cause you to absolutely say…

A post over on LinkedIn got me thinking, which got me writing. No, I don’t. I’ve been working in tech for 35 years, in all that time, I’ve never observed very many…

In last week’s post, as I was talking about job descriptions, I asked a question I feel is key to a successful job search: “Do you like the company because of it’s culture,…

Last week I was talking about job applications and not holding yourself back by saying “no” pre-emptively. I started to dive into job descriptions before realizing they deserved their own post. Which is…