I’m not a gear head by any means. Though I do know more about diesels now that I did two years ago. I love my Jetta TDI! The one thing I’ve always know about cars is you have to maintain them to keep them running well. Or in some cases, running at all. The one…
Category: Career Development
10 Ways to Use Twitter to Get Recruiters’ Attention
I’m very excited that I can finally share with you all the fact that I’ve begun writing for Salary.com! The plan is to move much of my career development posts over to their site. In the mean time, I’ll continue posting topics here as well as at Salary. If you can check my posts there…
SQL Jobs Outlook–Awesome!
I know they’ve just released the Job numbers for April. And yes, it’s a mixed bag of news. While we added a lot of new jobs this month, we’re still showing a high unemployment rate. While I’m not going to debate any of these numbers, I would like you to turn to your personal job…
Building a Better Relationship With Recruiters
Help me help you. (you’ll have to login to see the clip…it’s consideredmatuuuuure) Help Me Help You Jerry Maguire at MOVIECLIPS.com During my career I’ve had an inconsistent relationship with recruiters. I’ve worked with some really awesome recruiters. They spent the time to get to know me, they learned what I wanted in a job. …
Handling Failure
I know it’s been said, you don’t know how good you are at your job until you handle failure. I’m not going to say I’m perfect at my job, but I did have to handle some pretty bad failure yesterday. It began early in April. We’d been receive some odd error messages with CommVault and…
I’m a MCITP, now what?
It’s been a few days shy of two months since I got my MCTS: SQL Server 2008, Database Development, I passed the 70-51. As a result, I’m now a MCITP: Database developer. I’ve been pushing pretty hard to get this one out of the way so I can begin my training for the administrator track. …
My Journal and Career Maintenance
This week in twitter I’ve participated in discussions on resumes and how to construct them and how to improve them. Most of us only really think about our resume when we find ourselves needing them. We’ve either just ended a contract, or we’re looking to improve our position. As a result, changes and improvements are…
What questions do you have for me?
This might be my last interview question I cover for a while. It’s been a great run, but there are so many more topics in career development I want to cover. If you have any tough interview questions you’d like me to cover, please send them in, and I’ll discuss them here. For now, let’s…
What salary range are you looking for?
I’ve had more anxiety about this question, or some variation of this question, than any other in the interview process. When you need the job, you’re afraid to ask too much. But after you get a job where you did lower your asking price, you have to deal with the fact you’re then underpaid. How…
Tell me about a time when…
During many of the interviews I’ve been in, I’ll be asked a very open ended question. To me this kind of question will give the interviewer some insight into how well you can summarize a larger topic into a brief, but informative comment. This skill can be very important for knowledge workers. Think about how…