#careers (94 links)
Bit of a scare-story headline but some decent points here.
- Roome Consulting roome.co.uk
Digital media recruiters near Old Street.
- An Entirely Other Day - Wide vs. Deep blog.eod.com
Some people are naturally wide, some people are naturally deep. But the assumption is, in most business contexts, that you can — and should want to — jump between the two as the need or situation dictates. But this is a load of crap.
- Why I won't work on another campaign microsite - Dan Eastwell thoughtballoon.co.uk
or why I won't, until the money runs out...
The digital skills that job seekers must have and that hiring organizations demand are varied, nuanced and cutting-edge.
- 25 Reasons You Didn’t Get The Gig : Freelance Folder freelancefolder.com
Some personal observations, reasons I probably would click away, not hire someone, not call back.
Despite waves of consolidation across the ad-agency business, there remains a healthy bunch of independent digital shops doing everything from search optimization to building web interfaces to simply doing damn good creative.
- A List Apart: Articles: Findings From the Web Design Survey alistapart.com
The first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
Seek to be a double/triple/quadruple threat.
- George Dinwiddie’s blog » Studying patterns for Fearless Change blog.gdinwiddie.com
3×5 notecards for studying the patterns in the book, Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
- 10 mistakes managers make during job interviews articles.techrepublic.com.com
"Conducting effective interviews requires a balance of instinct, insight, and some solid preparation. It also helps if you don't make certain blunders, such as monopolizing the conversation, asking leading questions, or applying too much (or too little) p
- Geek | Manager » Invest in Yourself blog.geekmanager.co.uk
"In terms of your career, this means that you should be setting aside time for training and development — some of which is focused on making you better at your current job and some of which is focused on getting you towards the next step in your career
- Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Refactoring Your Career « webworkerdaily.com
Here’s a catalog of career refactorings you can apply to help move yourself towards your own vision of what you want to be doing next.
- Transitioning from User Experience to Product Management - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Becoming a product manager is a logical move for many UX practitioners, as it requires many of the same skills, traits, and competencies involved in crafting a user experience. Additionally, product management is a common role within many organizations, m
Point 5: " Web development is a precise field. Leaving out one character of code can render an entire website useless. Good web developers always focus on making sure they understand and deliver things as accurate as possible."
Some information [regarding what] people are actually expecting from a good web developer.
- How to Change the World: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn blog.guykawasaki.com
A top-ten list of ways to increase the value of LinkedIn.
- Authentic Jobs ~ Full-time and freelance job opportunities for designers and developers authenticjobs.com
Authentic Jobs is a targeted destination for standards-aware designers and developers and the companies seeking to hire them.
Don't be afraid, little sufferer of ADD.... there is hope. Get the f*ck out of the boxes!
- Software by Rob : Becoming a Better Developer Part 9: How to Criticize a Software Developer Without Getting Punched softwarebyrob.com
The #1 rule of good criticism is be specific.
- The best way to professionally raise my rates? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
Independent contractor filter: what is the best way to simultaneously raise my rates and not lose the business?
- 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job stevepavlina.com
- Garrett Dimon / The Time is Now for Front-End Architects garrettdimon.com
Missed this first time round: "The web needs more front-end architects before poor implementations of front-end technology hobble the potential benefits of recent advances."
The list is not specific to any particular type of development position, but I tried to balance it between both the design/html/usability side of things and the back-end/database/programming side.
- pricing (27 October 2005, Interconnected) interconnected.org
Charge more if there's a lot of value being extracted, if the work is dull, and if there's risk involved; charge less if the work takes the company in good directions, if it's really interesting, and if it's for people we like.
- The Lazy Way to Success: Finding Your Calling lazyway.blogs.com
- gilest.org: Practical tips for freelancers gilest.org
Handy tips from Giles
- Garrett Dimon / About Going Solo garrettdimon.com
- An Artsy Fartsy Weblog: Top Ten Ways to handle Bad Clients sthig.typepad.com
If you are a freelance or small Web design firm, I have an uncomfortable question to ask you: are you thinking too small?
- What Should I Do With My Life? (by Jeremy Zawodny) jeremy.zawodny.com
- Hiring Technical People jrothman.com
Use the tips here to hire better, or find a new job.
- Subtraction: Get on My Good Side subtraction.com
a short, non-definitive list of things that have made interviews go well — for me