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The Three True Job Interview Questions

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Although this article about Executive Recruiters might not apply directly to you the advice it contains does.

When you’re looking for a job it would do you good to ask yourself these three questions:

1. Can you do the job?
2. Will you love the job?
3. Can we tolerate working with you?

The article goes into a little more detail about what each of those questions entail. But really, the meaning should be self-evident from the questions themselves.

If you answer ‘No’ to even one of those questions then I’d say the job isn’t right for you. And if you take that job you’ll end up leaving it unhappily. You have to pay the bills but you should do your best to make sure you’re happy doing so.

How To Find A Tech Job

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I’m helping a friend find a job. I’ve already gone through the entire job search process and I do not envy the guy. It’s a hard, grueling process but one that when successful is such a rush.

Off the top of my head I shared with him a list of job listing websites I used during my search. These sites are mostly geared toward technology jobs but hopefully it’ll spark an idea of a place to search for a job you haven’t thought of before. Like maybe one of your favorite websites is hiring, or has links towards a website that is hiring.
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New Job At GetGlue

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In the land of Harry things have been mighty busy. He has been away from his lovely blog, out marauding for new land and fresh fruit. He has been searching high above the coastline, cupping his hand above his eyes to shield himself from the sun’s mighty gaze. He stood there atop the cliff, gazing out past everything that he has since come to call familiar. He stood and gazed west, straining his eyes from their sockets, hoping to perceive success just before it broached the horizon.

And how did the sun beat upon his brow! Each un-tamed beam piercing his skin to draw sweat from its pore, their outward push beginning along his perspiring brow. The sun beat – the sweat swam! No relent until dawn when the winds from the south picked up their weight and began their singing song.

Yet it wasn’t long into the month when Success – in all her wonderful fashion – made her triumphant appearance over the divide. She stepped into sight as daylight touched the earth, smiling into the future as sun-rays cascaded around. The last winds of the night picked themselves up and threw themselves into her hair, casting all follicles asunder. And as she looked down from her perception above her eyes locked with Harry’s and time stood still. Magical white nothingness crashed into existence, erasing Harry and Success, leaving behind nothing but a clean whiteness that bleach couldn’t hope to come close.

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It is with great joy that I can announce I have accepted a new job. Starting May 9th of this year I will begin work as Web Developer at GetGlue.com. The past seven months at dLife.com have proven tremendously rewarding however the lull of the future has proven too great to ignore. This next month will prove tremendously tumultuous due to all the changes occurring but please bear with me as I venture forward. Thank you – and thank you – for all of your support over the past couple of months. It would not have been the same without you.

100 Posts and College Graduation

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This post marks two awesome achievements for me: I have, since last Thursday, been a college graduate, and this is my blog’s 100th post. I was going to post about my graduation on Thursday – when it happened – but I delayed it so that it would strike on the 100th post. For a while I was worried it would take me a while to get to this 100th post, and I’d have to make my college graduation post land on post 99, but I managed to make it work.

Looking back at my high school graduation seems so far away. I can still remember that summer, the one before I left for college: it feels like a vivid dream, so distant in memory yet so close in feeling. I’ve spent many nights looking through photos taken that year, and during my college years, with each photo set eliciting memories long dormant. Each photo always bringing about a strong feeling of nostalgia.

And now here I am, five years later, roughed up, shook up, but still standing. I’m a man with a degree, one that will hopefully safely propel me into the next stage of my life. Coming out of five long years of learning, I hope all my work pays off. I can’t stand the thought of all that work being for waste. I don’t think it will be, but the current job market is scary. I’ll be the first to admit that.

So last week I was a student, and this week I’m unemployed. A chapter of my life is now complete, and I’m excited to find out what happens next. College? Check. 100 posts? Check. Future? Let’s go.

Announcing inipsa llc

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I’ve been playing around with web design and development since I was thirteen years old.  That was when I picked up a copy of HTML & CSS For Dummies.  It was also the time of Geocities and HTML3.01.  So many things have changed since then and I’ve done my best to change with them.

That is why I feel that now is a great time to begin offering my skills and services to everyone.  There’s only so many hours in a day that I can spend learning obscure CSS tricks and neat HTML work-arounds.

So, allow me to introduce my web design, web development, general new media service company to you:  inipsa.

It is a word that I made up, one that I hope can find its own meaning as it matures.  So please click over to inipsa’s website (which I designed) and see if I can help you.  Let’s make something!