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On the job market, need some tips
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:05 am
by Zoxive
Basically I'm looking for some advice, and tips on my Resume.
I just redid it the other day, I just need to fix some of the marginal errors from converting it to a pdf.
http://zoxive.com/imgs/Resume.pdf
Some of my SVN Repository's that I'm showing as code examples:
http://67.207.135.237/svn/index.php
Re: On the job market, need some tips
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:10 am
by onion2k
Do you really think managers and recruitment agents are going to be able to get stuff out of SVN to have a look at it?
Re: On the job market, need some tips
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:41 am
by Zoxive
onion2k wrote:Do you really think managers and recruitment agents are going to be able to get stuff out of SVN to have a look at it?
Not quite sure, most job postings I've seen ask for code examples so that's why I have that.
Re: On the job market, need some tips
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:05 am
by onion2k
Zoxive wrote:Not quite sure, most job postings I've seen ask for code examples so that's why I have that.
In my experience recruitment is always done by a manager rather than a technical person. When they say they want code examples, they mean they want a link to a page of your code that they can give to their technical person to look at. If the manager can't find it they'll never pass it to the technical person.
At some larger companies the technical person might be involved in the recruitment process, but it's rare. Using SVN for your coding examples will, in my opinion, limit your chances more than just a vanilla HTML page.
Of course, the best option would be a vanilla html page with a link to the nightly build in SVN...
Re: On the job market, need some tips
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:30 am
by Zoxive
I'm not sure if you looked at it, but you don't have to check out the repository's to see them. I set up a web interface so you can browse them. Usually I just link them to
http://www.zoxive.com for code examples, which have short cuts to it.
But this is why I'm here.
Also what do you mean by Vanilla HTML page?
Re: On the job market, need some tips
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:37 am
by onion2k
If I sent my boss a link to
http://67.207.135.237/svn/listing.php?r ... rev=0&sc=0 he would be completely

and wouldn't have a clue what he was looking at. If you were applying for a job at my company that would get your CV filed to the bin.
What I mean by a 'vanilla' html page is something very plain that contains a code example and very little else ... Basically a title, maybe a little navigation, an explanation about what the code is, and the source. And maybe a link to a working example, and a link to the latest version in SVN if you like.
Re: On the job market, need some tips
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 1:28 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I had a recruiter tell me one time that if I didn't have a CD that had code I could have the company open and read then there would be no use moving any further.
It makes sense to keep a few snippets handy for things like this. I have all sorts of stuff in SVN, but I also have a cd of somethings I have done as well.
And as a side note, to be REALLY prepared, have some of your unit tests already made. Real development shops nowadays are almost always asking for your unit tests as well.