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Go to AsktheHeadHunter.com. He talks about how to check out a company, and
how to ask the right questions to tell what a job is really like (based on a
query from me that I made a couple of years ago).
He has some of the best information about looking for a job, interviewing,
and how much information you should provide to people to avoid identity
theft. He also answers e-mails <grin> with good advice.
His newsletter is well worth reading. I've never failed to get a job I
wanted by following his advice and "doing the job" in the interview.
Gene, I think you will like this guy's point of view.
PT
On 9/28/07, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
>
> What I actually had in mind was a "basic skills test" that
> would magically enable me to determine whether the
> employer knows its business and would not be sinking
> slowly into the sunset a couple of years after one joins
> it, not some sort of new age personality test.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Borokowski" <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com
>
>
> > My only piece of advice here is something I learned from an old
> > contract developer. When you go in for the interview, make sure to
> > screw up a trivial thing at the beginning of the interview, like having
> > a price tag still on your pants or misidentifying the street name you
> > took to get there.
> >
> > If they ignore the error or make too big of a deal about it, they may
> > be focused more on personality than the job itself.
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