I’m writing about a post a week for ITJobBlog. I’ve already written a couple of posts about how to develop your interview skills when you’re a candidate, part 1 and part 2. Please join us over there, too!
Add comment August 27th, 2008
Some of my readers appear to be new to reading and commenting on blogs. Here’s how I manage my comments:
I don’t take ads on this blog, by design. I am happy to have people with content-ful (or even partially content-ful!) comments to post their urls in their comments. But don’t just take comment space to advertise to my readers. I won’t approve those comments, and I will not let you do it.
Back to the real topics now.
1 comment August 15th, 2008
I’ve converted to WordPress as my blogging platform and now have changed the URL for the blog and the feed. You can see this post because of magical redirection.
The URL is now http://jrothman.com/blog/htp.
The feed is now http://jrothman.com/blog/htp/feed.
Let me know if you have problems.
1 comment October 5th, 2007
The nice folks over at computerworld.com asked me to comment on this year’s salary survey, and to discuss with folks how to obtain a better salary. (See A Slow Thaw” for my column.) I’m blogging over at my computerworld blog. Please visit and leave comments.
Add comment November 14th, 2006
I’ve been using Bloglet for email subscribers. Today, I decided it was time to move on to Feedblitz. If you subscribe via email, you should received this posting (and all other future postings).
Add comment August 7th, 2006
The article, Blogs ‘essential’ to a good career says a well-executed blog can help you find a job by establishing you as an expert. The key here is “well-executed.”Blogging is great fun, and can help potential hiring managers discover another side of you. And, if your blog isn’t well-written, doesn’t link to others, and talks enough about off-topic issues, your blog may not help.But I’m an optimistic person. So if you’re a candidate looking for a job, start blogging!
1 comment April 17th, 2006
I just added two new blogs to my blogroll: Weinberg on Writing, and Secrets of Consulting. You may be wondering why.Writing cover letters is a non-trivial matter, and too many candidates do a poor job. Learning to write better, especially for something as important as cover letters, is one of those Good Ideas.
A couple of weeks ago, when I participated in Jerry’s consulting skills workshop, we discussed making contact at length. That’s when I realized that the making contact skill and the networking skills we discuss and use as consultants are the same as people searching for candidates or jobs.
These two blogs are not directly applicable to hiring–but you will find useful tidbits on them that you can use as you search for a candidate or a job.
Add comment April 14th, 2006
If you read this blog via an aggregator, you may not notice the changes. But I have succesfully updated my blogroll and made all the monthly archive pages appear. If you think I’ve missed your blog in the blogroll, please send me an email. Until I update the whole site, I’m done with blog housekeeping for now.
Bloglet readers, I don’t know how long you went without your notifications I’d changed something. I believe I’ve explained to Bloglet that the blog is still alive and well.
Add comment April 7th, 2006
If you read this blog via a newsreader instead of a browser, you may not notice I’ve been slowly making changes. I have finally figured out how to have Blogger automatically generate the archive links in reverse chronological order on the left (when you look at the page in a browser). Unfortunately, I must have done something wrong or triggered a defect, because the this month’s link wasn’t working the last I checked. I was planning to deal with that over the weekend.
I have a bunch of blogroll work, and possibly more template work, so I’ll be working down the list slowly over the next few weeks.
Add comment March 2nd, 2006