Teaching a pig to sing
/Recently I reentered the job market. No, wait – strike that. Reentry makes it sound like a controlled process. This time, it was more like the sweet meteor of death. Let me explain.
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Recently I reentered the job market. No, wait – strike that. Reentry makes it sound like a controlled process. This time, it was more like the sweet meteor of death. Let me explain.
Read MoreI have spent an inordinate amount of time in the last few months interviewing candidates at my day job for a number of positions. Like so many other companies in the tech arena, it is increasingly hard to find qualified people without personality quirks so onerous you wonder how the candidate is able to survive in the real world. If you are reasonably competent in your field and can form a coherent sentence, there are plenty of jobs that can be yours.
Be fiercely individual and continue to enjoy the unemployment line.
Read MoreProcess.Kill();
With a single line of code we can remove a misbehaving application from a computer and – theoretically – restore normal operations. Too bad there is nothing like that for the workplace.
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