I’m not very good at this.
As a lovely start to a new week, I’ve just been on the phone to an IT recruiter, attempting to persuade her that I *am* the best person for the job. Now I know that when it comes to programming I can do just about anything, but how do you put that on a cv and make it sound reasonable?
Scratches head, takes another drink of tea, gets down to it…
ps open source code Karen, is the codebase behind things like wordpress – basically, when you get the software, you also get (free) access to the code and can develop it any way you like, as long as you maintain the open source license (let everyone else have your code too). WordPress is then built from the accepted contributions from a whole pile of developers. It’s a very different style of code development to the one I’m used to with, with specs, development, partner programming and peer review, where you’ve got to justify how you’ve done it, and other ppl check that it works…
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6 responses to “self promotion”
Well you could get lots of personal recommendation references from us lot. Obviously some of us would be more the sort of sites you are happy to have been part of than others, but you have worked on lots of the business sites between us, would that be any use?
I have always been the opposite really – fab at talking myself up and good at interviews but sadly disappointing once I’ve been hired 🙂
Best of luck!
Thanks for that information Jax. I don’t believe that Nic.
ROFL at Nic. I just feel sure that I need you as my publicist for something. I’m crap at the selling bit, but do follow through. Good luck Jax.
No problem Joyce! I’d be great at that job, if you want a free sample of my work Jax, holler and I’ll ‘big you up’ no problem 🙂
Oh that’s me too, Nic. I can bluff interviews and especially exams (give me any ‘false’ situation I can give them what they want), but really there’s nothing there 🙁 Give me real life and that’s when I trip up. I was great at school, though…