University of Houston
Job Interest Not a Big Predictor of Job Satisfaction
“To be satisfied with a job, you don’t have to worry too much about finding a perfect fit for your interests …
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What Job Crafting Looks Like
Job crafting — changing your job to make it more engaging and meaningful — can take many forms. We’ve been studying job …
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I've been an engineer and a recruiter. Hiring is broken. Here's why… and what it should be like instead.
If you’ve ever been on either end of the table, you’re probably mad at the state of hiring, too. Whether you have …
CareerA Warning About Glassdoor
After being laid off, I left a very detailed, thorough, cutting review that within a week of being posted, had 6 …
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Advice to my young self: to succeed in your career, forget side projects and focus on your job
To develop my career, I was spending a lot of time outside work reading technical books, doing toy projects, going to …
Career Side ProjectSlava Akhmechet
How to get promoted
Almost everyone who does great work toils in relative obscurity. Performance reviews are social fiction. How do people really …
CareerAnna Shipman
Meeting everyone on a new team
When I joined the Financial Times as Technical Director for FT.com, I inherited a team of around 50 engineers. One of the …
Career WorkElisabeth Irgens
To All The Jobs I Had Before
My career as a developer started 5 years ago. Before that I have 15 years work experience from other roles, and I’ve …
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Laid off, now what?
As an immigrant on an H1B, you have exactly 60 days to find a new job when you are laid-off. This is a very short window of …
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Cracking The Who You Show Your Work Code
On the importance of showing your work to the right people to get the success the work deserves; It’s not enough to …
CareerHacker News
How do people become experts?
I’ve know a number of people who were really good at one thing or a handful of interrelated things. That might be a …
CareerThe Atlantic
Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover
Workers who value day-to-day flexibility in their schedules are ideal work-from-home candidates; those who like strict …
Career Remote WorkHacker News
What is a better approach to interviewing?
I want to make the interview experience better for applicants but have no control over the format or time. There is a lot of …
Career WorkBen Frederickson
Why GitHub Won't Help You With Hiring
This post is about why GitHub profiles just aren’t all that useful when looking to hire developers.
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Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
So here’s my guide to negotiation. It’s going to be split into two parts: this first part will be about …
CareerMedium
Distributed work: The job I want to return to
It seems like almost everyone is currently focused on the concept of “remote” because we’re all in the …
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What I Learned from Doing 60+ Technical Interviews in 30 Days
In this article, I’ll share my motivation for doing 60+ technical interviews in 30 days. More importantly, I’ll …
CareerJulia Evans
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
I think telling someone’s manager they’re doing great work is a pretty common practice and it can be really …
Career WorkNC State News
Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills
A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently used in hiring …
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Best ways to retain qualified employees?
What are the best effective measures to retain qualified employees (in general and developers in particular)?
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The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal
The French philosopher Blaise Pascal pointed out that “All of humanity’s problems come from man’s inability …
CareerFarnam Street
Job Interviews Don't Work
Better hiring leads to better work environments, less turnover, and more innovation and productivity. When you understand the …
Career WorkJulia Evans
Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews
Different tech companies run their interviews in very different ways, and I think it’s silly to expect candidates to …
CareerDavid Stanete
Storytelling tips for technical interviews
I would like to share my approach to interviews and to emphasize the importance of storytelling when interviewing candidates …
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Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People
One of the most narrow pieces of feedback I give to people being promoted to manager is simple - don’t joke about …
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Resume Pro Tip: The absolute best way to show your work experience
Having a strong resume helped me land interviews at Amazon, Toptal, Crossover, and many more top remote work platforms. I …
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Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them.
Onboarding at a new company can be a weird thing. Besides the very corporate-sounding name itself (that makes some of us …
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Career advice for people with bad luck
Most career advice on the internet is from people who had some sort of meteoric success. Why read advice from someone …
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My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs
I wrapped up my job search recently, and I’m happy to say that I’ll be joining a YC-backed startup called …
CareerSolipsys Limited
Sell yourself, Sell Your Work ...
Doing technically brilliant work may be enough for your personal gratification, but you should never think it’s enough. …
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