Quick question...

[elfs]

So, in order to facilitate my job search, alongside my resume I've put up my portfolio. Looking through it, I can't decide what my career has been like. Quite obviously, my "professional" career has been all about functional websites and intranet applications, but there's a lot of ad-hockery in there, don't you think?

Comments

[solarbird]

In the description of the 1995 site, you have a layout problem in the text - an extra paragraph break:

The backend was a combination of bash and kermit. The file would be transferred to MissingKids.org. A perl script

controlled a series of C programs, some custom, some part of the PNM suite, to analyze the image, crop out the

FYI.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I used Markdown for the original draft, and then pasted it into the wordpress site. Wordpress's TinyMCE implementation doesn't know what to do with the returns and tries to keep them. I thought I'd gotten them all. Apparently not.

[topbit.livejournal.com]

Personally, I would be inclined to put them in most-recent order, maybe with a note up top to link down to previous years.

I'd think a recruiter cares more about what you did last month, than 15 years ago.

Job Search Site

[(Anonymous)]

Elf,

You're not the only one looking for work right now in the I.T. area. I am in that situation myself given the current economic conditions, which is why I have time to post on your blog in the relative middle of the day.

If you haven't already heard about this site try job searching on:
Indeed.com
It's a search engine that searches many other job listing sites, and was recommended to me under the table by one of my recruiters that I've known for a long time now. While not the best kept secret around, it is one that some folks don't seem to mention early on.

--D.B. Story