• “Life is to short for a job you don’t love”
• The Foundations of Job search
  • be honest with yourself
  • be honest with others
  • think like the boss
  • be a problem solver
  • sell yourself
  • tell stories: “Stories are evidence who you are, what you can do and what you have done in the past”, Don’t pride your work it must shine through without mention it
  • be positive
• “We all have better things to do than to go through interviews”
• Larry Wall: “The three virtues of programmer are laziness, impatience and hubris”
• p: 39 sections of Your resume
  • contact block: name, email, phone-number, street-address
  • professional summary: just think of 20 seconds elevator pitch and describe you with goods words
  • work experience
  • education
  • achievements outside of work
  • list of buzzwords and skills
• p 59: you can add your own sections in your resume (like: Publishing, Why I love programming)
• p 59 order in your resume: put the most important thing for the job (and you are best in in the first place)
• p 60: “Every word in your resume must have value and do not detract from the rest”
• p 65: basic rules for building your resume:
  • it is your first work for your new company
  • it will be seen by more people than you expect
  • it must be perfect
  • presentation is content
• p 67~~68 general guidelines for resume *** name must be the first thing to read *** just use two fonts: sans-serif for headings and serif like Times new Roman for everything else *** body text size between 9 - 12 *** if you are writing a summary make the important words bold * p 72: “Stand back from your work as much as you can” * p 78: a good hint how to get a textual representation of your resume with lynx * p 80: think of the hidden job market, where 60~~ 80 percent of all jobs are => keep up relations with people
• p 87: job exists to sell ad space and aren’t there to help you get a job
• p 90: job boards sites (mostly for American site)
• p 95: detective work to get answers to the the related company
• p 97: search the net for email conversations of their employees - very clever
• p 104: Never pay to Find a Job => “if you’re asked for money of any kind from a headhunter, walk away immediately”
• p 115: naming of your attachments matthias-guenther.pdf eg.
• p 117: don’t tell your salary and it’s no blame to say it’s confidential
• p 126: use working examples (code) of your work => you are serious about the job
• p 194: what you can do to get faster informed if you get the job
• p 195: wait a week after the interview of better just ask direct after the interview when you will be informed
• p 200: how to create a reference sheet => these things are good for reference checker
• p 201: the job offer => do not accept the offer yet, just check the circumstances
• p 203: negotiate the offer =>the best way to negotiate salary is not to negotiate
• p 207: how to gracefully quit your job (don’t explain your departure, just leave a letter), don’t take a counteroffer, be well remembered in your old position
• p 209: avoid the Exit Interview there is nothing you can gain from
• p 213: nobody stays at their job forever these days