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Entries from January 2007

1 Thing Nobody Told You NOT-TO-DO Before Your Job Interview

January 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Setup a blog to showcase your resume (perfectly okay). Link the blog to your job application (brilliantly logical). Then post about “Your Ideal Job.”
(*) A few months ago, I picked up the book “10 simple solutions to adult with ADD” and read the part about ideal jobs for adults with ADD. I said “Wow,” jotted […]

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Know How to Write a Loop and You Might Snatch that Programming Job

January 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Speaking on behalf of software engineers who have to interview prospective new hires, I can safely say that we’re tired of talking to candidates who can’t program their way out of a paper bag. If you can successfully write a loop that goes from 1 to 10 in every language on your resume, can do […]

Tags: Career & Jobs

Beware of Shil Bidding on Ebay

January 27th, 2007 · No Comments

You probably know about shil bidding if you’ve bought and sold on Ebay. Shill bidding means either you or your friends and associates bid on your own auctions to drive up the prices.

Our inquiries found evidence that a number of businesses — ranging from overseas property agencies to car dealerships — have placed bids on […]

Tags: Online $$$ Experiments · Ebay

Get Paid From YouTube?

January 27th, 2007 · No Comments

I wrote about Eefoof’s paying users for uploading content and predicted that this method would attract users to the site and possibly steal existing YouTube’s fans. Moreover, Eefoof can pose a challenge to Youtube and motivate the latter to come up with a revenue sharing scheme to its biggest users.
And what did I see today […]

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