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CV, Web, job hunting
SEO for your CV- Letting Web Jobs Find You
Do you have an unusual skillset, a willingness to relocate, or a fairly senior job title? If finding you is a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack, potential employers may be using Google to find you. How can you make sure that your CV is easy to find through a search engine? Try the following:
- Have an HTML copy of your CV with a SEO-friendly file name, title and meta tags- a good choice would be along the lines of mydomain.com/webPHPdevelopercv.html or similar with a useful title along the same lines. Use the meta keywords to provide several alternate job titles (”cake developer, web developer, php developer, php programmer, web team lead, CV, resume”) or your most critical skills, and the meta description to sum up what you’re looking for, including location (”PHP Developer with M.Sc. in Computer Science for lead developer role in Dublin, Cork, or elsewhere in Ireland”).
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CV, Web, job hunting
A Web Friendly CV for Web Jobs in Ireland
I’ve always been astounded by the number of people who apply for web-related jobs whose CV gives no hint of knowledge of the Internet that goes beyond most people’s grandmas. Vague CVs that give no indication of the technologies being used on the project (Ruby on Rails? Java? Fortran? This information might be useful to potential employers). No way to get more information about past employers. And, most dammingly, no links to any past work.
You know who you are, people. And, whether you’re a project manager, designer, developer, director, or QA specialist, if the word “web” is anywhere in your job title or description, you should do the following to your CV:
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Irish news, Jobs in Ireland, Web, job hunting
Jobyssey Beta Launch Rescheduled for May 15, 2008
Jobyssey is joining the long, long list of software companies that have put off a beta or ship date and rescheduling our beta test launch for May 15, 2008. As we’ve been working through the development process we’re finding features that we feel we really need to have, and we’d rather push the release back by a month than put those features off to a later release. The database is in good shape, but we’re going to be using the next month to tune up these features:
- A complete applicant tracking process that records which jobs you’ve applied for and where you are in the application process;
- Improved searching logic to show you “almost match” jobs as well as perfect fits
- Improved CV parsing logic to automatically find as much info on your CV as possible (and save you typing in your search criteria)
Stay tuned for updates- we’re a bit snowed under at the moment hammering out exactly how the new features are going to work, but we’ll be posting about our progress as we get closer to completion.
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Ireland, Web
Web 2.0 Design
We’re in the process of finalizing design decisions for our key pages- the pages most people will be using once the site is up and running. Serendipitously, I came across this article on Web Design From Scratch that summed up the (heretofore inarticulable by me) design principles of web 2.0. The characteristics singled out were:
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Irish news, Web, innovation, technology news
Cloud Computing comes to Ireland
“Cloud computing” seems to be that new phrase you suddenly start hearing everywhere. First, we heard Ray Ozzie talk about it as part of Microsoft’s new business model in the Mix08 keynote address. Now we’re hearing about the new cloud computing center IBM will be opening in Ireland (via Silicon Republic and IBM).
To be honest, at first I was kind of confused as to exactly what cloud computing was all about, but luckily HowStuffWorks shed some light on that (as an aside, the power requirements of the main Google facility are pretty awesome in the Biblical sense).
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Microsoft, Web, events
Interoperability in IE8- Mix08 Keynote
Clare Dillon clued us in to a Silverlight Users Group meetup last night at the Odessa Club here in Dublin to watch the keynote address from Mix08. A lot of the Silverlight content was interesting but academic for us, as at the moment Jobyssey isn’t very multimedia heavy. Ray Ozzie’s discussion of the Software+Services model shed some light on the gameplan for Microsoft in the coming years (see a summary here), but it was Dean Hatchamovitch’s discussion of IE8 that really grabbed our attention.
IE8 is going to have a number of interesting new features, but it’s also to have a much heavier focus on improved interoperability than previous IE releases (see Microsoft’s summary of the standards changes here, and a detailed discussion of exactly which standards it will be compliant with here). Better compliance with CSS/ HTML standards will hopefully mean more consistent results with the use of float positioning and the like, and hopefully less cursing the heavens as we try to figure out why a page looks one way in IE7 and another in Firefox/Safari (in case you’re cursing the fact that your IE7 optimized pages will now display incorrectly, there’s support built in for that as well).
Welcome news, and long overdue. With various versions of IE currently commanding about 50% of market share, every page has to display well across recent IE releases as well as Firefox, and there’s really no good reason for there to be so many differences in functionality. Besides the aggravation of trying to ensure that users on different browsers are having similar experiences, there are a lot of cool things out there that aren’t supported in IE7, and it’s discouraging to keep opting out of things we think would improve the site to ensure that it is viewable for everyone. Hopefully change is around the corner, though.
Thanks again to Clare for the invite and to the Silverlight guys for having us- it was a fun night, and neat peek into new Microsoft web technologies.
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