[From nobody Sun Sep 12 13:13:27 2004 X-Apparently-To: vosedj@yahoo.com via 206.190.37.49; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:56:44 -0700 X-YahooFilteredBulk: 66.73.247.153 X-Originating-IP: [66.73.247.153] Return-Path: <wsmith@etc.com> Received: from 66.73.247.153 (HELO cloud.etc.com) (66.73.247.153) by mta205.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:56:44 -0700 Received: (qmail 22505 invoked by uid 20000); 12 Sep 2004 05:56:13 -0000 Date: 12 Sep 2004 05:56:13 -0000 From: wsmith@etc.com To: vosedj@yahoo.com Subject: UniForum: Open Source Jobs Content-Length: 1765 If you don't want to receive these announcements via e-mail please send me a note at wsmith@etc.com. Note: This meeting is at the IIT Rice Campus, which is very close to COD. See the the URL's below for additional details. -Randy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advice for Open Source Job Seekers Andy Lester Tuesday, September 14th, 2004 7:00-9:00pm Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus, Wheaton, Room 103 Abstract -------- You don't have to live on the West coast to get a great job and still give back to the open source community. Unlearn the conventional wisdom that cripples most job hunters. Forget what you think you know about getting a great job. This 90-minute interactive session is in three sections, with plenty of time for Q&A. * Finding your job The right job for you is out there. You just have to find it, or have it find you. Learn the right search techniques: Only 1% of jobs are filled through job boards! Learn to grow and use your circle of contacts, including in the OS world, to help in your search. Take home techniques to find out about the company you're interested in: Google is only the start. * Get an interview A pretty resume is worthless if the hiring manager doesn't see what he needs. Use your Open Source background to get in the door. Find out what the manager wants. Learn how to read a job posting. Create a resume and online presence that lets potential employers know about you. Does your online footprint help or hinder you? * Get the job Learn the three crucial mistakes not to make in your interview. Find out how to turn the old-style Q&A interview into a working session to prove that you are the right candidate. Speaker Bio ----------- Andy Lester has been a professional programmer for eighteen years and a Perl evangelist for a decade. By day, he manages programmers for Follett Library Resources in McHenry, IL. By night, he spreads the gospel of automated testing and maintains over a dozen CPAN modules. Andy also writes for The Perl Journal, and three of his hacks have been published in Spidering Hacks by O'Reilly. Getting There ------------- This meeting of the UniForum Chicago JavaSIG will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 PM on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at the Illinois Institute of Technology Rice campus. The address of the meeting facility is: IIT's Rice Campus Room 103 201 East Loop Road, Wheaton, Illinois 60187 Take I-88 to the Naperville Road exit. Go North on Naperville Road to Butterfield/Rt. 56. Turn right on Butterfield and proceed East to the next stoplight East (East Loop Road). Turn north onto East Loop Road (Grady's/Cozymel's Restaurants and Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corners); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road. Park in the student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance. More detailed directions and maps are available at: http://www.rice.iit.edu/directions.html http://www.rice.iit.edu/floorplan.html All UniForum Chicago general meetings are open to the public free of charge. For additional information contact David Young at (630) 357-5963 or president@uniforum.chi.il.us, or visit the UniForum Chicago web site at: http://www.uniforum.chi.il.us/ ]