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The Laid Off IT Guy! Conducting the Phone Screen Interview

While, in general, I’d prefer to interview face-to-face, the phone screen interview does have its place during the initial selection process.  Here is how to use the phone screen interview process to your advantage as the candidate.

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The Laid Off IT Guy! Communicating with Recruiters

You don’t normally have to go looking for recruiters.  They usually find you.  Just place your resume at some of the most popular job boards and it’s “open season” on recruiters seeking you out to fill their contract jobs.  When you are unemployed, that can certainly be a good thing.  I’ve found, however, that not all recruiters are created equally.  Some are not worth your time and are just not a good match to help you.

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The Laid Off IT Guy! Are You Working in the Wrong Industry?

I’m not talking about working as an IT guy in healthcare versus working in IT in the finance industry.  I’m talking about have you ever considered getting out of IT and doing something completely different?

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Windows 8: The Best Is Yet To Come?

John  Traenkenschuh

Windows 8 seems an exercise in frustration.  Traenk wonders if there is more coming... 


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#TuesdayTrivia: WindowsRT, Tiles and Charms...Oh My! Win "Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML" eBook by Jeremy Likness

Emily Nave
Software developers know the thing you can count on in your career is change. Microsoft is redefining the way apps are developed -- are you ready to get on board?

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#TuesdayTrivia Early Bird Gets the (iOS 6) Worm: Win "Core iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook" eBook

Emily Nave

"Developers can't wait for the right answers, especially from amazing teachers and trainers like Erica Sadun, Stephen Kochan and Robert Clair," says Paul Boger, Publisher of Pearson Technology Group. "We want our customers to gain expertise as soon as the experts do. With Early Editions, they can."

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By Emily NaveCommentsOctober 23, 2012
Topics: Programming

#TuesdayTrivia: Get an A+ in C++ (Win C++ Primer, 5th Edition, eBook)

Emily Nave
Countless programmers have learned C++ from previous editions of C++ Primer. During that time, the language has matured and shifted focus from looking at machine efficiency to programmer efficiency.

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By Emily NaveCommentsOctober 16, 2012
Topics: Programming

#TuesdayTrivia: Ruby Tuesday? (Win Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby eBook by Sandi Metz)

Emily Nave

Ruby's widely admired ease of use has a downside: Too many Ruby and Rails applications have been created without concern for their long-term maintenance or evolution.

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By Emily NaveCommentsSeptember 20, 2012
Topics: Programming

#TuesdayTrivia: Do it better in CoffeeScript (Win Programming in CoffeeScript eBook by Mark Bates)

Emily Nave

If you can do it in JavaScript, you can do it better in CoffeeScript. And, since CoffeeScript "compiles down" to JavaScript, your code will fit neatly into virtually any web environment.

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By Emily NaveCommentsSeptember 5, 2012
Topics: Programming

Now you tell me...

John  Traenkenschuh

facebook is creating a second virtual life of its own...  Now you tell me!


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Thank You from InformIT #17DaysofGiveaways

Rachel Bayless

The 17 Days of Giveaways ran each weekday July 9-31. We gave our fans eBooks, Amazon gift cards, and more. Thank you to our fans, old and new, for participating. We hope that you had fun. Thanks for all the retweets, blog posts, and Facebook likes. We’re so sad we couldn’t give everyone a prize! Please sign up for our newsletter to stay updated on our latest news and product offerings, and maybe some upcoming contests with more opportunities to win!

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Day 17 of #17DaysofGiveaways - Microsoft Week

Rachel Bayless
This is it – Day 17 of the 17 Days of Giveaways. For our final giveaway, three winners will each receive a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed eBook by Kerrie Meyler, Byron Holt, Marcus Oh, Jason Sandys, and Greg Ramsey. This team of experts offers step-by-step coverage of related topics in every feature area, organized to help IT professionals rapidly optimize Configuration Manager 2012 for their requirements, and then deploy and use it successfully. The authors begin by introducing Configuration Manager 2012 and its goals, and explaining how it fits into the broader System Center product suite. Next, they fully address planning, design, and implementation. Finally, they systematically cover each of Configuration Manager 2012's most important feature sets, addressing issues ranging from configuration management to software distribution. Readers will learn how to use Configuration Manager 2012's user-centric capabilities to provide anytime/anywhere services and software, and to strengthen both control and compliance. The first book on Configuration Manager 2012, System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Unleashed joins Sams' market-leading series of books on Microsoft's System Center product suite: books that have achieved go-to status amongst IT implementers and administrators worldwide.

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