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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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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 15 of #17DaysofGiveaways - Mobile Programming Week

Rachel Bayless

We have reached the end of yet another week of InformIT giveaways. We're wrapping up Mobile Programming week with a $25 Amazon gift card, which three lucky winners will receive! For our winners who missed out on this week's other giveaways, you might want to use that gift card for:

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Day 12 of #17DaysofGiveaways - Mobile Programming Week

Rachel Bayless

For the twelfth day of giveaways, we are giving three winners an eBook copy of iOS Prgramming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 3E by Joe Conway and Aaron Hillegass. These two instructors from the Big Nerd Ranch lead you through the essential concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications in this version updated and expanded to cover iOS 5 and Xcode 4.3.

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Day 10 of #17DaysofGiveaways - Software Engineering Week

Rachel Bayless

We’ve reached the end of another week of giveaways. Today InformIT is giving three winners each an eBook of Elemental Design Patterns by Jason McC. Smith. In this book Jason addresses the difficulty that even experienced software professionals face in applying patterns. He helps developers, designers, architects, and analysts bring substantial value to their organizations by teaching to use patterns in a variety of languages, environments, and domains. The book is rich with examples in addition to being a helpful tutorial. He helps developers harness the true power of patterns, map them to real software implementations more cleanly and directly, and achieve far better results.

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Day 9 of #17DaysofGiveaways - Software Engineering Week

Rachel Bayless

The Day 9 giveaway will add a nice touch to your bookshelf. We’re giving away sets of “GEEK” bookends from Etsy seller Knob Creek Metal Arts. They are perfect for keeping your software engineering books together!

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Day 1 of #17DaysofGiveaways - Web Development Week

Rachel Bayless

Welcome to the first of 17 Days of Giveaways from InformIT. This week’s theme is Web Development. Our kickoff giveaway is an eBook copy of Core HTML5 Canvas by David Geary.

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#17DaysofGiveaways - Here are the prizes!

Rachel Bayless

If you didn’t catch the first 17 Days of Giveaways blog post, here’s a little catch up. InformIT is giving away prizes every weekday in July beginning Monday, July 9. Every day we’ll be giving away our daily prize to three lucky winners.

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InformIT's 17 Days of Giveaways

Rachel Bayless

Get ready for a month full of giveaways. From July 9 through the end of the month, InformIT will be having 17 days of giveaways. Each week has a theme to make sure that there’s something YOU will be excited to win!

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What's Google know about you that you don't?

John  Traenkenschuh

Researching via a good search engine can be like opening a new Johari Window...

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There are no secrets II

John  Traenkenschuh

After the discussion on client configurations betraying your infrastructure choices, my talk with Sim Pul Simon (my corrected spelling) turned to other server examples.

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Complexity Kills

John  Traenkenschuh

"Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers and IT. Complexity makes products difficult to plan, build, test and use. Complexity introduces security challenges. Complexity causes administrator frustration."

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