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