Phil Wolff: bloggers for hire

Hire A. Fish, Bay Area software engineer

Sun, 18 Jul 2004 03:13:49 GMT

A smart, funny, articulate problem solver. Great blogger too. Her long time weblog. Her more recent blogging. I love Alison's O.U.! Officially Unemployed! post.

Blogging at work. Work at blogging.

Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:23:48 GMT

This is not a peak hiring season. But there are jobs to be had in blogging.

IMN is hiring an inside sales rep to work in Newton, Mass, selling blogging and newsreading tools.

Siemens is looking for a contract ActionScript developer to work with Microsoft's Social Computing Group on Wallop-related stuff. Blogs + Social Networks.

Amazon.com’s Customer Content Team is hiring a senior software engineer. "We are the “discover” in “find, discover and buy.” Current features and projects include the world-wide deployment of features such as Customer Reviews, Listmania, Buying Guides, and Blogs, as well as workflow, customer service services and web services for all of the above."

IBM's hiring researchers into a team that's worked on weblogs in the past.

And the Ebay Developer Community Manager is expected to post to their public weblog.

SixApart has openings for a Web Designer/Developer and a Software Engineer. You too can make MovableType and TypePad better. Technorati has jobs for a Analytics Engineer, MySQL Administrator, and a LAMP Software Engineer.

Or how about a six month blogging user experience contract in Dulles, VA.

And then there's Monster's Rebecca who blogs pseudonymously.

Blogger for Hire: Gary Secondino, tech-savvy major account executive.

Wed, 07 Jan 2004 05:59:40 GMT

Gary Secondino is one of the first bloggers I read regularly. He's looking for a gig. Gary does a nice job of keeping links to his quals front and center on his blog (upper left, actually).

A weblog or blog
this is iSee iSay.

My Card
Hire Me
I'm an ESTJ
My Resumé

[Bloggers for Hire]

Code or Die - Recruiting promotions of the week.

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:45:13 GMT

Do you live for the elegant hack? Compete in the Google Code Jam 2003. Say you don't slay the competition.How dying for a living? Win a walk-on roll starring your own demise in Showtime's Dead Like Me (the Win A Job To Die For sweepstakes). The drawing is around October 1st.

Robert Walikis - Resume Blog.

Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:23:11 GMT

I love it.

Rob's Availability. Interests. Experience. Links to resumes in various formats, for various roles. Professional colleagues by name. Professional affiliations. Blogrolls. Just throwing it all out there for the search engines.

This is a simple, free use of a blogging tool. It adheres to the four principles set by the Software Product Marketing eGroup for this project:

"I Own Me": SPM Members to retain as complete control over their own professional information as possible, and to allow for flexiblility in the display and inclusion of content
"Zero-Budget": Bootstrap infrastructure using publicly available, free / cheap / open source tools and services as well as establishing desirable alliances and partnerships
"Absence of Presence": Establish standard mechanisms for evaluating accuracy and strength of SPM members' information
"Social Networks Work": Drive ResumeBloggers to develop key skills in social networking, virtual collaboration, and social software application / use

Now if Rob only blogged about what he knows, thinks, experiences. It would not only be worth finding, it would be worth reading. "akasig"

Job: Dean Campaign SysAdmin, Burlington, VT.

Sun, 07 Sep 2003 06:04:06 GMT

From the DeanForAmerica weblog:

Harish Rao, our IT Director, has asked several times that I post this job description. It's his birthday, so I figured I'd relent. Working here is a labor of love, so everyone is underpaid and the hours are brutal. Please apply only if you have professional experience in all the required areas and are ready to move to Burlington tomorrow.
Send applications to work@deanforamerica.com with a resume and references in the body of the email. Please title the email WILL SYSADMIN FOR AMERICA.
Responsibility Overview

Systems Administrator will be responsible and accountable for networksoftware, hardware, and telecom issue resolution. They will be expected to help design, maintain, and implement our current Windows 2000 client and RedHat Linux server nationwide infrastructure. The successful candidate will communicate daily with the IT Director and outline project status and completion dates, and assure that deliverables schedules are met. On a regular basis, they will collect new systems requirements from staff members and deliver documented solutions to them. They will also be responsible for ensuring that all systems are secure and available to field offices and off-site personnel.

"akasig"

A road campaign for truth, justice, the American Way. And a job.

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 06:34:55 GMT

Need an outspoken, thoughtful, Minnesota family man with software experience? See JobForJohn.com, a project of John Andrew of Northfield, MN.

Quovix is hiring a project manager.

Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:27:13 GMT

President Marty Morrow posted this project manager gig to his blog a few weeks' ago. As outsourcing and offshoring grow, so will Quovix, a project/product management collaborative software company.

Machine Blogging: Programmers sought for project: CVS to weblog/RSS, and back.

Mon, 21 Jul 2003 06:02:33 GMT

CVS as Blogger. Bill Lazar seeks programmers interested in bootstrapping a new system. Improve project communication by having your codebase blog.

Yes, blog.

You're all busy doing your own thing, coding here, checking stuff in there, testing this, trying that. Common point of reality? The code. Keeper of the reality? Your configuration management system.

Bill's solution: Wrap common events in plain english and post them to a weblog. Syndicate the results if you like. Add your project CVS to your blogroll. Comment on your CVS's posts in your own blog.

Wanted: Programmers and QA folks interested in making a tool that will extend the five most popular code management systems with a blogging interface. Contact Product Manager Bill. Bill is an alum of both Sun and Pyra, has a Rutgers MBA, and is polishing his C# in his spare time.

p.s. Bill pays attention to movies in the works. Very cool. He's interested in syndicating this content while preserving its structure. Any suggestions?

Just a reminder: Don't Blog.

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:45:13 GMT

In your browser in html (searchable).

Or as a PowerPoint file. Windows fonts.

Blogger for Hire: Cheyene, aka Gnome Girl, designer, Berkeley, California.

Sun, 08 Jun 2003 18:36:12 GMT

Working on her "resume". Power portfolio perhaps? No CV linked from her blog.

[a klog apart Bloggers for Hire]

Tue, 18 Feb 2003 05:51:35 GMT

Brian needs a Peoplesoft Sales/Marketing consultant. Contract. Bay Area.

Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:02:47 GMT

Do you know your stuff?

Peoplesoft functional consultant.

Need functional resources in the areas of Sales and Marketing with hands-on experience implementing PeopleSoft 8.4. Multiple implementation are preferable. Hands on development/configuration experience is critical, but also must be able to interface with business resources. Additionally, any hands-on experience with Annuncio/Online marketing would be a plus.

Needs to have experience with the Peoplesoft Sales and Marketing module on version 8.0 and newer.

6-12+ month contract Include your hourly pay rate.

The rate will depend upon experience.

East Bay location.

Requirements: Peoplesoft SFA v8.4, CRM, Sales, Marketing

Travel required: 00%

Telecommute: no

Contact Brian Wang, brian@elegantconsulting.com, Send me your resume. Arrange a call to answer any questions.

You couldn't ask for a better project lead than Brian. Let me know how it goes.

Two Cambridge, MA, J2EE / Oracle app server jobs.

Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:12:31 GMT

My friend is hiring two Javaheads.

Candidates must have secret clearances and have J2EE developer experience (3-5 years) and Oracle Application Server experience. Need 2 people who can start quickly.
- J2EE
- Oracle application server
- Active Secret Security Clearance!!
Does not need to be on H1.
Must have the clearance and the 3-5 years of J2EE and Oracle application server experience.
Rate very competitive. Depends on experience.
Location: Cambridge, Mass.

Contact Brian Wang with your resume, rate and availability and questions.
650 255 2038
brian@elegantconsulting.com

Flemming Funch, multifaceted free agent.

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 01:01:47 GMT

Euan Semple catches Flemming Funch pondering his brand:

But now, my own problem is, unfortunately, that at this point I can't really tell you what my own core competency is. I am quite capable in several, rather diverse areas, but I can't tell you in 30 seconds what I do, without making you confused. The kind of stuff I usually would feel like putting on my business card would tend to make people look puzzled and ask "How on earth would you make money on that?". My current business card says "Linking the people who change the world". Sounds good, and I get a certain amount of admiration for that, but nobody's gonna hire me to actually do that.

I think it is harder to pigeonhole bloggers. More of you comes out through your posts. The advantage: each part of you reaches new audiences. The downside: you become harder to reduce to a slogan or sound bite.

Flemming's blog, Ming.tv, is a great blend of business, technology, and life. His bio is great, blending pro and personal, getting his personality, interests, priorities, and accomplishments across.

His web resume gets specific about what he seeks in a gig. Recruiters love this stuff.

Contracting mutually beneficial relationships and partnerships. Please don't contact me about regular employment.

Creative and challenging software projects, preferably cutting-edge Internet related, or webserver administration and automation projects. Collaboration, Self-Organization, Knowledge Management and Web Services would be some good keywords. Preference for projects that involve communication with all stake holders, and the opportunity to see a project through its whole life cycle. Preference for projects that involve creativity and independent, self-motivated work.

A hybrid resume, it has both a chronological work history and functional descriptions. Sections like "Firsts" and "Supervisory skills and experience" balance the usual lists of technologies and IT jargon.

[a klog apart Bloggers for Hire]

Dave Winer, job seeker.

Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:21:16 GMT

Dave Winer, software pioneer and entrepreneur, is on the market.

Believe it or not I'm applying for a job in academia, so it's time to put together my curriculum vitae. It's a fancy name for a resume. Basically, the job I want to do is the one I have been doing, with some extras (like teaching), but not in the context of a commercial software company. more...

I think Dave is following his heart. He may have had his fill for now of the daily small business owner grind. And UserLand may be poised for new management and new directions. We'll stay tuned.

p.s. Now is the time for Dave to make weblogs more useful in job search.

Start by acknowledging that CVs are made from microcontent. Then...

Support HR-XML "Resume" protocol, syndicate CVs via RSS.
Create a blogging user and programmatic interface for creating and maintaining a CV.
Make it easy to associate posts with specific jobs, projects, and skills.
Make job availability clearly visible.

Blogging tools should turbocharge your career search.

[a klog apart's Bloggers for Hire]

Mark Baker, cto and semantic webologist. Ottawa, Canada.

Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:25:01 GMT

Mark Baker, who blogs as a Tech Curmudgeon, seeks work. If you're seeking someone who understands why RESTful has capital letters, he may be your candidate.

His home page shows mature priorities, with a personal section first (wife and child). Links to his resumé in the following Professional section. Serious list of technical affiliations and professional accomplishments.

On his resumé, Mark states his case far better than most.

Objective
To integrate the Web into everything

Overview
Mark is an expert in, and a student of, large scale distributed systems and software architecture in general. He has a special interest in application protocols and coordination languages, and in particular an indepth understanding of the workings of the World Wide Web. He believes that, for the foreseeable future, the bulk of innovation in Internet scale systems will occur via additional architectural constraints applied to the Web. For example the Semantic Web, or the Two Way Web. He also believes Web services, and the Grid, will fail, but has some ideas about how to fix them.

Target Position
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Scientist, or similar, of a small/mid-sized company with a substantial investment in Web services, and with the foresight to recognize that there's a better way to use the Web to solve these problems. My role could involve any or all of the following;

rearchitecting the product line to be suitable for Internet scale deployment
engaging and educating customers about this new approach
participating in related standardization efforts
public speaking and writing
introducing Semantic Web technologies for data integration purposes
defining and implementing strategic initiatives as part of the executive team
prototyping new projects and proofs-of-concept

Note how quickly and directly Marks says what he wants and how he can help a prospective employer.

Two nits.

Not clear where he lives/works. I guess Ottawa from his last job and Canada from his domain and schooling. Make it easy to assess your geographic fit for a job, unless you are willing to relocate or if location doesn't matter for your job.
Contact information is in the footer of his home page and not on his CV. No metro area info. Make it easy to reach out to you on every page.

I keep thinking Mark should hook up with Craig Burton.

as of 16 December 2002 : 0416 PST [a klog apart Bloggers for Hire]

Scott Anguish, noted Cocoa programmer, for hire.

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 00:22:45 GMT

redmonk blog

Hire Scott Anguish: Scott Anguish, proprietor of the excellent Mac OS X and Cocoa resource site, StepWise, is available for Cocoa programming, WebObjects programming, and other consulting and writing.

You can read Scott's work in Cocoa Programming.

"So if you have a programming need, and you can find him, maybe you can hire - Scott Anguish."

[aka bloggers for hire]

Mon, 07 Oct 2002 01:24:12 GMT

This is my new blogchalk:
United States, California, Oakland, Adams Point, English, Phil, Male, 41-45. :)

Brent Ashley, Toronto, Canada, scripter and metaklogger.

Sat, 05 Oct 2002 06:08:35 GMT

I know Brent as a wry, insightful metaklogger. Lately, his eponymous blog has been nailing point after point on preconditions for successful "klogging". "Altruism as a cultivated resource" and "freedom to share" dive into knowledge as a flow. Good stuff.

Brent introduces himself professionally on his home page

Stuff that interests me and therefore I'm kinda good at:

keeping abreast with what's happening in the Internet developer world
making stuff work that nobody expected could actually be done
finding out how to do things when there's little to go on
Blogging, Knowledge Logging - web tools for knowledge management and collaboration
client: JavaScript / VBScript / DHTML / DOM
server: Windows NT/2000 / IIS / ASP / SQL
server: Linux / Apache / Perl / PHP / MySql / PostgreSQL
Remote Scripting, Web Services

Offers a text resume too.

The current incarnation of Brent's weblog goes back 18 months. Can you imagine printing his archive pages and just flipping through them to get a feel for him? For his turn-ons and turn-offs? Accomplishments? Citations? The way he approaches problems? Plays well with others?

I'll tell you now: Brent's "resume" doesn't do him justice. Go to the blog.

[a klog apart Bloggers for Hire]

Shelley Powers, Software Engineer, Greater Boston.

Fri, 04 Oct 2002 22:36:29 GMT

Shelley Powers, Burningbird, says why she "loved that job with a passion that most people reserve for their lovers." Like a multiple orgasm, your peak work experience broadens your horizons, raises your expectations. You start every engagement tingling with anticipation of another peak. And you work hard to understand what it takes to make it repeatable and better.

That's education. A string of experiences that open you up, release you to be more than you were, that renew your faith and confidence.

Some peak experiences need others, so your knowledge spreads as you invite partners to the dance, apprentices to the shop. Flow and peak performance share the same breath, spreading virtuous memes to newbies.

As you follow her weblog, you learn all about her technical skills and leanings, work style, location, professional alliances. But no CV or resume. There are tools that will parse a structured resume to extract a work history but nothing today that:

scans the hundreds of posts on a weblog for KSAs, interests, products/tools used
analyzes the professional context of the blog (links in, links out, and the context of those links), the better to infer descriptors

By the way, anyone have a dream job for Shelley?

[a klog apart Bloggers for Hire]

And you thought your last interview was hard....

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:29:20 GMT

Unemployed Turn to TV Show to Win Jobs.

Sep 26, 11:13 am ET

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans competing in a new television game show will not be bidding to win a luxury car or exotic holiday. In a country where four million people are out of work, the prize is much more sought-after: a job.

Two unemployed people will compete for one job contract in each show, and viewers will get to decide who they think is best suited to the post, said Marcus Wolter, program director at the Neun Live channel.
"There might be two hairdressers for example, who have to show how well they treat customers and, of course, how well they can cut hair," he said on Thursday.
Neun Live, a game and quiz show channel, largely finances itself through viewers' phone calls and by selling holidays.
The new show, which will go on air in late autumn has triggered criticism from unions and social organizations.
"Those who want to exploit the unemployed for visual ends are playing with the fears and hopes of people in a shameless and despicable manner," said Walter Hirrlinger, president of the VdK social federation.
Germany's DGB trade union federation told the mass-circulation Bild newspaper finding jobs for the unemployed should rest with professionals and not a TV show.
But Wolter said TV audiences were well-equipped to choose the better candidate without being employment experts: "If people can vote for their favorite song in the Eurovision song contest without having a music degree, why shouldn't they also vote in our show without being job experts?"

I see spinoffs:

Keep Your Job, defending against challengers. "Take backstabbing out of the office and put it on TV where it belongs."
Termination Court, supervisor and worker hash out workplace disputes in a small claims court.
The Employer, like The Bachelor, with a hundred candidates winnowing down to a final offer over the longest, most intimate interview process.
RealJob, using 360 degree interviews with your boss, colleagues, supervisors, and subordinates to see what they really think of you. Guess what they say about you to win vacation days.
BlogWerks, 5 studio musicians angle for the same job using email and their blogs. Who can muster the most linkbacks? Who can get the most traffic and downloads? Who gets the most prominent mention in industry trade press?

I really hope life doesn't imitate art.

Update: Anita Rowland says "They have this show in Argentina already!"

As mentioned in NPR's On The Media, the show is called Human Resources.

PETER HUDSON: It's basically a competition to win a job; unemployment in Argentina is running at over 20 percent. There's a lot of people who are desperate for employment, and so-- one of the leading channels here, Channel 13 has set up this program, Human Resources. Two contestants come on and talk about their lives, talk about what they were working in before they became unemployed, and at the end of the program one of them is, is awarded a job.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: The format of Human Resources which really seems to weigh sob stories against each other rather than talent reminds me a little bit of a game show of sorts that there was when I was a very little girl called Queen for a Day where a bunch of unfortunates would talk about their lives and invariably one or several of them would cry and the audience would vote and, and the winner would win, you know, new kitchen appliances or something like that. [BOTH SPEAK AT ONCE]

PETER HUDSON: That, that's - it sounds very similar. I've not seen that show, but the idea is very much the same; if people are not competing for a job, they're competing for a cash prize. The, the common denominator I think in all of these is, is desperation.

Krzysztof Kowalczyk: Blog your resume.

Tue, 03 Sep 2002 08:13:41 GMT

Krz insists that you must:

Blog your resume. This is how a typical resume looks like. My opinion is that it's impossible to tell anything from a typical resume. So a guy says he knows PHP. Does it mean that he's a PHP guru who has written 100k lines of PHP code or that he's just finished "Learn PHP in 15 minutes"? No way to tell. My idea: blog your resume. In addition to a standard resume keep a log of all the stuff you're learning and doing. E.g. if today you wrote a 5k lines perl script that spiders the web and extracts interesting info, you would to your log a dated entry:

Finished 5k line Perl script to spider the web. Used LWP::Simple module...

etc. Maintain focus and balance. We assume that this information will be read at some point in the future by someone who'll want to hire you. Don't put irrelevant information like what you've eaten for breakfast (maintain focus). Also don't post trivia like wrote 5 lines of Perl code to display "Hello world" (maintain balance). It's a win-win situation. Potential employer has a much better chance to assess your skills and experience. You'll have a better chance to showcase your skills and you'll have an edge over resumes that only say "Programming skills: C/C++, PHP". Of course you should start now, the day you're out of work is probably a few years late. Blogs are a good way to maintain this "extended resume". You might use categories (a feature of many blogging systems, e.g. Radio) to integrate this into your blogging flow.

Darned tootin'.

This gets the raw data in.

But it leaves you with editorial work.

The people who read "resumes" suffer from information overload. And it's getting worse.

Recording your daily/weekly accomplishments is incredibly useful. It helps communicate with your colleagues, customers, and supervisors. If you jot just two or three notes every day, in a year you've created a descriptive collage from hundreds of data points.

Your detailed trail of accomplishments is helpful to HR or a hiring manager only so far as you organize, categorize, connect, and summarize it.

For example, 15 different posts about your Perl scripting among 300 other posts are hidden and diffuse. You can keep the reader from drowning in detail with a one or two line summary, and a link to those 15 experiences (collected and organized and cleaned up).

Tech fix? Maybe livetopics plus Radio categories can help organize this material

Practical fix? Discipline. Review your posts monthly. Summarize and add to your CV.

[aka strategy]

Jon Udell: The blogging CxO.

Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:05:06 GMT

[aka klogs]

Thu, 29 Aug 2002 01:20:29 GMT