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Thursday, April 1st, 2004
8:59 pm	More on networking Thirteen Networking Mistakes by Dan Woog (Monster Contributing Writer) Using a Silly-Sounding Email Name Sure, your friends know you as “SexyMama4U” or “TimeForHemp,” but when looking for work, stick to a serious email address, such as your real name. (Comment on this)
8:03 pm	Communication gap Прихожу раз утром в понедельник на работу в тогда-еще-стартап, начальник - основатель компании начинает мне объяснять мои задачи с клиентом. А клиент-то в Хьюстоне. Я переспрашиваю. Ой, говорит, это у нас communication gap получился, со всеми обо всем договорились, а тебе забыли сказать. Ты сегодня летишь в Хьюстон, вот и билеты. Что поделаешь, пришлось срочно ехать обратно домой паковать зубную щетку и костюмов на неделю. (Comment on this)
6:45 pm	Dangers and opportunities of the brave new world - rape fantasy chat site gets one into jail According to court documents Howard broke into the home of a woman with whom he thought he had set up an encounter on what was described as a "rape fantasy" chat site. After he entered the wrong apartment, he hit and struggled with the 25-year-old woman inside, who told law enforcement officials she thought she was going to be killed. The victim stopped the attack by yelling and attacking Howard's testicles. Howard then asked for the name the victim used in the chat room and she responded by saying she had never visited a chat room and did not have a personal computer. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
5:15 pm	Пароль - "yes" Мой босс объясняет мне задачу (безо всякой, надо заметить, подготовки): - Тебя будет интервьюировать наш потенциальный клиент, отвечай все как есть, а потом он тебя спросит "Поедешь ли ты на две недели в Миннесоту?" На этот вопрос надо ответить "Да". - Ugh? - Я понимаю, что ты не хочешь ехать на две недели в Миннесоту. - Там, поди, и нет ничего, кроме этого клиента... - Да, конечно. Но всегда можно что-нибудь придумать. Проект всегда можно отменить. - Угу. You bid on it, you win it and then you just cancel it. - Тебе не придется туда ехать. Главное, скажи "Да", а то мы не получим этот проект. Это не ты поедешь в Миннесоту. Или ты, но не на две недели. Только скажи "Да". - Я скажу "Да". А что еще можно ответить тому, кто платит тебе деньги? Так что там, в Миннесоте? Это ведь даже не в Миннеаполисе. State symbols: Напиток - молоко Бабочка - монарх Птица - гагара обыкновенная Камень - агат Muffin - blueberry Грибы как раз вылезают по весне... вот такие - </a> А по вечерам - в театр... (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 21st, 2004
4:55 pm	Spam news Today's tip: Never click on a URL or web site listed in this spam - this will also alert the sender that your email address is valid. (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 20th, 2004
11:59 pm	My ROSR concept got complete buy-in Three of us are having a business meeting. All of a sudden the top rank guy breaks the flow and says: - By the way, speaking of these random offensive sexual... When I traveled to Russia, I saw this ad of women's underwear - nice butt in thong bikini by days, Monday, Tuesday, etc. and then the same nice butt, bare - "weekend free". And then he goes on with the business agenda. (Comment on this)
11:55 pm	ROSR at it's best Me and colleague of mine (opposite sex) prepare to travel to client site with over night stay. Our office admin asks at once: - Two rooms for one night or one room for two nights? (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 18th, 2004
10:27 pm	Equal-opportunity employer Filed a job application on Thomson Financials web site. Skipped Race/Ethnic Identification drop-down 'cause I believe it to be irrelevant for the purpose of job search. Next thing I receive from them is this: Our records indicate that you have not yet responded to our EEO/Affirmative Action query for [position name]. To help us comply with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity record keeping, reporting, analysis purposes and other legal requirements, we invite you to click here and provide this information. If you have already provided this information to us for other applications and do not wish to update/modify it, please disregard this request. Important - Applicants Please Read Qualified applicants will be considered for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical, or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. Again, to help us comply with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity record keeping, reporting, analysis purposes and other legal requirements, we request that you complete this data information questionnaire. Please Note - Completion of this form is voluntary Refusal to complete this information will not subject any applicant to adverse treatment. The information that you provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file, separate from all other records. This information will not be used for employment purposes or in connection with your application. Thank you for your interest in ** UNRESOLVED **. Best regards, Human Resource Department ** UNRESOLVED ** HR What the heck UNRESOLVED is supposed to mean in the context of a job application? Looked kind of threatening to me. So I picked whatever is appropriate from drop-down list - and they happily stated that now the form is complete. I suspect what they do is ILLEGAL. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 16th, 2004
10:58 pm	Revenge, sweet revenge - at work place Crafted a letter to a vendor who exhausted everyone's patience by legal issues. Here it goes, edited for confidentiality sake: After careful consideration we decided to pass on the opportunity to have you among our preferred providers. We also regret the fact that you won't be among the regular vendors. Since the same questions from you keep coming up again and again, we don't see efficient means of bringing this to closure. We fully acknowledge you as a credible company with a broad customer base. We'll definitely keep your information on file for future reference should the opportunity in different technology/business space arise. Sincere regards, -- (Comment on this)
Monday, March 15th, 2004
11:18 pm	IT got ME in my dream I had a dream. You would think it was something hot, the kind of a dream you don't want to wake up from? The moment it started I knew it was a dream. Why? Because in this dream of mine I got an e-mail from someone who could not possibly e-mail me. And whom would you think that might be? A hot male/female I has been after for years? No f*king way. It was from some software vendor I was trying to reach to no avail for quite some time, leaving messages with the secretary and sending e-mail offers with deadline extension. His dream e-mail said literally: "Please ask your boss to order you stop harassing me". My job got me in my dream. (Comment on this)
Friday, March 5th, 2004
7:36 pm	Lawyers at work (Crime, Law and Justice) MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut (AP) -- A woman charged with causing a fatal car crash in 1999 says that she couldn't have been behind the wheel because she was performing a sex act on the driver at the time. ( You have to read it all ) ( Beware, adult content in Russian, enter at your own risk ) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
8:00 pm	Why we are not in porno business? This is the message I got from my associate today in response to some tech clarification: "This is surprise for me. I was sure that we are in porno business. Damn." I realized just now that this confusion is exactly what kept him going for all these years. I, me alone, inadvertently removed this powerful motivation from his professional life. What do I do now? Update: had a promosing discussion re porno business in Russia with my American friend. He suggests it’s a very lucrative niche there both due to high demand and low cost of implementation. (Comment on this)
7:42 pm	Interview tips - tough questions Here is recruiter's advise regrading you closing the interview with a tough question. It very much makes sense to me, just embarrass the heck out of them so they remember you all right: Kirch says it's profoundly disappointing in interviews to “get to the end and say, "Do you have any questions I can answer for you?" and they say, "Nope, I think you answered them all," and that's the end of it. It's just really disappointing and reflects negatively on the candidate.” Include developing a tough question to finish things off in your preparation. “For me, I just love it when someone asks a really difficult question -- something that takes some guts to ask, asking really well-thought-out questions that show you know the business that that interviewer is in,” says Kirch. “You know their company to some extent, and you've thought about your question. It all goes back to preparation, and it tells the interviewer you thought about this interview before you walked in the door.” The toughest opening question I encountered at the interview was: - Have you found the place and parked all right? I neither had driver's licenses at that time not knew how to drive. Also it was virtually impossible to park for free in the area (Boston City center). Since we were short on cash, my S.O. was making rounds for an hour till I got our of the interview. Needless to say this was before mobile phones era. So the question which was meant to make me feel at ease embarrassed the heck out of me since I had to start my interview with a lie. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004
1:10 pm	ROSR - introduction My boss tells me in the hallway - you know, this hot Internet bubble company, NerveWire was acquired by some Indian company. And now imagine how these Indians will [...] NerveWire. And he makes passionate obscene movements to illustrate his thought. I'm like - uhm, what's that? - Random offensive sexual remarks just to keep the show going (c)? As we chat in the hallway our tech guru walks by and mutters for himself: - Random offensive sexual remarks... ROSR! (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 26th, 2004
2:17 pm	Business cards If you are in job search mode, never seize to carry a bunch of business cards in your purse, inside your sleeves or in your bra. Why do it? This may happen anywhere – in the mall, at the children B-day party, at the gas station, in the waiting area at the dental office, even at official job-search networking event or career fair. You may bump into someone you kind of knew in your “other” life – life of career person. Or you may meet someone new but interested in talking to you. So, you make a small talk followed by your 1 ½ -minute job-search-related drill (elevator speech, a they call it) and then what? They remember your name and call you when something comes up? Or you prefer to rely on scratching your name and e-mail on this yellow sticky note or rather on this envelope you’ve got in the mail few months ago with your bank statement and just never got to recycling it? Remember – you are a professional, don’t be sloppy in small things. This is something you can afford at low cost. Logistics If you are lucky to have a permanent employer or even some on-and-off part-time / contractual employer who won't mind supplying you with business cards - use those, these are the best kind. If you are independent self-employed professional (never say "unemployed", this scares people away) or "employed" by a registered company that exists on paper and may even has a web page - you ought to take care of your business cards yourself. There are many way to get business cards cheap if not for just cost of shipping / printing. If you have access to a color printer, you can purchase blank business cards and print them yourself. Or you can use professional printing services, for example VistaPrint. Find more info on SmallBizManager. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 24th, 2004
8:12 pm	Свои преимущества и недостатки - есть у работы на дому. Вы можете иметь секс на свежую голову. Потом на эту голову сядут выпущенные из детских учреждений дети. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
4:58 pm	Job search routine (Sample) Job search daily routine No. Activity Expected time Frequency Outcome 1 Typing tutor 30 min Daily WPM 35 2 Visit search engines* Create search agents </o:p> 45 min Daily Identify at least 3? job postings to respond to 3 Respond to job postings w/cover letter 45 min Daily Send out at least 1? Resume 4 Record / file results of 3, 4 On the fly Daily Filed 5 Press analysis** to identify active employers 15 min Daily Update “Hot employers” list 6 Check job postings on websites from “Hot employers” list 15 min Daily Identify jobs 7 Send out resumes as appropriate for 6. Insider contacts??? 15 min Daily Resumes sent 8 Scan press for job search events (Job Fairs, networking, Microsoft or Oracle events) 15 min Daily Schedule 1 event a week from the list </o:p> *Job Search engines: MONSTER HOTJOBS BOSTON WORKS CRAIGLIST Collecting them in one html page along with your search parameters will help, see sample Job Search Links for Sysadmin ** Press: Internet: Paper: (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 21st, 2004
10:39 pm	Networking as a job search tool Attend any job search seminar, visit any decent job search site, talk to people - you'll know that networking is a key in successful job search. From optimistic point of view, you are actually doing what is called “networking” by the virtue of doing the above. From realistic point of view, this is not enough. You need to reestablish contact with people you worked with but vaguely remember or those you bumped into during the joyful years of employment at company-sponsored professional courses or conferences. You need to socialize with your kind at local networking events for technical / management / whatever-is-your-specialty folks (don’t forget to have a bunch of business cards handy). You have to join on-line networks such as Monster Networking that allows you to connect with people from the companies you worked for, people you went to school with, people with your kind of skill set, occupation and those found via keyword search. For computer geeks the latter could be the best – virtual connections are something they are accustomed to while mingling with people after motivational speaker lecture at real-life networking event / during a lunch break at free-of-charge Microsoft course could be a bit of a stretch or just plainly less efficient. Keep socializing this way or another. And don’t forget to attach the most recent version of your resume to your Seasons greetings e-mails (this leading to your e-mails being processed by a smart filter and directed to the Trash folder). Well, analyze your options and pick top three that work for you. And don’t overdo it the way people will be as scared of you as they are of a vacuum cleaner sales person. (Comment on this)
Friday, February 20th, 2004
11:35 pm	Есть или не есть? Бизнес-ланч с начальством или клиентом может оказаться палкой о двух концах - например, взамен того, чтобы наслаждаться обеденным перерывом и, собственно, едой, вам придется вести беседу в стиле теннисного матча (мячик туда, мячик сюда), вдобавок вы будете записывать комментарии собеседника, в то время как ланч ваш остынет и потеряет всякую привлекательность. Привлекательность и без того сомнительную, потому что в случае ланча с начальством вы можете обнаружить себя в корпоративной столовке с дешевым запахом, и вовсе не из-за ее дешевизны, а из-за минимальной удаленности от места работы. А выход, выход какой? Нет ответа. (Comment on this)
11:04 pm	Agenda - #1:End-of-project deliverables Job-search effort tastes better when undertaken as a project. Project is different from other activities - the project has beginning and the end. The end! Even if you do not find a job by the end of this project, you may part with other participants if not fully satisfied then at least with some tangible outcome in your hands. Job search project: End-of-project deliverables 1. Job search daily routine 2. List of Internet and Paper Press for “Hot employers” search 3. Cover-letter kit 4. Tough questions awareness kit 5. Gap analysis (skills vs. job market, skills vs. dream job) and action items 6. Two versions of perfect resume based on current / near future skill set 7. Arrangement for routine follow-up (transferring project into maintenance phase) (Comment on this)