Stressed? It’s Not the Industry, It’s Your Employer

Blog posts and discussion threads about the overwhelming stress felt by those in the software industry seem increasingly popular of…

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How To Leave Your Job: Preparation, Resignation, and Transition

Making the decision to leave an employer and submitting a resignation is typically an emotional experience, and can be stressful…

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On Job Titles: Juniors, Roman Numerals, and the Elusive “Python Architect”

As I spent the last week of 2015 updating some database records on my candidate network, I began to notice…

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When Job Hopping Goes Wrong

While surfing a thread about a potential job change in Reddit’s /r/cscareerquestions (DISCLOSURE: I’m a mod), I read the following…

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The Recruiter Manifesto

It’s no secret that many agency recruiters behave unethically. As much as I enjoy getting paid to help companies grow…

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Is Your Employer a “Best Place To Work” For Developers?

Glassdoor recently released their Best Places to Work 2016/Employees Choice Awards, and as you would expect the top of the list…

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How to READ a Job Posting

After reading a recent article on DZone about writing developer job postings I started thinking about how job seekers often…

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What Are the Key Skills to Being a CTO?

You may have noticed that we’ve chatted with a lot of really smart people through our Inside Look interview series.…

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Pythonistas, Rubyists, and Gophers: Hiring Preferences Across Language Camps

For many years I recruited exclusively for clients that were seeking to hire Java developers and architects at all levels.…

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