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General

job tips for geeks

Questions to ask your future web dev employer - largely based on a list of questions Joel Spolsky came up with, but recontextualized for web development.

Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs?

Areas

CV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum_vitae - provides an overview of a person's experience and other qualifications. In some countries, a CV is typically the first item that a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview, when seeking employment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Résumé - a document used by persons to present their backgrounds and skills. Résumés can be used for a variety of reasons, but most often they are used to secure new employment. A typical résumé contains a summary of relevant job experience and education. The résumé is usually one of the first items, along with a cover letter and sometimes an application for employment, which a potential employer sees regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview. The résumé is comparable to a curriculum vitae (CV) in many countries. However, it is substantially shorter than a CV in English Canada, the U.S. and Australia. In French, résumé means summary.

Guides

CV vs. Resume: The Difference And When To Use Which

Why won’t anyone talk to me? What recruiters look for in a resume

Redditors who work in Human Resources, what red flags on a resume or cover letter will prevent a candidate from getting a call back? -serious-

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-glimpse-and-a-hook/

Examples

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/cvexamples.htm

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/example_cvs.htm

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/cvsamples/a/blsamplecv.htm

http://www.mcw.edu/Medical-School/Student-Affairs/Residency-Match-Process/Curriculum-Vitae-Samples.htm

Services

Resumonk - CV creation service

CVsIntellect Resume Specialist is a free online resume builder that helps you create jaw-dropping, killer resumes that never fail to impress, within minutes.

resume.io - Crazy-simple online resumes.

Creddle résumés are both websites and paper résumés. [1]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8809626

Systems

http://microformats.org/wiki/h-resume

http://jsonresume.org/ [2]

https://mszep.github.io/pandoc_resume/ [3]

Covering letter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_letter

http://www.cv-library.co.uk/coveringletteradvice.html

A job application is usually accompanied by a cover letter, which provides a supplementary overview of why you are suitable for the role. A cover letter is a great way to introduce yourself and your CV when applying for a specific position. They are generally one page at most in length, divided into a header, introduction, body, and closing. They should follow some key points:

Reference where you learnt about the role and organisation
Explain why you are sending the application
Convince the reader to look at your CV
Reflect your attitudes, skills and passions

http://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/content/cover-letter-guide

Content

Creative Market is a platform for handcrafted, mousemade design content

ThemeForest - Site Templates and Themes

Job seeking

https://www.gov.uk/jobsearch

myjobscotland.gov.uk - Scottish local government jobs

Indeed.co.uk -- good aggergator

http://www.scotcareers.co.uk/

Test Ninjas - Freelance Software Testers - A Community of Freelancers Who Love To Test

http://www.mixcloud.com/jobs

http://www.albavolunteers.com/

http://availability.is/ [4]

Stack Overflow Careers 2.0 UK

Technojobs - specialist IT and Technical jobsite.

The IT Job Board

Current IT Jobs UK - listing IT Jobs in the UK

https://www.truejob.com/users/sign_up [5]

https://snap.hr/

http://stuckforstaff.co.uk/

Gumtree

Freelance

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063309

oDesk is the world's largest and fastest-growing online workplace, ranked #1 by annual contractor earnings.

Freelancer.com is the world's largest outsourcing marketplace
- http://www.freelancer.com/jobs/Drupal/
- http://www.freelancer.com/jobs/Wordpress/

Elance
- https://www.elance.com/s/wordcrofting/?rid=32FMG - Dani

FreelanceSwitch - costs to reply

Rent a coder

XING
- Search results for: edinburgh

PeoplePerHour

Freelancers Outpost

REMOJōBO! - The remote job board for web nerds
fossjobs.net
btcworkers - bitcoin freelancing

http://www.reddit.com/r/forhire

Working with Talent markets – oDesk, Elance, Freelancer, Guru, vWorker [6]

Fruit & veg picking

Picking Jobs - the international job site linking employers with seasonal workers -

Small task

Mechanical Turk
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8005744

Interview

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11449133

https://cternus.net/blog/2017/10/10/questions-i-m-asking-in-interviews-2017/ [8]

https://gist.github.com/coleifer/2865863d9a62ad334088

https://github.com/viraptor/reverse-interview - This is a list of questions which may be interesting to a tech job applicant. The points are not ordered and many may not apply to a given position, or work type. It was started as my personal list of questions, which grew over time to include both things I'd like to see more of and red flags which I'd like to avoid. I've also noticed how few questions were asked by people I interviewed and I think those were missed opportunities.