Office Hours for Spring

Hi students, welcome back. My office hours this spring are basically going to be every day from 10am-12pm. You might want to give a call or send an email to me to make sure I'm here. Sometimes I step out for a coffee or something if it seems like a slow day. If you let me know you're coming over for a chat, I'll take you with me :)

resumes

Joel on Software "painless software management" has an interesting article this week called Getting Your Resume Read. It includes some pretty decent tips, including:

The personal pronoun "I" is always capitalized. All sentences must end in a period. If your cover letter looks like this I will not even look at your résumé:


i m interested in your summer job.
here is my resume
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Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!


And while I'm on it, anonymous email accounts and AOL accounts just don't send a good message. They won't exactly disqualify you since so many people use them, but crazydood2004 at hotmail.com does not really impress me as much as name at alumni.something.edu. Do you really need to know if I Yahoo!? Do you really want to advertise Yahoo! SiteBuilder, a competitor to one of Fog Creek's products, when you're actually applying for a job at Fog Creek?

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