Come On Silicon Valley, We Can Provide a Better Rx for Jobs!
Fortune magazine has an article running that Techmemed about some advice Barrack Obama is getting about jobs from Silicon Valley Heavyweights like Kleiner VC John Doerr and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. They’re all about Education and Immigration Visa Reform as the path to creating jobs, along with plugs along the way for their own ventures. Here [...]
To Make Money, Be A Garbageman
Plumbers and garbagemen make a good living despite their lack of PHP coding skills. That’s because they’re willing to do the necessary but unpleasant.Basic economics teaches us that prices are determined by supply and demand. Scarce skills like being …
The lack of IT graduates has deep implications for the US Military
I am not a military expert – but as a follow on to yesterday’s very long blog entry on the Three Tiers of IT Workers and where the money is, there is some follow through that needs to be looked at.
Three Tiers of IT and where the money is going to be
One of the research projects I am working on is how schools, business and people align themselves to develop the skills needed for the workers we need today, and going into tomorrow. Like most forward projecting projects, the data gets fuzzier as you move deeper into the future, but there are some interesting aspects of [...]
Turn about is not fair play on the broken hiring process
We have all heard about the problems with finding the right employee for the jobs you are trying to fill. Usually from my vantage point as a hiring manager my biggest problems have been about resumes that did not make sense for the position being filled. It is very hard to go from an AA [...]
Is Hiring Fundamentally Broken?
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr For all of those who are looking for work, it has turned into a comedy of errors, omissions, and no answers from anyone if you were even considered for the position. When the rare thanks but no thanks message comes through via e-mail it makes us have to stop [...]
Reverse Brain Drain to India and China
America is a great place to start a company, there are no questions about that, and when Governments were busy making it harder to start a company, many immigrants came to America. Reports state that 52% of all Silicon Valley companies were started by Immigrants, and we have HP and Google as prime examples of [...]
Should the Junior level Professional Blog?
I’ve stolen the title from Chad Pursley, who devoted a post to the subject and asked the same question on my older post, Resumes are Dead. Social Media is Your New Resume: Right but to what extent is this a good thing and to what extent can it backfire? Does it change if like me [...]
So You Didn’t Make Millions: Don’t Quit Blogging Just Yet
Image via Wikipedia Do you know who Dan Lyons is? Of course .. Fake Steve Jobs. He just announced he’d quit blogging, since: While blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn’t one of them. But wait! Did you know Dan Lyons 3 years ago? I admit I didn’t. Perhaps it’s [...]
It’s Too Late to Start Networking When You’re Laid Off
Robert Scoble has a long laundry-list on how to effectively use social media in your job search if you are laid off. I agree with all but three points he makes: It’s a little late to start when you get laid off. Proactive brand creation before you really need it works a lot better. Roberts [...]
Resumes are Dead. Social Media is Your New Resume.
Just as I finished editing my Inbound Marketing piece I quickly scanned Google Reader and realized that David Meerman Scott and I were writing about one and the same thing. Except his post title is: Downsized? Fired? Here are the new rules of finding a job. Yes, the parallels are striking.; If you find yourself [...]
Inbound Marketing, Sales & Customer Advocacy
Connecting the dots is the tagline on my personal blog, for a good reason: I enjoy reading individual pieces and discovering the common theme in them. Such two articles are a guest post on CloudAve by a practicing SaaS CEO, Julian Shakespeare Stone: To Sell or Not To Sell, and Rick Burnes’s piece @ HubSpot [...]
Oh, I Want to be a Developer … in Boulder, Colorado
But I am not. Which is why I don’t qualify for this all expenses paid trip to Boulder: And the pitch: Boulder Needs More Kickass Developers Want a FREE trip to beautiful Boulder, Colorado? The Boulder tech scene is growing like crazy. Twenty of our top tech startups (you can see a few in the [...]
