Dear Sir or Madam, I have your resume here in my hand and couldn’t help but notice that you have listed several versions of SQL Server in the experience section. You may be an interviewee for a position in SQL Server, a .NET, or some other IT related discipline. Regardless of which particular job you’re […]
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Answer the Question Asked
“Bill, are you running SQL R2 on your desktop?” This seems like a simple enough question, yet I usually cannot get an answer to a question like this on the first try. Why? The simple answer is that people don’t hear the question you ask. People hear a question through filters. What this means to me […]
How to Build a Resume (that doesn’t suck)
Resumes are like opinions, which are like something else: everybody’s got one. And if you don’t have one, then certain key functions are very hard to perform. In this case, not having a resume makes the job-getting difficult. We’ve talked about resumes, and even reviewed a few, on the show (here and here) and on […]