Photo by Liam Truong on Unsplash Last year something weird happened. I started to notice every other cold recruiter email opener has the word "impressed" in it. Obviously at first I was flattered that strangers were impressed by my experience. But then everyone started using this exact word in the same way and it started to feel really bizarre and fake. Plus, let's be honest my background is not…
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When everyone suddenly started using "Impressed" as an opener
October 22, 2019
Rating Cold Emails As A Developer
October 19, 2019
Photo by Carol Jeng on Unsplash When I started building ITeach Recruiters I asked some of friends who are software engineers to start forwarding me cold emails they got from recruiters that really stood out either in a negative or positive light. Personally, I think cold emails are really great. I would much rather get a cold email than a cold phone call, it is so much less intrusive. I don't even…
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How To Read Github Profiles For Recruiters
October 16, 2019
Github is a place developers can view, share and collaborate on code. It is known for hosting open source projects and being the center of development for essentially the majority of major open source web technologies. Git is a version control system developed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. A version control system is a piece of software that helps to manage source code. Git is by far…
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Why Does JavaScript have so many names?
October 11, 2019
The JavaScript ecosystem is confusing for everyone that doesn't do JavaScript for a living. There are so many names for all of the flavors, versions, libraries and frameworks involved in writing JavaScript. This is a quick read that should help set it (a little) straight. First some history, and background. In the beginning (1995) there was JavaScript in the browser. You can think of this as…
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GraphQL vs Graph Databases for Recruiters
October 06, 2019
Unlike the Java Vs JavaScript topic I tackled last week, these two are not even in the same category. But I have heard both recruiters and inexperienced developers confuse these topics more than once so the confusion must be real and I figured I would address it. What is GraphQL GraphQL is a data transfer protocol like REST (I will do a post about REST at some point). In many ways it is a…
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Mobile Vs Web Developers a Guide for Recruiters
October 03, 2019
Today, web developers are probably not mobile developers, and inverse might be true as well. I remember when I first started writing software professionally, this was just after smartphones were really getting popular and everyone was making iOS and Android apps. Up until that point I had been doing LAMP stack - Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (and of course, JavaScript on the UI), which is plain…
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Java Vs JavaScript The Definitive Guide For Recruiters
September 28, 2019
Java Vs JavaScript is something people outside of tech mix up all of the time
and it is especially disconcerting as a developer to hear your prospective recruiter confuse these technologies since they are so different. I surveyed developers about why they don't respond to recruiters, I'll give you a direct quote here: Recruiters probably should have industry experience. There’s too much of a…
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Frontend Vs Backend Developers (for Recruiters)
September 24, 2019
One big dividing line between developers that I'm not sure all tech recruiters have a full grasp of is the difference between frontend and backend web developers. Generally speaking this is a divide between responsibilities that defines the type of work a developer is doing. There is also the concept of a "fullstack" developer (which I consider myself to be, with some caveats), which I will…
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August 2019 Tech Recruiter Survey Results
September 23, 2019
Last month I surveyed 24 Tech Recruiters in preparation to build ITeach Recruiters (which will be an online video course, and no, it's not finished yet). A big part of even deciding to go ahead and build the site and course was reading the responses in this survey and seeing that I could help solve a real problem. Most of the respondents here were recruiters who had previously contacted me on…
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