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A couple of points that should help you out.
1) Think in terms of value.
- What value do you bring to the table?
- Why do they value Teams? (what would YOU value about being on a Team?)
- Value Honesty? (But only positives. I blew an interview by criticizing an ex-ex-ex boss!)
- Why do they want to spend all that money on someone? Why should it be you?
(You said you were self-motivated, and continued to learn/study)
2) Your CV should NOT be a check list of skills, but a statement of IMPACT.
- NOT: Wrote reports for management.
- YES: Redesign reports into a dashboard, improving user experience, and reducing paper waste!
- The latter has IMPACT in it. YOU GET PAID FOR IMPACT!
- This is where the "bragging" comes in. You have to lift up what you have done.
3) Have questions.
- Do you have Team Activities to foster better Teamwork?
- Do you have brown bag lunches where Team members share about their recent learns?
- How do you handle Developer Conferences and training?
- Is there a Team Library of books that the team recommends everyone on the team read?
- Is your Team Cooperative or Competitive?
See... Just asking the right questions... But test them on other people before using them!
here are 3 to think about (Not all questions are good!):
- Do you want me to Kick Butt AND Take Names?
- How does your Team handle Conflict Resolution?
- How do I report a Team member for breaking the rules?
4) Ask yourself up lifting questions before your walk in. Questions you know, and will answer EXTREMELY positively. And ask them, and answer them, in your head. To increase your confidence.
(This is to override the self-doubt questions we all ask ourselves constantly)
- If they hire me, how hard will I work to make sure they realize it was a GREAT DECISION?
- What will I do to make this company better?
- Will I be here on-time?
- Will I rise to any challenge?
- Will they love my passion? My Energy? (for me, find better ones for you?)
these questions should elicit your feelings of competence. What you are strong at.
If you can't find any. THIS is where your lack of self-confidence is coming from.
Find a weak one, and build from there:
- Will I give it my best?
- Would it be great to get this gig?
If you can't answer YES to that one. Practice saying "Would you like fries with that?" LOL
The point is simple. The company is in NEED of a developer to make an ASSET worth money to them.
You are in NEED of someone who needs to hire a builder so you can eat, but also so you can build things you enjoy building?
Now, there is ONE of them. And many of you. How can you stand out as a clear choice?
- Show some enthusiasm
- Know your stuff
- Be able to explain what you have done with passion (hitting on the IMPACT).
- Show that you are adaptable, and you are POSITIVE.
- Know THEIR values. Get to their values?
- Avoid divisive topics (Politics, Religion, CODE FORMATTING RULES!)
Finally, during the interview. Since you are an introvert, you probably don't blurt out answers. But make sure 2 things:
1) If it is a good question: MEMORIZE IT for later practice
2) Tie your answer BACK to your CV when you can:
Have you ever had to optimize a complex query written by someone else?
Absolutely. In fact, that first job I listed, XYZ, I walked in cold, and took over for a developer who was gone. I had to learn the whole system, and immediately work out a slow query slowing down the website. It became a priority. Once I understood the query, I XXXXX and it was appreciated so much, my boss took me to lunch to thank me...
Notice how wordy that is. Because as an introvert. Your normal answer would be:
Yeah, sure.
But can you spot the differences? Mine is long-winded, but you got to know me. It says:
- Team Player
- Can learn Quickly
- Can work Priorities
- Likes to be appreciated
- Is social
- Not awkward around management
I used to interview people a lot. People with experience make the interview about a blend of THEM and WHAT they can do for me. New people are about buzzwords and tech, and HOPE.
I really hope this helps... Sorry it is so long.
Also, stating your Country (Probably UK because you use CV and not Resume) can be helpful. I am stateside, so we are a bit more aggressive. Adjust accordingly.
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I find it extremely interesting that no one suggested using LinkedIn.
I've been gradually refining my LinkedIn page. I sometimes update it before doing the resume update.
A web developer should be able present himself (or herself) favorably on a LinkedIn page.
I (and I suspect others) would be willing to have a look at it and offer suggestions.
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Quote: forced to post by wife Oh dear, after all these years posting, is that really you Peter.
How can we be sure now...
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter posted: I forced to post it by wife...
How the mighty have fallen...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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We're not one bit sorry for you Peter. You have seen the stuff that Griff's cat is forcing him to post!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Better plant that tree now
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When will you guys learn, Her Indoors is always in charge. That's how the marriage lasts.
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That's what I mean! My bachelor life has been over for 54 coming up 55 years. I've got that hang-dog, downtrodden look. But then so does everyone else that's lasted that long.
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There has to be some solution ...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Alcohol?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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on error resume next...just deal with whatever bad happens and move on.
warning...does not work with fatal errors!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I think a non-zero intersection begins to show itself with age.
/ravi
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absolutely,
life is requirement and event driven,
and trying to produce acceptable output with the limited input and tools on hand.
OP claiming life skills and development skills have no overlap means he's doing one or the other very wrong, either should find a job he can do, or get a life.
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Lopatir wrote: OP claiming life skills and development skills have no overlap means he's doing one or the other very wrong, either should find a job he can do, or get a life. Actually, the OP has excellent developer and life skills. He posted a joke.
/ravi
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There are switch cases but the default conditions never work.
modified 15-Jul-17 22:58pm.
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The best overlap is a cat.
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Both Life skills and developer skills are themselves disjoint sets.
Ex 1: My cooking skills have nothing in common with my driving skills, unless you consider pressing the recirculate air button on my car when behind a stinky truck in the same life skill as turning on the overhead blower when I burn something on the stove.
Ex 2: My Javascript skills (or lack thereof!) have nothing in common with figuring out which arcane set of options I need for this particular WCF interface to authenticate with that web service, unless you consider my swearing to be a common developer skill between the two
Marc
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Swearing is sublime! It transcends (and improves!) all skills!
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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The impermanence is reflected in society in many subtle ways.A single dramatic example is the impact of the knowledge explosion on that classic knowledge container,the book.
As knowledge has become more plentiful add less permanent,we have witnessed the virtual disappearance of the solid durable leather binding,replaced at first by cloth and later by paper covers.The book itself,like much of the information it holds,has become more transient
A decade ago,communications systems designer Sol Cornberg,a radial prophet in the field of library technology,declared that reading would soon cease to be a primary form of information intake,”Reading and writing” he suggested “will become obsolete skills”(Ironically,Mr. Cornberg’s wife is a novelist)
Whether or not he is correct,one fact is plain:the incredible expansion of knowledge implies that each book(alas,this one included) contains a progressively smaller fraction of all that is known.And the paper back revolution,by making inexpensive editions available everywhere,lessens the scarcity value of the book at precisely the very moment that the increasingly rapid obsolescence of knowledge lessens its long term information value.Thus,in the united states a paperback appears,simultaneously on more than 100,000 newsstands,only to be swept away by another wave of publication delivered a mere thirty days later.The book thus approaches the transience of the monthly magazine,indeed,many books are no more than “one-shot” magazines.
At the same time,the public’s span of interest in a book -even a popular book-is shrinking-thus for example,the life span of best sellers on The New York times list is rapidity declining.There are marked irregularities from year to year for which full data on the subject is available,1953-1956,and compare this with a similar period one decade later,1963-1966,we find the average best seller in the earlier period remained on the list a full 18.8 weeks.A decade later this had shrunk to 15.7 within a ten – year – period,the life expectancy of the average best seller had shrunk by nearly on sixth.
We can understand such trends only if we grasp the elemental underlying truth.We are witnessing a historic process that will inevitably change mans psyche.For across the board,from cosmetics to cosmology,from twiggy-type trivia to the triumphant facts of technology,our inner images of reality,responding to the acceleration of change outside ourselves,are becoming shorter lived,more temporary.We are creating and using up ideas and images at a faster and faster pace.Knowledge,like people,places,things and organizations forms,is become disposable.
– Alvin Toffler – Future Shock(1970)
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: A decade ago,communications systems designer Sol Cornberg,a radial prophet in the field of library technology,declared that reading would soon cease to be a primary form of information intake,”Reading and writing” he suggested “will become obsolete skills”(Ironically,Mr. Cornberg’s wife is novelist) Such ideas one gets once thinking is obsolete; there is no alternative to "reading and writing", even if the youtube-bloggers would imply so. Without an alternative (and no, emoticons aren't) it will not be replaced or obsoleted.
abmv wrote: The book thus approaches the transience of the monthly magazine,indeed,many books are no more than “one-shot” magazines. Not just due to the reader; there is also a supply-side that saturates the market with "new" titles. Take a look at the books in IT, explaining the difference between .NET4.5 and .NET4.51.
abmv wrote: We can understand such trends only if we grasp the elemental underlying truth No, that way lie leaky abstractions. There is no truth, merely observation.
People still like stories - but the paperback is no match in storytelling compared to a cinema. People still like books, but I can't CTRL-F in a paperback. Though I prefer paper over PDF, I must admit that it is nice to copy/paste the examples.
..outside "us" having a cheaper medium than paper, not much has changed.
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Could you please reduce that to a 140 character tweet with words that the President can understand?
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
modified 16-Jul-17 17:10pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Could you please reduce that to a 140 word That's going to be a looooonnnnggg tweet
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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