PHP Developer / Blog

I’ve had a personal website which has included my resume since the late 90s. It’s always had periodic traffic from recruiters who stumbled upon it via search engines. Over the past few years I have had a lot of interest in organic traffic. I decided to implement some of what we learned at Photagious to my personal site so I could continue to get a better understanding of how my site fits into the rest of the web. Proof is in the pudding and these tips landed me a job at Yahoo!. (more…)

Seth Godin recently posted in his blog about reasons for having (or more precisely not having) a resume. He says “I think if you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all.” I don’t completely disagree Seth. If all you have is a resume then his point is well stated. You’ll end up getting contacted by companies “for you to get a job as a cog in a giant machine.” (more…)