Looking for Advice

[Madison Kelly]

I guess the first thing I should do is to start building a list of firms
around the GTA big enough to need support techs and whom use Linux (I want
to avoid going back to MS in a big way! :) ). DO you (or anyone else) know
of some listing of firms that have partially or fully shifted towards
Linux in the area? I can't see why such a list would exist but I guess it
doesn't hurt to ask.

Madison

> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Madison Kelly wrote:
>>   So my question is, how have some of you gone about getting a job when
>> you have no paper work but are good at what you do? How do you get a
>> given company to even respond to your resume?
>
> Basically, you have to think "pull" rather than "push":  you need somebody
> at the company telling the H.R. department "I want to see MK's resume even
> if it doesn't look like he's qualified".  H.R. departments generally don't
> understand technical people but do understand credentials.  If you don't
> have credentials and aren't well enough known for reputation alone to get
> you in the door, you need to develop contacts.
>
> (Actually, those three cases boil down to two:  the reputation seldom does
> the job by itself, it just makes it easier to acquire contacts.)
>
>                                                           Henry Spencer
>                                                        henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
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