| By Yakov Fain |
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| May 25, 2012 03:04 PM EDT |
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I’ve recorded this video about IT career based on my last week’s talk at the Java developers conference in Kiev, Ukraine. This is not a technical presentation, so anybody can listen to it. You may not agree with what I say, but hey, it’s my today’s opinion formed during my rather long career in IT.
In this presentation I touch upon the following subjects:
- The process of looking for a job (sending the resume, passing the interview, considering a offer, discussing the salary)..
- What’s the difference in interviewing Ukrainian and American programmers.
- Comparing employees and contractors.
- Are you really a senior developer?
- Keeping your skills up to date.
You can watch the video here. If you prefer, just download the mp3 and listen to it on the go. Back in 2008, I self-published a free e-Book titled “Enterprise Development Without the BS“, which is also covering IT career subjects. Give it a read.
Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Yakov co-athored the O'Reilly book "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.
