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This morning I got a rather odd email purporting to be from LinkedIn‘s Marketing department. It made it through all my filters and the headers look reasonable, but based on the poor formatting of the email and the fact I’ve been on LinkedIn a long time, I don’t think it is completely on the level. [...]

Source: visual.ly via Career Enlightenment on Pinterest During my lengthy job search (I’m available) I’ve written and collected a lot of blog postings. Despite experts continuing to insist, you can blog your way to a new job, I’m not convinced that will work for everyone. So I’ve collected together in one place the best advice [...]

I’ve been unemployed for too long. There are obviously reasons for this, but if I had all the answers, I wouldn’t be unemployed now would I? I try to shore up my weaknesses and leverage my strengths. I spend a lot of time online reading ‘expert’ advice on what to do and what not to [...]

Since I upgraded to iOS 5 or shortly after when some of my main apps were upgraded I lost the ability to email links, tweets, and stories in multiple applications, this along with changes to the LinkedIn iOS app has resulted in me sharing less stories publicly and has probably contributed to my steadily decreasing [...]

Although I took the time to write an entire blog post on open source software, I realized I posed several questions, which I didn’t bother answering.  They weren’t exactly rhetorical, they were examples or at least indicative of the questions I’d been asked regarding open source software in job interviews. Remember I’m still unemployed! Despite [...]