I get a lot of questions from people who want to get a better job. They want to know if certification, training, or branching out will help them get the job of their dreams. These things just aren’t the real answer.
The answer is simple: the Buddy System. Learn why.
Knock the audience out by knowing how to end the presentation, how to use your blog as resource material, why you should avoid sentences on slides, how to get the attendees involved, and how to fire yourself up with inspiration.
Why do some interviewers insist on asking ridiculously impossible questions when they’re interviewing the most junior candidates? I explain why you should use questions people can actually answer, and quit trying to hit the lotto.
If you’re hiring someone who will be storing data in a database, here’s how to find out if they know what they’re doing. Includes questions like, “Explain referential integrity and where it can be enforced,” and “What’s the fastest way to get a thousand records into the database?”
