The company I work for has a lot of SMB websites to produce over the next three or four months so we’re looking for a client-side developer to come in and help us out for a short term. I placed an ad on a few websites with details of what we’re looking for, and waited for the applications to come in.
When they did, I was shocked. The majority of them were terrible. From the introductory email to the CV to the examples provided, only one or two were good enough for consideration.
To pass on advice to prospective job seekers (and hopefully make my job a little easier in future), here are five tips for applying for a job in web development:
Over at A List Apart they’re asking people in the web industry to participate in their first annual web design survey, to try and build up a profile of who we are and what we do.
I’m off on holiday — back towards the end of April. I’ve written a new post for CSS3.info before I go: Kill IE6 to let CSS3 live.
I’ve moved to my new domain: www.Broken-Links.com (no, I don’t like the hyphen either). RSS Feeds should be updated automatically, and all old links should redirect here… fingers crossed…
This design is a work in progress, but I was forced to bring it into action early as the previous theme was annoying me! Apologies to visitors using IE6, as I haven’t had the chance to make it fully compatible yet; mind you, you really should upgrade!
I’m working on a new theme for the site, and accidentally overwrote the stylesheet on this one, forcing me to revert back to the only saved version I have — an old, unfinished version. Pardon the way the site looks for a few days.
Usually when I attend @media (that is, on two previous occasions) I write a follow-up blog post on what I saw there. Well I attended this year, and I’ve written the post, but it’s on the blog of my employer, Preloaded: HTML5, Mobile, and UCD: what we saw at @media.
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