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http://volkan.io/http://o2js.com/interview-questionsme parecio interesante compartir... lo mio es un apostolado ;-)
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From: Volkan Özçelik <
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Date: Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:16 PM
Subject: [JSMentors] [OFF-TOPIC] How to land a job in another country (was:
Re: Willing to relocate and looking for job change)
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Hi all,
I have written a book on how land a successful JavaScript Engineering job;
and in that regard I've had chance to talk to a lot of recruiters and
decision-makers. I've been on the other side of the desk (as a
decision-maker) too. So I have a fair understanding on how the overall
process works.
The process (getting a foreign company sponsor your working visa) is not
impossible.
However you should do your homework well.
Assuming that this is a global community, and there might be other
interested individuals, I'd like to give Narendra a little more
constructive feedback, so that anyone who's interested in such issues might
have an idea on how things works.
> I am a Indian and I am a Frontend Expert, with capabily to develop large
scale single page application from scratch.
Along with everyone else's suggestion (i.e. searching the right places like
stackoverflow careers, hackernews "who's hiring", whitetruffle, startup
jobs, monster, linkedin etc...) I would also suggest to be a little humble.
Especially if you are seeking for a job at the silicon valley, the person
who would be interviewing with you might have experience in scaling
websites over million transactions per day, or creating hadoop clusters
that you could see in your dreams, he might have applied for several
patents in areas like big data, graph theory etc. -- The point I'm trying
to come is claiming that you are an expert, in the vicinity of them would
be naive at best.
I can totally see that this might be a cultural thing. And especially it's
not well received in the American (any many European) culture(s).
My approach is, you don't claim to be an expert; your friends and
colleagues certify your expertise.
So try to do the hard work and get endorsements, recommendations, and
referrals at LinkedIn.
Moreover, "talk is cheap, show me your work" should be your motto:
- Do you have a Github account? Do you commit to your Github daily?
- Do you contribute to others' open-source projects at least every couple
of days?
- Do you have side projects, that you are so passionate that you can talk
about them forever?
- (This is from a very well-known person in the industry, I'll keep the
name secret) "Can you disagree with me, without being and asshole?"
- Do you have a technical blog? Do you write a blog post every other week?
If you answer "yes" to all these questions, then your odds of getting a job
at anywhere you like in the known universe is high.
If not, you have to work on these skills.
In addition, finding an internal reference, or finding someone who knows an
internal reference, is becoming to be kind of an "undocumented" de facto
rule in career search in the valley (and I'm sure in the other parts of the
world).
To sum up:
- Be *humble*, no matter how well you know karate, there are better people
than yourself;
- Be *passionate* of what you do, and show your passion (by contributing to
the open source);
- Be *communicative* (don't do a shotgun job search at programming mailing
lists. Per contra, find a company, aim for it, find the go-to person in
that company, and (that's important) get introduced to that person via a
reference -- rinse and repeat until you succeed).
Hope that helps,
Volkan.
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