Resume Fraud 101
Many of us have made changes to our resumes to package ourselves for the job. Somtimes this is a simple re-wording of job duties or a formatting change to hide the fact that we were not in a job for very long. In many cases it is something like 11/2005-1/2006 being transposed into 2005-2006. The [...]
FREE Resumes for Hiring Teams and Hidden Costs
One of our clients recently asked us what we thought about FREE resumes that were sent to them (with names and contact information stripped from them) by a recruiter. The recruiter is one that hits our radar occasionally because this recruiter likes to spam job ads on Craigslist in hopes that an hiring team might [...]
Review: UpMo.com “Career GPS”
It has been a while since we’ve reviewed a new career or hiring related product here on Jobmatchbox. A big part of the reason for that has been that there hasn’t been much that we’ve seen hit the market worthy of review. Sure there have been Facebook apps that push jobs to your inbox and [...]
Drive Smart On The Way To Your Interview
Have an interview coming up? Live in a city with traffic camera’s? Don’t forget to plan ahead so you don’t get a ticket in the rush to get there on time. According to the Journal of Law and Economics and the Wall Street Journal, “governments use traffic tickets as a means of generating revenue” to [...]
Registration for Social Matchbox on April 2, 2009
Social Matchbox is “speed dating for geeks”.
INTRODUCTION
Social Matchbox is DC’s longest running open mic
night and networking event for startup companies that are backed by angel and
venture investors as well as those which aspire to join their ranks.
Our event is unique in that it is invitation-based with a
refreshingly open format. Social
Matchbox provides a quarterly “State [...]
Featured Job: Lead Web Application Developer @ National Geographic Society (DC)
Leads front-end web development for National Geographic Global Media, including (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Templating, etc. Determines strategic direction in web development tools, technologies, standards and methodologies used. Responsible for technical direction of development languages and protocols. Supervises and professionally mentors other developers. Working with a team of designers, producers and other developers, the candidate [...]
‘Trouble With Twitters’
For all of you Twittaholics out there, this is for you.
Featured Job: Sr. Rails Developer
It has been a few months and DC area startups are hiring again which is welcome news. If your startup is hiring we would like to hear about it – post your job on Jobmatchbox.com and we’ll automatically consider it for a featured job slot like this one.
Sr. Rails Developer, CollectiveX, Columbia, MD
Join a start-up [...]
Challenges With Consulting & Corruption in Washington, Surpise, Surprise
Today’s Washington Post Headline: ‘D.C. Tech Official Is Accused of Bribery’. Apparently, the DC City Government’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, or OCTO as they like to be called, can hand out “noncompetitive orders up to $500,000, compared with a $100,000 limit for other agencies.”. Someone got caught with their hand in the cookie [...]
Social Matchbox is April 2, 2008
Social Matchbox (www.socialmatchbox.com) is DC’s longest running open mic night and networking event for startup companies that are backed by angel and venture investors as well as those which aspire to join their ranks.
Our event is unique in that it is invitation-based with a refreshingly open format. Social Matchbox provides a quarterly “State of Startups” for [...]
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