Archive for the ‘linkedin’ Category

It’s alive!

Апрель 24th, 2012
LinkedIn has what they call "inDays" where employees may so something interesting which may not be directly related to their day job. I spent my inDay by porting my old WL820 project (External Language Stored Procedures) to MariaDB 5.3. The code, as usual, is available on LaunchPad ... To get the branch, simply do: bzr branch lp:~atcurtis/maria/5.3-wl820 The test cases pass... I haven't tested
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Hate the dirty recruitment tactics

Ноябрь 30th, 2010
I hate it when recruiters reach out to you with a message indicating that they are looking for 'key positions' and when you follow up, the tone changes to "we're just looking for engineers." This happens all the time and the latest company to play this recruitment tactic is LinkedIn. Guys, can't you decide whether you are looking to fill a 'key position' or just an engineering position before reaching out to candidates? I can see that mentioning 'key position' will get a candidate's attention but this is just a low level tactic.

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Join the Kontrollbase Users group on LinkedIn

Январь 13th, 2010
We have a new users’s group on LinkedIn for anyone that wants to keep up to date with discussions and wants to increase their network profile on the site. Join now: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2655021
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