Comments on: The Ultimate IT Professional’s Guide to Conducting an Online Job Search (Part III – Sales)

By: Garan

Garan — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 03:56:38 +0000

Read it again; it was using the idea of selling yourself to explain the sort of steps and processes you need.

By: Garan

Garan — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 03:55:09 +0000

Very true; It's instantly possible to tell who is there for the interview by their clothing (I wear polo shirts and cargo pants/jeans to work, they were wearing a white shirt, tie, slacks and nice shoes).

By: Garan

Garan — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 03:52:37 +0000

I was just skimming you article, and coincidentally it’s helped me refine the methods I’m using to find a new tech support guy (and, funnily enough, we build POS systems) and we actually have been somewhat “relying on our gut”. Admittedly, when we ask a question about networking two computers we got an answer of “Umm, with a CAT5 cable?” This is someone we’d be asking to set up a customer’s computer. They’d need to be able to explain, in layman’s terms, what hardware they’d need to link two computers over a network, and they demonstrated that they couldn’t. Actually, on that subject: Any time someone is applying to any form of occupation where they need to deal with laymen, they should always be able to explain what they are doing in terms the customer can understand. I can’t recall how many times I’ve tried to get a customer to do something before finally figuring out he didn’t understand one of my instructions.

By: Sales Integra

Sales Integra — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:22:13 +0000

This is a complete article on how to get a sales job by online by it professionals. Lengthy article but well explained worth to read it, especially by sales and marketing peoples

By: Carson63000

Carson63000 — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:33:30 +0000

Excellent piece but I would caution against taking the dress code advice too literally when pursuing IT jobs. This is a topic that was discussed on Programmers Stackexchange and more recently the Workplace Stackexchange a few times, and there is a strong body of opinion that if you fail to read the tone of a more casual workplace, showing up for an interview in suit, tie and shiny shoes can genuinely hurt your chances.

You make the point yourself - nobody hires people they don’t like. Cultural fit matters. And dressing like a bank manager when being interviewed by tech leads with wild beards, shorts and t-shirts is a fast track to being branded a poor fit.

The first rule of dressing for an interview: there is no "one size fits all", you need to know something about the workplace and target it appropriately.