Hi Tzahi! I don't think your post is very off-topic.
On Thursday 08 March 2007, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > Hi, > > I contemplated whether to send this email to this list and i usually would > not be so public about this kind of thing, however, i am a bit at a loss > and in need of some tips so i hope you'd bear with me. > I have recently finished my MSc studies and wanted to find a linux related > job. Not necessarily kernel hacking/device drivers though this is what most > attracts. I can say without a doubt that it is difficult to convince > potential employers of your capabilities without a proven working > experience. It is the old chicken and the egg problem. I would have thought > that 3 separate degrees and my 2 years experience with PostgreSQL internals > would have some leverage, however, i came to believe that this is a myth. > Usually it goes like this, i get 2-3 professional interviews and then get a > negative answer. I get the feeling these big companies i go to, just fill > their interview quotas and in the end takes people with the most working > experience. Especially in the north, where there are something like 30 > people contending per job. > Can someone throw some tips as to how i should proceed? OK, I'll bite. I graduated from the Technion in 2004 (B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering), and for a while afterwards have been looking for a job. I got accepted into one job which I quit soon after I started working because I found it too frustrating, and got accepted, and one job which I did not sign the contract because it smelled wrong. Then I got hired to a job in Jerusalem doing PHP development, which I accepted. That was about 2 years after I graduated. The job was OK, but then I decided to quit in order to become a freelancer. I eventually decided against becoming a freelancer, and started looking for a job again. At that point I found my current job, which I started working in on January this year, even though I wasn't looking too hard. So my advice to you is: 1. Just hang on there. Don't give up and keep looking. Hopefully you'll find something eventually. 2. In the meanwhile, work on open source software that interests you. A good idea would be to join projects that other people start and help them, rather than start your own pet projects. FOSS looks good on your C.V. (at least to the companies you'd want to work for), is a good way to gain some reputation, gives you some good experience, relieves you of burden, and gives your life some purpose. 3. If you're willing to relocate, then you may have better luck finding work in the Centre of Israel. 4. Write the signular first person as "I", not "i". ;-) For other good advice see: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/advice-for-the-young/ (Including the links towards the bottom). Regards, Shlomi Fish > 10x. > > P.s.: As to some who would have paranoid thoughts that this is self > advertising, let me assure you that you are only partly correct, but there > is no other way to ask the question. So i apologize in advance for that > part. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then destroyed all evidence with his bare hands, so no one will know his secrets. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
