+1 on the meetups advice, the NWRUG is a great way to get involved in the scene.
We take on grads and junior devs at Volcanic <https://www.volcanic.co.uk> and look to train them up over a 6 month period. Get in touch with me personally if you're interested [email protected] Cheers, Rob Robert Wilde - 0161 217 1511 (DD) - 078 666 333 77 On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Sean Bamforth <[email protected]> wrote: > It depends, I think, on if you want to work for someone who would use your > GitHub profile as a signal for hiring. > > From my perspective - there's a couple of things that make me smile. > - Github Profile > - StackOverflow Profile. > > Neither of these are necessary. I've also rejected more candidates than > I've accepted with these profiles. It's so very easy to work out who > someone is. With your GitHub profile for example, it's obvious that the > projects in there are exercises, and that you lack experience. This is fine > now, because you lack experience, but if you add nothing to your Github, > then in three years time - I'm going to count that as a negative. > > Things I've seen: > - Github profiles containing nothing but cloned projects. > - Github profiles containing unattributed rips of other peoples code. > - Stackoverflow answers comprising google searches copied and pasted as > "answers" > > StackOverflow is really useful for me & not so much in terms of the > answers you give, but the questions you ask. > With both these sites though, you've got a conflict between using them as > a tool and using them as an advertisement. > > If it's too clean, I'll assume that you're not using them as a tool, and > I'll discount it. If they're too dirty (And who doesn't have the odd filthy > tool cluttering up their virtual toolbox), that might give me pause. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The contents of this email is without commitment. Volcanic <http://www.volcanic.co.uk/> Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/106857498609552814796/106857498609552814796> Please review us on Google <http://bit.ly/volc-reviw> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
