This month I've invited recruiter Ben Passman to speak with us. Ben is a recent Phoenix-to-Austin transplant, who joined staffing firm vtrIt...and they have positions to fill that want C++ experience:
Before he got involved with the recruiting industry, Ben's professional background was in sales and marketing. In fact, he offered to give us a presentation he put together...which he made to help job candidates position themselves for success in the job search.
Yet since these meetups are informal, I thought we'd rather use his slide topics as a chance to round-table some of the personality-and-social-based aspects of hiring and recruiting C++ programmers. There are perhaps certain things that coders aren't thinking about as much as technology, and he has a couple essays on his blog about non-technical barriers to the process...which I'm sure will elicit opinions from both sides
http://benopassman.blogspot.com/
This meetup leans a little more toward career networking than the North one. But it also does double-duty as our South Austin programmer-talk gathering, so you certainly don't have to be unemployed or underemployed to attend! We can talk about code, or just ramble about technology in general...
Last time I did this on a Thursday, but we'll try a Wednesday for this one. If you can't make the day but would have liked to come on a Tuesday or Thursday, then write some feedback along with your "No" RSVP.
NOTE: The venue has food--as well as wine and beer--in case anyone was worried.
P.S. I'd mentioned that I was going to do a turning-to-the-dark-side-of-Java focus group. But the technical VP of the Java company that was hiring wasn't available this month...so the non-technical contact and I decided to defer that until he was available. Sorry for any confusion on that!
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