Lessons from Both Sides of an Interview Desk

David Tuite from LegitScript talks about the recent 6 month period when he went from being a fresh-faced, first-time job candidate to interviewing his own candidates on behalf of the company that hired him. There'll be tips on CV writing, negotiating, performing well in technical exercises and a bunch of other skills that can help you interview better and make more money.

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1. LegitScript LegitScript Lessons from Both Sides of an Interview Desk
2. 9 Months Ago Me LegitScript
3. LegitScript
4. LegitScript Choosing Direction
5. LegitScript Choosing Location
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8. LegitScript TechMeAbroad JobsInTech
9. LegitScript
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11. LegitScript Finding listings
12. The Application Process LegitScript
13. Cover letter writing LegitScript
14. LegitScript Hi! I saw your job ad on Ruby Ireland and I would really suit the role. I'm excited by the fact that you have huge companies like Google and Microsoft as clients. It sounds like valuable work you guys do. Looking forward to your response, David.
15. LegitScript Hi! I'm a Dublin based web developer with tons of professional experience with Ruby and Rails, MySQL and TDD (basically your entire tech stack actually). I've also been known to crack a joke every now and then. Have a great day, David.
16. Cover letter writing LegitScript
17. CV Writing LegitScript
18. LegitScript Migrated all payments related code in our main Rails 4 application to Stripe. This included migrating more than a million rows of historic transaction data. The new integration resulted in a 10% increase in checkout completions.
19. LegitScript Owned development of a customer facing blog posting feature for the duration of my time with the company. I decreased page loading times by 50% and increased engagement by 20% during this time.
20. Context LegitScript
21. LegitScript
22. CV Writing LegitScript
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24. CV Design LegitScript
25. CV Design LegitScript
26. LegitScript Coding Challenges
27. LegitScript .docx
28. LegitScript Editor Screenshot
29. LegitScript Gist
30. LegitScript Coding Challenges
31. Work samples LegitScript
32. LegitScript
33. In-Person Interviews LegitScript
34. Practice LegitScript
35. Ask questions LegitScript
36. LegitScript But I wanted to appear smart, so I didn’t express any confusion. “ - Lawrence
37. Common questions LegitScript
38. Negotiating LegitScript
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40. Rejection :-( LegitScript
41. @dtuite bit.ly/ruby-ireland-interviewing LegitScript