Historical errata for Land the Tech Job You Love

By the end of the page:

“I also like to teach other people how to do what I do, but my company is small and doesn’t have any real junior programmers. I make do by”

The last sentence part should be written: “I make so by”

Hi,

In the “interview.pdf” excerpt online, on printed page 154, there is the sentence “Maybe he’d never heard of TAP or had realized that you could test more than modules with Test::More.”

I think “or had realized” might be better as “or hadn’t realized”?

Thanks,

Ted Behling
ted@tedb.us

“Position” spelled incorrectly as “posision”.

There is an excerpt on the preceding page that is prompting the first line on this page (115) to start halfway across the line, unnecessarily.

“it may indicated” is used, rather than “it may indicate”.

In the paragraph describing the company heading, “if the company is unlikely to be familiar with the reader” should be “if the reader is unlikely to be familiar with the company” or “if the company is unlikely to be familiar to the reader.”

First paragraph after the example says “since them employ him” instead of “since they employ him.”

In the section “Not-Quite-Random Web Searching”, second paragraph, the suggested search is “bob.smith@example.com -site:example.com”, but because of the word break, the hyphen is not attached to “site” as it should be.

The implication is reversed in point 1. It should read “If you can do Active Directory, you can do LDAP.”

“Granted, having your future employment on the line can add a bit stress” is missing the “of”.

In answering a request for salary histor with a salary expectation, the word my is missing from “experience and talents” in the sentence “Based on my understanding of the position, the current job market, and my experience and talents…”

“The same
would hold true if you have a generally accepted certification,
such as a CCNA or CCNE from Cisco.”
I guess, CCNE must be changed to CCNP or CCIE

Duplicate word in beginnng of paragraph at top of page 39 (pdf):
“He found that some some aspects of a job are motivators…”
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The list in the last sentence on the page lacks a comma between “like” and “modify”: “You’ll create a first version, use it, see what you don’t like modify, and repeat.”

In the last paragraph, “You’re interested for working for us…” should be “You’re interested in working for us….”

In the paragraph before the bulleted list, “…it gives weight to the value that provided.” should be “…it gives weight to the value that you provided.”

“Monday morning everyone was able to come in and get work at 8 a.m.”… should that be “come in and get to work” ? or “come in and get files” ?

Section 6.4, second paragraph, second sentence: “If they company knows” should be “If the company knows”.

Resume line is “Faire Fans”, text in following paragraph references “Faire Geeks”

The first sentence on the page uses a singular noun (“choice”) when it should have a plural noun (“choices”). The sentence reads, “Once you have an offer and you’ve spent a day thinking about it, you have three choice: make a counteroffer, decline the offer, or accept the offer.” It should read, “Once you have an offer and you’ve spent a day thinking about it, you have three choices: make a counteroffer, decline the offer, or accept the offer.”

It states: “Introduced test-driven development that reduced defects by 27% per KLOC”.

I would suggest to remove the “per KLOC” part completely, as it would tell the hiring manager, that the person applying doesn’t understand what ’per-cent" means ;-)

twosome - “He found that >>>some some<<< aspects of a job are motivators”.
BTW:great book!

subchapter Pride and Prestige
“If you think this sounds >>>egotistical<<<” - I am not native english speaker, but I think author means egoistical.

Run-on sentence. “This is a job I’d like to work on I think I can bring…”

Halfway down the page, a sentence says:

…he works for, since them employ him.

and probably should be

…he works for, since they employ him.

This example is cartoonishly bad, but not at all implausable. The author of that email does not give a good impression about himself or the company he works for, since them employ him.

- THEM employ him.
- IMPLAUSABLE = implausible

Suggestions:

1. This example is cartoonishly bad, but not at all implausible.
The author gives a negative impression of himself and his employer.
However, don’t discount a company because of one bad email
or one bad employee. It’s one view of the company, and, who
knows, maybe the job advertised would include replacing that
guy.

2. This example is cartoonishly bad, but not at all implausible.
The author of that email does not give a good impression about himself or the company he works for, since they employ him. However, don’t discount a company because of one bad email or one bad employee. It’s one view of the company, and, who knows, maybe the job advertised would include replacing that guy.