Job interview update

On Tuesday, October 6, 2009, we traveled to Lexington, KY for a couple of job interviews, including one for Bankers Life and Casualty Company.

Just a week before, 24 hours after posting my resume to CareerBuilder.com, I was contacted by someone from Bankers saying they had reviewed my resume, were very impressed and invited me to an interview the following Tuesday. Now, I might not have done the job application process in its entirety before, but my assumption was that if I had posted my Resume under the title of “Experienced Senior Web Developer”, then the only people “reviewing” my resume would be those looking for an “Experienced Senior Web Developer.” A pretty safe assumption, wouldn’t you say? Continue reading

Latest updates: Job and home

This month has been a rather eventful month, to say the least. Having said that, the last five or six days (Saturday, 26 September – Wednesday, 30 September) have made up the bulk of said “events.” Continue reading

Employment update

Over the last month or so, work has been pretty good for me. I’ve managed to get through a couple of reasonable projects, one is about to wrap up and I’m currently working on an ASP.NET based Facebook application, which is new to me. Admittedly, the application isn’t really a stretch because I’m pretty much dumping a Flash application in to a Facebook canvas and doing a few simple database updates, but it’s still a chance to get a better handle on ASP.NET and the .NET framework as a whole. Continue reading