As a moderator of this group, I reject almost a dozen job postings per day. Several per week actually relate to GWT, but even so are inconsistent with this forum's mission. However, I approved Jeff Burnham's post because I think there is some benefit in this discussion.
The GWT team doesn't feel that it's our place to maintain a GWT jobs forum; however, if the community wants to take this on, we'll certainly be glad to help promote it. Also, if there are things you want recruiters to know, I'll be happy to write up a sticky post with info for recruiters (as well as a restatement of the job postings ban on this forum). In the mean time, if you're a GWT consultant looking for work, here's some advice I can offer as a former consultant. 1. The best jobs are those that find you, so make yourself findable. Write a GWT blog. Put "GWT developer" in your Google+ and LinkedIn profiles with a link to your Google Groups profile so recruiters can see how often you post on this group. Also put "GWT consulting" or something more descriptive in your signature so it shows up in every post on this group. Good recruiters know how to search Google Groups and StackOverflow to find the real experts. 2. Give a GWT talk at your local JUG or GTUG. Recruiters often frequent the larger JUGs and if you're giving the talk, you're their expert. 3. Get your resume in the database of every credible technical staffing shop you can find. Apply for every GWT job. Even if it's slightly over/under your abilities, that will get you in the recruiter's resume database. Put a link to your online profiles in your resume so they can read your blog, see how long you've been posting on this group, etc. 4. Post your resume in the various online job services like Dice and Monster. Don't just search for jobs--make yourself searchable. Many jobs are never posted--the recruiters search the online databases and contact you directly. Also make sure you update your resume in these services every couple months as recruiters tend to look for recent updates. Again, let me know where you want me to direct GWT job postings, and I'll be happy to help out. /dmc On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:07 AM, A. Stevko <andy.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: > Without an appropriate alternative, I personally would like to encourage > GWT job openings/availability to be posted here. > Not job spam but GWT jobs. > > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Hilco Wijbenga > <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 10 July 2011 17:35, Jeff <jeffrey.burn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > However, your negative response was quite unnecessary when the link >> alone >> > would do. Thanks for that by the way. >> >> Clearly he was being sarcastic. He was actually agreeing with your >> posting here since there is currently no real alternative. >> >> > </end_discussion> >> >> Nice one. Sort of like a double negative, though, don't you think? :-) >> That should probably be </discussion>. ;-) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Web Toolkit" group. >> To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > -- A. Stevko > =========== > "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." M. > Andretti > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > -- David Chandler Developer Programs Engineer, GWT+GAE w: http://code.google.com/ b: http://turbomanage.wordpress.com/ b: http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/ t: @googledevtools -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
