Hey all,
After been tied up for many years, I'm about to once again brave the job
market. Last time I was looking for work (c2008) I ended up wasting a
lot of time with recruiters who weren't particularly helpful (to say it
kindly) and was wondering if anyone had recruiter recommendation, or
Why not try figure out who you want to work for and apply direct? Alot of
companies will prefer not going through agencies. What city are you looking
in?
On 20 Jan 2014 13:13, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote:
Hey all,
After been tied up for many years, I'm about to once again brave the
Good advice. A lot of medium to large companies will often advertise on
their own websites as well. So if you know someone that uses .NET have a
look at their website.
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Dave Walker rangitat...@gmail.com wrote:
Why not try figure out who you want to work for and
Heya Dave,
I've found that some recruiters can be an invaluable resource due to the
vast amount of contacts and opportunities they may hold, especially when
looking for contract work. In the past I've dealt with a few who were
really good (and a linkedIn search shows they were promoted out of
A good recruiter is pretty valuable but they are few and far between. We
went through a very heavy hiring phase where we added about 200 staff over
a year and found that most recruiters were very average. Some even actively
lied or changed cvs for their candidates.
That said recruiters are best
*That said recruiters are best way of getting contract work if that's what
you're after*
Perfectly timed. Today I started looking for contract work.
Do people have recommendations for where to look for contract work vs. a
standard office job? Are recruiters the main way for this?
-David Burela
Often they will be yeah as companies will often need a contractor now so
will be forced to go down that route. There is nothing wrong with going
direct as well however I've found that companies will be far less inclined
to offer a contract and will pressure to go for perm positions. YMMV.
Some
Folks, what is the recommended way of letting the caller choose the format
of the response? I have a method that can return plain text or XML, so how
does the caller choose the one they want?
I could have a format= parameter on the method call (Rackspace do that),
or is it better to inspect the
Accept header is the norm
On 20 January 2014 15:03, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
Folks, what is the recommended way of letting the caller choose the format
of the response? I have a method that can return plain text or XML, so how
does the caller choose the one they want?
I could have a
In WCF you use automaticFormatSelectionEnabled=true/false to tell it to parse
the header to work out what type of response to send back. I'm not sure whether
it is the same in WebAPI. It seems a bit ugly to do via a querystring parameter.
From: Greg Keogh
Chaps, after some doodling around I see I can get the Accept values
straight out of the Request in the controller's code. That does now seem to
be the logical way of choosing the response format.
More confusion though ... I tried to write a controller method that
returned either plain text or
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Chaps, after some doodling around I see I can get the Accept values
straight out of the Request in the controller's code. That does now seem to
be the logical way of choosing the
For contracts I tend to look at Seek and apply for anything that is
remotely appropriate. This gets my cv onto a lot of databases. I will
usually get a reply saying that the role I applied for is not suitable but
how about this other (not yet advertised) role.
On 20/01/2014 12:51 PM, David Burela
Greg, let the web API deal with the formatting. Your controller should
ideally just return an object which will be formatted according to the
request.
(apologies for brevity, I am playing mini golf with my son)
Try it in Fiddler and you can see how changing the request will change the
output. If
From my limited reading on this I think you will struggle to remove the
xmlns, the rationale being that without a namespace the xml is not valid.
While technically true, it is also annoying.
Personally I have a strong preference for JSON these days and use it
whenever I can... simple, ubiquitous
Just wanted to add that there are some people advertising on
careers.stackoverflow.com in the remote part of the world - so it might be
worthwhile to search there too.
On 20 January 2014 16:20, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote:
For contracts I tend to look at Seek and apply for
Pro tips for Recruitment.
- Don't ignore your pimps... A good recruiter will often hold back on the
sweet jobs and blind search for the not so sweet jobs. Trick is to find
one(s) local to you and show them respect by getting involved more. It can
be a two way relationship but yes most recruiters
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