Newest DBAs@Midnight Video on Resumes, plus the Lifecam Drawing!

We have hereby posted our newest DBAs at Midnight: Resumes (in three parts)

In Part 1 of DBAs@Midnight: Resumes:

  • We show you MVP award. The joke Sean makes (and glosses over) about "in pieces on the floor" was a reference to me breaking Sean's MVP trophy this year. IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!! There's a little glass clip thing with the year printed on it, and as I was moving the award off my desk, the clip flew off and chipped badly. The powers that be at the MVP program were kind enough to send a replacement, and I don't touch the award any more. :)
  • We talk about promoting MidnightDBA, our "vision" for the site, and why Sean started MidnightDBA. "What element of SQL can kill you? Film at 11!"
  • Sean shows off his new Blue mic, the Yeti
  • We talk blogging and putting YOU in your material. Sounds like a self-help seminar...

In Part 2 of DBAs@Midnight: Resumes:

  • "It doesn't make you stupid to make the technology accessible to people...."
  • We arrive at our main topic: Resumes! How long should your resume be, should you get it done by a service, etc etc.
    • Thought: "Could you imagine what it would look like if it were customary to have a dating resume?" It would be a lie fest...
    • We (Sean and I) do a coulpe of things with our resumes that aren't necessarily standard, and ignore some standard advice.
    • Here we say bull**** a lot. Oops. And we begin to talk interviewing...

In Part 3 of DBAs@Midnight: Resumes:

  • Effective interview tactics from the interviewer's perspective.  "So if you're an EXPERT, then tell me......"
  • Shout out to Brent Ozar and the excellent interview material on his blog. Sean smiles, then scowls and shakes his fist.
  • Sean talks about how hard he is on interviewees, and I reply, "Fair's fair: If you hire the guy, he's gonna have to work with you..."

Plus somewhere in there we do the drawing for the Lifecam, and also announce a surprise.

Happy days,

-Jen McCown

http://www.MidnightDBA.com


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February 3. 2010 16:11

David Taylor

I think I sucked up enough to have had a couple entries in the webcam drawing! Five entries, was even one of them mine?!?!?! Was my name in the cock bowl!?!?!? I am devastated Frown

I am going to Brent Ozar's site and drowning my sorrows in Performance Tuning webcasts. I am done with Midnight DBA (Well, until tomorrow, anyway Smile

Thanks for all you do, guys. Maybe next time. I was SO hoping for this! I think, nay, I now know, I am one of five people on earth that wanted that durn Lifecam Show, and now I'll NEVER have one! I sulk in your general direction!

David Taylor

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