Is LinkedIn starting to feel more heat from Facebook? The San Francisco-based company is looking for an on-site Developer Network Manager to act as an intermediary between the company and API developers. The ad (registration required) says they're looking for someone with a combination of marketing, technical, and communication skills and also outlines pretty clearly that the job entails a lot of API program evangelism. They even go so far as to say that whomever they hire should be prepared to build a "LinkedIn Developer Network from the ground up.

Could this be further indication that LinkedIn realizes it needs to take a hard look at what Facebook is offering and at least make a run at matching what they have to offer if they want to stay competitive in the social network market?

While we are on the subject of jobs, here are some tips on how to make your resume sing. This should improve your chances of being noticed by potential employers. Some of these tips are obvious, some may be new to you, but all of them are from my personal experience so YMMV.

Ever wonder what it's like to work at Microsoft, Yahoo!, or Google? No, not the perks, salaries, or hours, but the good stuff, like who throws the most parties, or gives away the most junk like T-shirts?

A former Microsoft and Google intern who now works at Yahoo! has written up a summary of his experiences with each company. The low-down? Yahoo! has too much bureaucracy, Google has the best food. At Microsoft, every employee has their own office but, Bill Gates has a worn-out pair of shoes, just like anybody else.

The most solid revelation in the article, however, is this bit of sage advice for the job candidate: "Apparently the answer to 'Can you tell me what was the most difficult bug you faced while programming and what you did to resolve it?' isn't 'My programs don't have bugs.'"

Isn't everyone in the Web 2.0 blog-o-sphere starting a job board?
JobCoin takes just moments to set up and get running, and provides website owners an extremely easy solution to jumping on the bandwagon starting your own job board . Site owners set their job ad rate, and JobCoin skims 30% off the top for providing their unique platform.

JobCoin doesn't recommend charging for postings unless you have at least 2 million page views, but it doesn't hurt to experiment if you have a dedicated audience.

Setting up the actual job board service is simple, open a free account and drop in a single line of HTML code into any page on your website where you want the listings to appear. HTML or CSS code can be customized as you please so it fits in with your websites design. With other job posting locations demanding in upwards of $300 per listing, you might have a possible money making machine on your hands.

As the senior manager of the software development team, part of my duty is to interview job candidates. One thing that jumped out to me a while ago as I was going through a resume is that a lot of candidates have more interesting jobs at the beginning of their career than their latest employment.

My own experience is very similar. The first job I got after finishing college was with a software engineering company for transportation (mainly trains) and traffic control system, where 'engineering' meant exactly that. The company was ISO9000/9001 certified so that means every process and decision had to be clearly documented and signed off. The traditional software development model, i.e. "The Waterfall", was king and the thickness of the requirement and design documents were matched by the comprehensive testing documents. Every change request must be approved, coded, tested, and signed off before

Proving that job interviews are as formulaic as you think, (Where do YOU see yourself in 5 years?), InterviewStream has launched a new job interview prep web site called InterviewTRUE.

The idea is that you sit in front of a Internet-connected computer with a webcam and microphone and answer questions as if you were in a real job interview. When you're done, you can playback your job interview and find out why you keep getting passed up for promotion.

There are over a thousand possible questions on the site. You can either preselect a group of questions, or be all gutsy (and realistic) and answer a random assortment. An interviewer will pop up on screen and when he/she is done asking questions, your webcam will automatically start recording. You'll have two minute to reply, but if you're not happy with your answer, you can hit a button and start over.

When you're done, the whole thing gets uploaded to InterviewStream's servers, and the company will email you a link to watch the completed video. This seems a bit weird at first, like they're planning on doing something nefarious with the video. And maybe they are, but the official reason the video is uploaded rather than saved on your computer is so you can share it with friends, family, colleagues, career counselors, etc for constructive feedback. Of course, if you have these people in your life, maybe you should just ask them to sit down and ask you questions.

InterviewStream's been providing a similar service for college students for some time, but InterviewTRUE is open to the public. There's a free trial that provides you with 24 hours of access to the site. You can also buy 6 month or 1 year subscriptions.

Oh yeah, and as of now, not only is InterviewTRUE Windows XP only, but you need .NET Framework 2.0, Windows Media Player 9, and if you try to visit the site using Firefox you get a friendly note telling you that some features will only work with Internet Explorer.

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