How to Be Awesome (Part 2)

How do you describe yourself to potential employers? Many developers get this terribly wrong.

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Podcast #69 - It's Too Rainy For A Parade

Welcome to Stack Exchange Podcast episode #69, brought to you by The Lake Erie Soda Water Company. Your host is Joel Spolsky, joined by First Deputy of Community And So Forth Jay Hanlon and Lord High King of Nerds David Fullerton. Fortunately, the beer arrived shortly after the podcast began, so this one should be pretty good.

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How To Target Job Listings Effectively

Targeting your job listing helps us decide who we should show your job listings to. We recently added a widget to the targeting page to help set effective targeting parameters. This is a description of how it achieves that goal.

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Beyond Coding Recap: Helping Emerging Developers Launch Careers

This summer Stack Overflow, together with a host of NYC-based tech companies, created Beyond Coding, a 10 week program for emerging developers and designers. We sought to guide students through the finer points of professional 'soft' skills in order to help those lacking experience gain a foothold in the technical job market.

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