Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract? To : comp.programming From : amorgan Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 07:48 pm In article , Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote: >> From: Chris Sonnack >> Now, a website showing off your abilities, or detailing your past >> projects, is a whole different thing (if done well). If you got past >> "consideration" to "seriously considering", we'd certainly look into >> your website. > >Suppose you were looking for somebody to build medium-level software >tools which could then be used in a variety of different applications >within a general type of application that your company specialized in, >such as educational software (CAI), or distributed monitoring of >security cameras and sensors. Suppose I have 20 years experience >developing medium-level tools and incorporating them into applications, >and I have an online server-side demo of a few of my interesting tools. >What would I need to say in my resume to convince you to look at my >online demos to see that I wasn't making up the whole thing like half >the other applicants who sent resumes? Most interviewers won't care. It might be an extra attention getter, but your resume will get the interview (and company contacts, etc), not online demos. Assuming someone thinks your resume is interesting enough to warrant extra attention, they will determine if you are making things up by a phone screen interview followed, presumably, by a more detailed on-site interview. Generally a good interviewer can tell if they are being snowed. Now, I would determine if we wanted to take a look at you by looking for the appropriate buzzwords in the resume (sad, but true), looking at the range of projects you've worked on, and pondering the ineffable "it" that makes one resume stand out in a batch of several hundred. Alan -- Defendit numerus .