Being in the market for an IT job, I decided to do a search on Google for “Hamilton Information technology” and see what comes up.

Hamilton Information Technology Jobs: Information Technology Job Listings and Jobs in Hamilton by Jobshark.ca.

I thought this was nice looking hit. I click on it and here’s what I see:

Information Technology Jobs in Hamilton

The following Hamilton Information Technology jobs are available for you to review.

To review the current Hamilton Information Technology job descriptions, please click on the job title.

So now nurses are being lumped into the IT category? Gotta wonder how this jobshark site manages such logic…..pretty sad.

So, I finally made the switch to GMail.

As a Tech, Google has always been my best friend.  Finding solutions to problems is the key to any successful Geek.  Don’t let anyone tell you they ‘know it all’ because I can guarantee you they’ve researched any problem long before they ‘knew it’.

Any ways, having run a number of email addresses for various projects/reasons, I was getting tired of all the email building up on my computer as well as the concern for having to back it all up all the time.  So I stopped downloading it and went to strictly checked it
all via a webmail interface.  This helped in my storage concerns but after developing a few more projects, it was getting seriously tiresome to log into 6 different webmail accounts.  Enter the Saviour of the Day, GMail!

GMail has the awesome ability to gram email from pop servers(i.e. your Internet provider or domain name provider) and sort them by what they call ‘labels’.  They don’t use folders but clicking on the label that you assign to the email account you setup is the equivalent anyways.

I have been working hard at consolidating my workload into more central locations to make it easier for me.  This is absolutely critical for any successful person/business to do!

In fact, I’m sending an email from Gmail to my domain name and that will get posted as well as Twitter status will be updated to show a new post.  This just saved me at least 15mins of ‘browsing around’ to do it all!

Now if only I can figure out how to add tags to my posts from emails….

So, I see this job on Craigslist. I apply to the annonymous listing. Few hours later I get reply asking to fill out this ‘form’ and return it back within 24hrs. I open it up….it’s kinda like one of those ‘tell me a time when…’ questionaire but for techs. Well, being the good tech that I am, I fill it out. got to one part where I was sure so I figure I’ll use the resouces at hand…..Google. I copy part of the questionaire into Google, with quotes. and his enter. Oddly enough I only get ONE hit. I was expecting quite a few of people who had similar problems.

Well guess what the one hit was? I was the same damn questionaire posted on a Vietnamese message forum from 4 years ago!

Even the IT hiring process has run out of original ways to screen candidates.