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How to keep your builds clean from broken code

We at Linux Lancers will show project leading nerds the deepest and edge cutting methods on how to accomplish an exemplary team leadership. We have analysded for many many years real life case studies regarding the human factor in keeping your builds clean from broken code and we have finally found the perfect method [...]

Punto Informatico Interview with Brent and Lukas about Linux Jobs

Migrating abroad sometimes is the only solution when your skills can’t be spent in your country or you just simply aim at a better income and benefits, this is expecially true for Open Source experts, we’ve got a double interview with Brent Marinaccio [http://www.hotlinuxjobs.com/] and Lukas Chaplin [http://www.linux-lancers.com/], managers of two Linux-oriented job agencies, the [...]

HR 2.0 - CVO: Curriculum Vitae optimization (Part 1)

Most common mistakes candidates make, when sending in their CV. Sure you can find this information on other big sites having great guidelines how to develope a CV.
I will be writing this from the point of view of a technical recruiter and giving real life examples (no names thou, all information are kept confidentially) [...]

Linux Jobs inside view

Welcome dear Reader!
with the launch of our new page, we also decided to start a blog. We’ll be keeping you updated here on stories (without names of neither candidates nor companies) and information from within the Open source job market.

Here is a list of the main topics we’ll be handling in this blog:
- A Linux [...]

The programmer hierarchy

Since our focus is on the programmers, we found a nice image representing the hierarchy of them (click on image for larger view).

Source: http://blog.docx.org/2008/10/22/programmierer/

Interview with Lars “lmb” Marowsky-Brée about homeoffice working

Lars Marowsky-Brée is a principal engineer at SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, working on High Availability and Storage solutions. He is also the team leader for one of the three SUSE Labs Linux kernel teams, which are responsible for the kernels in the openSUSE and Enterprise products, and upstream contributors. He joined the S.u.S.E. Linux [...]

Linux Job Market Growth across All Verticals

The Linux job market is still growing - this time across all verticals and all over the world. We found a short interview with Brent Marinaccio from HotLinuxJobs, our Partner in the USA. The article points out, how Linux reached different markets, because it became more mature over the years.
Feel free to warp to the [...]

How Human Resource departments do job advertisement wrong (German)

I read a splendid article, about how job advertisement is done wrong. The author, Eitel Dignatz, is criticizing how the HR departments are not targeting their audience. He also points out the idiotic behaviour by using phrases such as “Someone who is resilient”.
If you understand german and want a good laugh on expense of the [...]