Posts and Twips

How to Reject The Wrong People, Quickly

2011-11-11T14:45:00.001-06:00

Noah Kagan (@noahkagan, #3 Mint, #30 Facebook, Founder AppSumo) shows you how reject 90% of the people that apply for a job without ever talking to them in AppSumo Hiring Secrets.

The video is only 25 minutes but worth it. Noah walks through the process of hiring a personal assistant, going from over a thousand applications to only calling two people. This allows him to focus on running his business instead of reading resumes in Microsoft Word.

His system is based on the idea that a person that works hard on the job application and interview will also work hard on the job itself. Noah says that if I ask for a Skype number and you don't have one, just go create one, be proactive.

The AppSumo Hiring Secrets system is the employer's version of Ramit Sethi's Briefcase Technique.

If you get the video by next November 19th, 2011 it will only cost you $49. If you don't get it, it will cost you time reading resumes with bold buzzwords and talking to people who shouldn't be working for you.

Get the AppSumo Hiring Secrets by clicking here.

P.S. Check out the introduction video on YouTube below.

Wish List

2011-02-09T20:10:00.001-06:00

This is my wish list in the O'Reilly Media contest; the only prize if $500 worth of O'Reilly Publishing books. You can read about it here.

The following titles are in ebook format and the latest edition.

SQL Pocket Guide 3rd Edition

2010-12-16T10:37:00.003-06:00

Title: SQL Pocket Guide, Third Edition
By: Jonathan Gennick
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Formats: Print Ebook Safari Books Online
Print Release: November 2010
Ebook Release: November 2010
Pages: 208
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-9409-7 | ISBN 10: 1-4493-9409-4
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-9437-0 | ISBN 10: 1-4493-9437-X

[O'Reilly, Amazon]

SQL Pocket Guide is a way of getting to know the SQL language on a variety of common platforms. You quickly get to know each keyword and the output you should expect. You will not, however, learn the “best” way to write SQL code.

Gennick in this third edition covers Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgresSQL keywords; some in depth some with “see your vendor’s documentation”. His overview is similar to what I would expect to get from a User Group lecture or a one day class at a University. If you are new to SQL code you should be able to understand keywords meanings and their usage.

The layout of chapters is by subject and then by keyword, so that you learn what SELECT, TIMESTAMP, and INSERT do. Gennick informs you of vendor differences but there is not a summery section. Some areas like date and time would make such a table nearly unusable as “Datetime support varies wildly amount platforms; commonality is virtually nonexistent.” SQL Pocket Guide is a good overview of the SQL language for the most common vendors.

Reviewed as part of the O'Reilly Blogger Review Program.