My Professional Blog

A few people have asked about my “hire me” site, so I thought I’d answer them here for everyone.
The first question was how did what I put together differ or distinguish me from what anyone could do with a Linkedin profile? Good question. A Linkedin profile probably will get more visits based upon Linkedin’s popularity. However, I would not be able to provide PDF and Word versions of my resume, work samples, and tinker with my SEO. At present, if you enter “Bill Eisenhauer” into Google, you’ll see a Linkedin profile under that name as the 5th choice — unfortunately, that’s not my profile.

The next question is: would you consider productizing it to enable others to have online resumes? The answer is: maybe. If I was convinced that I could find enough paying customers, I would. However, I’m not sure I could do that. I will say that it is nice to be able to point recruiters and potential employers to the site for resumes, samples, and testimonials.

Another question is: what’s up with the odd classes in some of the markup? Well, that’s microformats. I am tinkering with hResume, hReview, and hCard. You can download a Firefox extension which alerts you when microformats are present on a page and on my site you can see microformats on about half the pages. For now, I’m probably about the only one who thinks this is cool, but such is the life of an early-adopter.

Lastly, I’ve had a couple of recruiters ask about the effects found on the site (e.g. samples, about - tag cloud). That’s some Javascript and AJAX just for the heck of it. Its kinda cool to refer a recruiter to my site when they are asking if I’ve ever done any AJAX. So, not hugely useful, but mildly demonstrative of my skills.

I have surmised that my ability to code in Ruby is not of much value to the Java community. There’s just not much crossover between the two. So while I like coding in Ruby and Rails, it would appear that I won’t be paid to do so anytime soon.

A few people have asked about my “hire me” site, so I thought I’d answer them here for everyone.
The first question was how did what I put together differ or distinguish me from what anyone could do with a Linkedin profile? Good question. A Linkedin profile probably will get more visits based upon Linkedin’s popularity. However, I would not be able to provide PDF and Word versions of my resume, work samples, and tinker with my SEO. At present, if you enter “Bill Eisenhauer” into Google, you’ll see a Linkedin profile under that name as the 5th choice — unfortunately, that’s not my profile.

The next question is: would you consider productizing it to enable others to have online resumes? The answer is: maybe. If I was convinced that I could find enough paying customers, I would. However, I’m not sure I could do that. I will say that it is nice to be able to point recruiters and potential employers to the site for resumes, samples, and testimonials.

Another question is: what’s up with the odd classes in some of the markup? Well, that’s microformats. I am tinkering with hResume, hReview, and hCard. You can download a Firefox extension which alerts you when microformats are present on a page and on my site you can see microformats on about half the pages. For now, I’m probably about the only one who thinks this is cool, but such is the life of an early-adopter.

Lastly, I’ve had a couple of recruiters ask about the effects found on the site (e.g. samples, about - tag cloud). That’s some Javascript and AJAX just for the heck of it. Its kinda cool to refer a recruiter to my site when they are asking if I’ve ever done any AJAX. So, not hugely useful, but mildly demonstrative of my skills.

I have surmised that my ability to code in Ruby is not of much value to the Java community. There’s just not much crossover between the two. So while I like coding in Ruby and Rails, it would appear that I won’t be paid to do so anytime soon.