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Convention Idea: Career Tracks

July 15, 2009 by Steven Savage

My original column on how conventions could invite more "career" guests (legal reps, marketers, special effects teams) along with their "name" guests generated a good deal of feedback from various people. After some though, I've decided to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and flesh out other ideas on how conventions and similar fan/geek events can encourage professional development as well as fun. There's no real endpoint to the series – and I'm always looking for new ideas.

For this column, I want to focus on another way to make conventions skill-and-career building as well as social and fun – a career track at a convention. I've seen a few ideas like this implemented from con to con, and wanted to discuss my ideal version of how they could be done.

Geeky Jobs are HARD

July 9, 2009 by Steven Savage

I was thinking over my last column on why more people don't have geeky jobs. Something that came to mind that people often forget, and that I left out because I was focusing on personal traits, is this.

Geeky Jobs are HARD.

Geek Jobs in your back yard: Part II

June 20, 2009 by Steven Savage

Bonnie had noted earlier that those of us looking for geeky jobs may want to search our own back yards for them before assuming we have to move (easier for some of us than others, says the guy living in Silicon Valley). I wanted to add to her excellent post by nothing that there's a tool that makes it even easier.

LinkedIn.com.

Yes, LinkedIn.Com is one of my crush objects, but with good reason – one of many reasons being it's Company search function. If you want to find jobs and companies in your own backyard, here's what you'll want to try (go on, give it a shot even if you're not looking);