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This post is an attempt to collect a set of general hints and tips for resumes and interviews. It is not concrete truth though, like all things this process is subjective and will differ from place to place. It originally started as a Google doc shared around a previous workplace during some layoffs, but it seems more useful than that so I am publishing it publicly. I'd welcome comments if you think it will help others. So something bad happened I have the distinction of having been through layoffs three times now. I think there are some important first steps: Take a deep breath. Hug your loved ones and then go and sweat on something -- take a walk, go to the gym, whatever works for you. Research shows that exercise is a powerful mood stabiliser. Make a plan. Who are you going to apply with? Who could refer you? What do you want to do employment wise? Updating your resume is probably a good first step in that plan. Treat finding a job as your job. You probably can’t do it for eight hours a day, but it should be your primary goal for each “workday”. Have a todo…

The graphic designer at work and I were talking, and I challenged him to come up with a resume as an animated GIF. This is where he landed... I think its quite clever. Need a graphic designer or video team? Consider onefishsea.

So let me be clear here, I don't think its a bad thing that Microsoft bought github. No one is forcing you to use their services, in fact they make it trivial to stop using them. So what's the big deal. I've posted about a few git mirror scripts I run at home recently: one to mirror gerrit repos; and one to mirror arbitrary github users. It was therefore trivial to whip up a slightly nicer script intended to help you forklift your repos out of github if you're truly concerned. Its posted on github now (irony intended). Now you can just do something like: $ pip install -U -r requirements.txt $ python download.py --github_token=foo --username=mikalstill I intend to add support for auto-creating and importing gitlab repos into the script, but haven't gotten around to that yet. Pull requests welcome.