“Shove It, FizzBuzz: How to Find and Land a .NET Development Job”

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This Book Is Dangerous

I want to clear up something right away. This book is not meant to be a cheat sheet to enable an incompetent programmer to fumble his way through an interview in order to get a position he is not qualified to have. The intent of this book is to help a .NET developer:
Find a job (sometimes in unusual ways)
Write a more effective resume
Prepare for the technical questions that will be asked in an interview
Learn which questions to ask the interviewer to determine if the job would be a good fit
Boost his confidence and improve his overall marketability when applying for any job

This book can help these three types of developers:

1. Developers who have not been exposed to all that .NET has to offer, or haven’t had a chance to play with any of the new stuff in .NET because their current project isn’t using it. Because of this, these programmers are now a little bit worried when they see unfamiliar terms in job descriptions.
“The ad mentioned Entity Framework, and I don’t know what that is, so I won’t be applying for that job, even though I had everything else they were asking for.”
2. Developers who are straight out of college, full of theoretical knowledge about object oriented programming and design patterns, but have no idea what to expect from a real .NET development job.
“What should I be studying? What are the common things I should know before any interview?”
3. Developers who do stay on top of the latest technologies but can’t sell themselves well. These guys are excellent developers, but can’t find a job, or fail miserably in interviews.
“I know everything there is to know about jQuery; I’m basically John Resig’s twin, but in an interview, I just can’t sell myself very well. If they would give me a chance, I could be such a valuable member of their team.”

Some People Shouldn’t Read This Book

There are a few people who shouldn’t read this book, and I don’t mean that in a nasty way. It’s just that for some people, this is the wrong book.
Don’t read this book if you just want to learn the basics of programming. There are much better books out there for teaching the basics. Come back and read this book after you’ve written a few programs and want to know what to study in order to get a job doing .NET development.
Don’t use the techniques in this book to weasel your way into a job for which you are totally unqualified. You’ll be fired, or at least disrespected, when your co-workers and boss find out you aren’t the expert you claimed to be.
Don’t read any further if you don’t know anything about the Internet. You don’t have to use Facebook and Twitter, but if you’ve never heard of them, that could be signs of a more serious problem.

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