Hey there!  If you’ve got a question about the PHP job market - either as an employer, job seeker or freelance contractor, post it here.  Or email me at mgkimsal@gmail.com.  Or perhaps you’ve got a question about my recent book - the PHP Job Hunter’s Handbook. Again, feel free to drop me a line [...]

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This was a question I wrestled with when starting the book.  I personally have been doing PHP since 1996, so I’m not a ‘newbie’ either with PHP, or in the job market.  I’ve found that the further you go on in your career, the more specialized a job hunt can end up being.  Besides geographic [...]

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Hello all! First things first - the PHP Job Hunter’s Handbook was published on June 2 by php|architect!  Of course it’d be great if you were to go buy a copy or two - they make great Father’s Day or July 4th presents :)  In a few months they’ll even make great Labor day presents!
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Nick Halsted wrote a blog entry describing a set of Yahoo pre-interview questions used for PHP candidates.  I thought it would be useful to post a link here.  I am working on getting some input from Yahoo for the upcoming book as well.  A contact had showed some initial support, but getting that ironed out [...]

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I have been poring through the responses, working them in to the book project, and there’s some really great stuff in there.  I got re-energized during the past two weeks, which has given me more oomph to get this book out.  I’d wanted to have it available for my OSCON presentation, but I don’t think [...]

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Hello all!
It’s taking longer than I thought to parse through all the great responses to the survey.  There were over 30 detailed responses, and it’s proving to be more time consuming than I estimated to go through each one and make useful sense out of all of these.  I haven’t dropped this project, and will [...]

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Thanks to everyone who has replied to the survey so far.  I got some good feedback from people, and will likely be adding another category to the survey for people hiring contractors instead of full time employees, and possibly a separate survey specifically for contractors.

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I’ve put together the first draft of the survey/interview questions.  I was initially planning on doing all face to face (or skype to skype) interviews with people, but I think time constraints are going to make that very difficult.  To get around that, I’m putting out the invitation to the PHP community to participate in [...]

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I’m putting together my base set of questions to ask people involved in the hiring process at companies hiring PHP developers.  I’m aiming to talk to people from a wide variety of companies, including both large and small, and software shops vs. non-software shops.  In one sense almost any company ‘has’ a software department, but [...]

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I’ve spent the last couple days revisiting what I have since I’d put the PHP job book project on hold last year, and it’s really - well, it’s better than I remembered, which is encouraging.  Although I would not say I’m a professional writer, I think like many writers, I may be my own worst [...]

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