Category Archive for 'On the Job'

Angus Gossip

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

The Angus Association has been experiencing quite a bit of turmoil. Many of their employees are eligible to retire now. As predicted, they are leaving in droves. In the past four months, four employees and a CEO have retired. These are expected. What was surprising and unexpected, is the announcement from the Director of Junior [...]

The Photo Department Revisited

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

The Good
I did not realize part of the Photo department’s problem was multiple versions of the same photo. All I saw half a million photos listed on a single server, with a count close to 750,000 photos in total on all the servers. It didn’t occur to me that the most basic file management solution [...]

The mid-season slumps

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

I feel like an uninspired SOB. I can’t tell you the last time I worked on something fun, new or intriguing. I have been plodding away at updates and cleaning up web sites, day after day, for so long I can’t remember the last intellectually stimulating project I had.
Most of the time, I can look [...]

Wanted: Entry-Level Front End Coder

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

We build web sites, run e-mail campaigns, post print deliverables online, manage e-classifieds, cover Angus events live on the Web and shake up the Ag. industry in general. This position can be considered an open internship if you are a student. It is a part-time gig, with pay based on level of experience and knowledge.
Requirements:

Exceptional [...]

Not Just a Web Monkey

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

I recently read posts on a job site in order to emulate a good job description for our potential part-time employee.
I hate being in that spot where the description reads like it’s over a candidate’s head (but the job is not), or when the job is really more responsibility than articulated (but the wording makes [...]