Manlio Rules

I am currently trying to fill a role for a illustrator for my company. I posted an ad on craigslist and received a ton of resumes and portfolios. well, not a ton, maybe like 15 in the first day. His my advice to job seekers based on these resumes.

1. don’t just send me your resume with a link to the job description. at least say hello and introduce yourself.
2. I don’t care what format your resume is in, but Rich Text Fomat? Really?
3. If you send me a .pdf of your work samples, something under 50mb would be nice.
4. Your portfolio should have a title. it goes in the “title” tag in the header. Acceptable titles include: your name, “portfolio”, “your name’s portfolio”, some other random site name you made up like “3superwebvision”, or some combination of the above. Unacceptable titles include: “index”, “index2″, “mysite.html”, or “this site created by microsoft FrontPage”.
5. If i’m looking for a Flash designer, and Flash Designer is in both the title of the position and mentioned as the number one software requirement, please don’t send me a portfolio with NO FLASH SAMPLES.

Less obnoxious but still

1. If you send me a link to your flash portfolio, try and make sure that there aren’t a ton of scripting errors on it, causing my debugger to pop up repeatedly. I should admit that i may have some of these on my site, and i sure see them a lot on professional websites, so i’m sympathetic to this one, but still.
2. Try to mention the company name at least once in your email or show me some sign that you read the job description and maybe even went to the web page. i know it’s tough when you’re applying to a ton of jobs but still.
3. If you do mention the company name, double check to make sure you spelled it right.

I saw an interesting presentation at the flash gaming summit yesterday, about haxe. The pitch is one language that can then be made into several others. I’m going to give it a try and see how it works. My suspicion is that it’ll be like a Swiss army knife: great for small tasks and too limited for large ones. But who knows?

Haxe

One other thing that is a bit troubling is that there doesn’t appear to be a straightforward IDE for Haxe on the Mac (FlashDevelop works on the PC). I use Flexbuilder/Eclipse for my Flash stuff, and Coda for my web dev stuff, and Textmate for various file editing (though less and less lately). In order to use Haxe properly, i will probably need to buy Espresso, which is a Coda competitor (looks pretty solid) and also has some light weight AS3 code completion capabilities, though nothing particularly useful since it can’t seem to identify the type and context of user variables.