I’m going to skip the obvious stuff like: dressing inappropriately, not washing, swearing. If you don’t already know about these mistakes, your parents failed you, and there’s not much I can do to help. If you’re intelligent and reasonably well adjusted, then this article was written with you in mind. While I’m not the world’s best expert on hiring, I have hired IT staff and tech contractors from every continent, sifted through hundreds of resumes, interviewed and trained staff  to interview. So it’s time I shared the most common interview mistakes.

This article looks at what most web developers can learn from most designers’ resumes. To justify a premium pay packet see what these 22 tips can do for your resume.

Hate updating and sharpening your resume? Who doesn’t? Ever compared programmers’ and designers’ resumes? We have. What we discovered is that developers can learn a few tricks from designers’ resumes. Follow these 22 Rules and you’ll be on track to get an offer to negotiate a premium tech salary.  It’s just a matter of making yourself as valuable as possible.

Most developers possess a powerful left brain while designers possess a powerful right brain. Few of us can balance left with right in an Einstein way. This is the main reason why most designers make poor developers, and most developers make lousy designers.

Ever slaved over your resume until silly-o-clock, only to have the wheels fall off in the interview when facing down a ball breaking question you weren’t properly prepared for? Look, if you’re smart, you can handle the regular questions - no problems. It’s the sidewinders that can steal that perfect job right from under your nose.

You know the old adage: “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail?” Just like exams, we know that a few of the tough questions will rear their ugly heads, but since we don’t know which ones, it’s worth preparing for them all.

Here are my (unscientifically proven) 10 worst interview questions, followed by my suggestions on how to handle each, and more questions and tips on preparation.

Your boss should be paying for you to have some fun destressing. It’s your job to persuade them, use these negotiation secrets to get them to say “Yes”.

If you work in IT, and you’re not experiencing stress on the job, consider yourself lucky - very lucky. In a 2006 stress survey, 97% of people working in IT reported that they experienced on the job stress - not just occasionally - but on a daily basis. Medical professionals who frequently experience trauma and death among patients, had the next highest stress.

Some dumbasses still think they can throw their weight around by using threats and initimidation. Why do they do it? Power tactics often work in the short term, but…