#andy lester

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Keith plays Andy Lester in Ghost Squad: Part 2 (S01xE06) in In Deep.

In Deep is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 2001.

Storyline: Liam discovers that the leader of the white supremacist group is not who he seems. An unwelcome visitor from Garth’s past mistakes Liam’s family for Garth’s - and sets out to exact his revenge on the man whose evidence put him in prison.

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Keith plays Andy Lester in Ghost Squad: Part 1 (S01xE05) in In Deep.

In Deep is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 2001.

Storyline: Liam infiltrates a white supremacist group which has begun a systematic petrol tanker bombing campaign. Garth is assigned to provide backup and support to Liam’s family, but when a vengeful man - whose imprisonment Garth was responsible for - tracks him down, he finds instead that his presence is putting them in mortal danger.

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Book Review - Land the Tech Job You Love

By Andy Lester

So this is going to be pretty short, since I don’t have a whole lot of place to disagree or criticize. Indeed, overt, loud disagreement would kind of go against the point of me reading this book.

Lester’s book outlines a general procedure to follow when looking for a technical job, though really most of the advice can be broadly applied to about any industry (research the job before hand, tailor your resume, don’t talk about anything the interviewer isn’t allowed to ask about, etc etc). At times it felt like the only thing that made this a book for landing a “tech job” was the example questions/resumes/stories were all tech related. You could easily retitle the book “Land the Job You Love” and not have to change much. So in that way, basically anyone can read the book and get something out of it.

Minor annoyance, not really a criticism, but almost all of the examples were from the perspective of looking for a systems administrator job. It doesn’t have an effect on the advice itself, but I would have liked more examples of how someone looking for a programming position should word their responses.

What struck me most about the advice was that it went against the threads of wisdom and advice I had been gathering elsewhere, in particular Reddit’s CS Career Questions subreddit. Where they say to send out as many applications as you can, he says to focus on individual companies. Some people say that the cover letter gets ignored, he says it can be the difference in getting noticed. Now obviously Reddit isn’t a homogeneous hive mind, and every opinion I attributed to it has been disagreed with and debated on the very subreddit itself, but those are the feelings I’ve gathered, and what I’ve been guiding my job search on.

A month and a half in, and I have been unsuccessful.

While that might not actually be a long time, it has felt like an eternity for me, and my need to work and provide worth grows on a daily basis. So I’m going to at least consider this book’s advice, such as in keeping better notes on companies I apply to and trying to tailor my search better.

Overall, it was a quick read, it has a lot of solid info in it. Mostly stuff you can find scattered across blog posts on the subject, and nothing new or ground breaking, but that’s not what I was expecting. Worth a read if you’re on the hunt, regardless if you’re looking for Tech or not.

This wasn’t a very short blog post.