I went to bed one Wednesday night in September 2011 and as a final note of frustration before my eyelids really sagged that evening, I did a search on Monster.com (the jobs board) on my iPad. The search was "iOS developer."
Wow!
The results floored me. There were half a dozen gigs in Boston alone, and they were all fresh opportunities too. I went to sleep committed to revisit this result and to take positive action on career. Waiting for a shoe to drop just seemed a little unproductive.
On the otherhand, the software engineering scope of mobile device software development really got my imagination boiling and I was hooked. The next day, I rewrote my resume to include my apps and what they did, my education without the year of graduation and my contact details. One page. That's all. Nice.
By the time Friday rolled around, I had two telephone interviews scheduled for the Friday and another on Monday. It was outstanding interest in my iOS development skills.
But, then the recruiters started asking questions:
- Where did you learn your iOS skills?
- Are these apps for a firm?
- What did you do before you started coding?
- What was your pay in your last assignment?
Many of these questions seem so logical now, but at the time they seemed a little hard to appreciate what the recruiter was after.
Then I applied at apple.com/careers and checked out technical roles in Retail in central MA. Eureka! The store nearest our home was hiring a 'Genius.'
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