Archive for February, 2007

commute times…

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

On the train in this morning, the length of time spent commuting was pondered. This train of thought was started a few days ago by an article about how the cachement area of Dublin is approaching that of Los Angeles, but without the infrastructure. We spend about 95 minutes from door to desk each way, […]

cold calls

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Today I had a cold call from a recruiter… on my work phone! After a little research, it seems that recruiters are looking at linkedin profiles (mine is at http://www.linkedin.com/in/ooleary) and ringing the employer’s switchboard directly. I’m not impressed by this as a practice. My mobile number is easy to find if you know […]