IT Buzzwords needed

Flammableboy

Hi,

I goin for an interview tomorrow for a job that involves improving a companies websites search results. Any good buzz words or things I should say. Also it involves bettering the effectiveness of eshots. Any Help very much appreciated...

SoundWave

Touch Base.... Max the Envelope... Conceptualize.... eeehhh... linebacker*



*been watchin too much strongbad

yossarin

"meta information"

"hubs and authorities" (about google: http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html - worth a scan read)

if you want to look all deep level experienced / interested in future directions for the web, check out the
semantic web (actually a cool project by the w3c concerned with machine readable tags being hidden in web pages: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/)


whats eshots - the online photo thing ?

henbane

Check http://www.dack.com/web/bull****.html

Bollards - that bullshit.html

ando

This line will get you places:

"That would be an ecumenical matter"

dazberry

Originally posted by ando
This line will get you places:

"That would be an ecumenical matter"

Feck!

I goin for an interview tomorrow for a job that involves improving a companies websites search results. Any good buzz words or things I should say. Also it involves bettering the effectiveness of eshots. Any Help very much appreciated...

If you don't know them, don't use them. In fact if you don't know why to use them, don't use them. At a recent meeting an award winning web crowd who we were trying to explain WW3 standards to (like that's our job FFS) exclaimed to using WW2 standards (WTF), and all they could talk about was website navigation bread crumbs. If you really want to join the idiot set then I'll get my people to ring your people and we'll do lunch. Otherwise go in without the BS factor.

D.

Gav_b

And what ever you do, don't start a sentence "Basicly, ...."

sceptre

I used "synergy" this morning in a presentation when I was asked a question.

Don't worry - I apologised right after

xern

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IT buzzwords

yossarin

Otherwise go in without the BS factor

yeah actually - thats the ticket. The attidude that has won me interviews has been the anti-BS approach.

Know how search engines work, know how the web works, great. But if you can't explain them without using small words then you might come across as a bUll****ter.

Best to never go into technical detail in an interview if you can avoid it. If you're explaining a standard in depth then you're not talking about how great you are.

Flammableboy

Cheers for that. Its only a part of the overall job so hopefully I can blab enough about it and move on to the things I can talk for hours about. Right, gotta leave now....

ever so slightly nervously!!!...

yossarin

a few days later....

....how did it go ?

ando

I betya he used my line and is now MD

nahdoic

Originally posted by xern
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IT buzzwords

LOL! Bingo!

Dizz

I used "synergy"

Oh no I used it in an application for a job just recently... eeek! Prob will never hear from them again lol

Hobbes

Originally posted by sceptre
I used "synergy" this morning in a presentation when I was asked a question.

Don't worry - I apologised right after

*twitch* ... *twitch* *twitch* o_O''

I used to have a boss who would use all that crap. What was worse he would get them wrong like, "Work harder, not smarter". Or he would use "synergy" without actually knowing Wtf the word actually meant.

nahdoic

Originally posted by Hobbes
"Work harder, not smarter ...

lol. i'm really loving this thread.

sceptre

Originally posted by Hobbes
I used to have a boss who would use all that crap. What was worse he would get them wrong like, "Work harder, not smarter".

Yeah, I actually felt quite embarrassed about it. I was using it in its perfect sense though but given my usual hatred of marketing droids I felt quite dirty. I should have used "improved economies of scale" instead to emphasise the importance of the economic nature of what I was talking about (I used to be an accountant - I'm allowed to use that one).

Gf's doing a course in Galway with one module in "Management". Half her class use these buzzwords without understanding them.

My last boss would say things like "we should really be more pro-active". It's given me a hatred of the phrase (and idiot non-tech bosses who are even crap accountants at that) since. I explained the (brief) etymology of the word once and she actually got worse at it.