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Marc Cenedella

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Marc Cenedella's personal blog at cenedella.com covers career and politics. Since 2009, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Leonardo da Vinci's Resume”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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28mentions?
18HN people?
2009–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Marc Cenedella's blog mainly for his Leonardo da Vinci-style resume post, which is reposted and cited in resume discussions. Other links cover job searching and TheLadders.com.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Leonardo da Vinci's Resume
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-02-18
  2. Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Original author here. This was a little side project to have some fun and maybe spread a little value. I frantically threw this together over the weekend to be ready for the traffic Marc Cenedella (CEO of TheLadders.com) promised me today. His posts: http://twitter.com/cenedella/status/57759591789887489# and http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resum... Thank you, Marc. As many of you know, I spend…

    Comment linking /job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resume-2/

    on “Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments”
  2. Submitted Stone: Leonardo da Vinci's Resume as a story · 112 points

    HN discussion
  3. The original written by Leonardo da Vinci is here: http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resum... The site also took an extremely long time to respond for me, which was kind of amusing given the content when it finally did load: > I know how, when a website is besieged, to shard data onto the cloud, and make endless variety of mirrors, and fault tolerant disks and RAIDs, and other machines pertainin…

    Comment linking /job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resume/

    on “edw519's Resume, Leonardo da Vinci Style”
  4. Submitted Leonardo da Vinci's Resume as a story · 96 points

    HN discussion
  5. I originally wrote this in January, 2010 here on Hacker News in response to Marc Cenedella's blog post: http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resum... I reposted it on my blog yesterday in anticipation of Leonardo's birthday on April 15.

    Comment linking /job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resume/

    on “edw519's Resume, Leonardo da Vinci Style”
  6. Submitted Leonardo da Vinci’s resume as a story · 83 points

    HN discussion
  7. They seem to employ a several dozen developers in NYC: http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/photos-of-us/ I wouldn't think a giant job and resume board needed this many people to run.

    Comment linking /job-search/photos-of-us/

    on “How TheLadders.com scam works”
  8. Submitted How can I tell if I am failing at my entrepreneurial venture or start-up? as a story · 73 points

    HN discussion
  9. grakic · 2012-08-21Recommends
    This is sweet. You may want to put a focus on how you can create value for your future employer when talking about yourself and your skills. I like this example http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resum... And I was told once that telling a positive story of your ideal working environment may sweettalk a VP to push you through the HR.

    Comment linking /job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resume/

    on “Hire Sander to your awesome team”
  10. Submitted Leonardo da Vinci's resume as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Why is "real" unemployment skyrocketing? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted The 21 questions you need to ask in a job interview as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted The Boy Who Followed Somebody Else's Dream as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted How to persuade your MBA boss to buy you more monitors as a story · 3 points

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  16. Submitted Leonardo da Vinci's resume as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Long before Google, the Soviets also had 20% time as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Turn the tables: the 20 questions you can ask in a job interview. as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Leonardo da Vinci's resume as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted How can I tell if I am really an entrepreneur or just someone who talks about... as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted West Coast vs. East Coast: April Fools’ Day in Internet startup culture as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted Our White Collar Nation as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted The 8-minute resume as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted “Facebook turned me down…” and you’ll never believe what happened next… as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Recruiters are jerks… aren’t they? as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted "Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations?" - commentary & advice as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Who did you become? as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted How I learned to dream in code. as a story · 1 points

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