Mar
6
2008
Build Your Resume With Movable Type
Movable Type is well-known for letting you easily build beautiful websites, but what may not be as obvious is that your Movable Type skills can help you build a successful career.
You see, a few years ago, for a lot of web professionals, it was good enough to say that you had knowledge about coding or markup or design or strategy. But these days, companies all over the world use Movable Type as a fundamental part of their business -- from media companies that rely on MT to publish content to Fortune 500 corporations that have integrated MT into the process of sharing information on an intranet.
As we've been investing in making Movable Type more scalable and reliable and bulletproof, we've also spent a lot of time explaining to companies how valuable their in-house MT experts are, because we know just how resourceful and innovative our community members can be. The great news is that these efforts are paying off. Take a look, for example, at the list of responsibilities on this recent job posting at the American Institute of Biological Sciences:
Seeing the maintenance of a Movable Type publishing infrastructure as the first responsibility in a job description shows the transformation that's happened. We've come a long way from "I hope the new IT hire knows a little bit of HTML, too." And whether you're interested in hanging out with scientist at AIBS, or working for a major media company, or bootstrapping an up-and-coming new blog network, we're working to make sure that having "Experience with Movable Type" on your resume is something that distinguishes you from the rest of the field.
- Maintaining and extending several Movable Type and PHP-based Web sites featuring science and biology-oriented content
- Managing a junior staff member who's primary foci are end-user support for a staff of 15-30 and Web site maintenance
- Serving as IT Department liaison to Department Managers (3-5) in the headquarters office, working to understand needs, propose effective solutions, arrive at consensus, and implement
- Manage (and assist with management of) relationships/contracts with vendors supporting technology infrastructure for the headquarters office, and vendors assisting with technology project implementation
- Assuming responsibility for technology infrastructure maintenance and growth for non-IT staff
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