Stuart's Books

Contents

  1. Getting Hired
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. The Recruitment Process
  6. The Job Description
  7. The Job Advert
  8. Types Of Vacancies
  9. The Role Of Recruitment Agencies
  10. Before You Apply For A Job
  11. Applying By Doing
  12. Writing Your Covering Letter
  13. Tailoring Your CV
  14. Applications Received
  15. The CV Sift
  16. Interviews And Assessments
  17. The Job Offer
  18. The Probation Period
  19. Your First Day At Work
  20. Become More Employable
  21. Your Online Presence
  22. The Key Skills That Industry Expects
  23. Feedback Most Welcome
  24. About The Author
  25. Copyright
  26. Licence
  27. Production Notes

Production Notes

If you’re curious about the technology and process used to create this book, I hope the following points go someway towards answering your questions.

Writing

This book was written in Markdown notation, using the Sublime Text 2 text editor. Markdown is a very light-weight notation, allowing me to focus on the content of the book without being distracted by presentation issues at the writing stage.

The Markdown sources for this book are hosted on GitHub at github.com/stuartherbert/getting-hired/. The toc.json file contains all of the chapters in the right order; the CLI PHP script tools/update-nav.php is used to re-generate the HTML version’s navigation sidebar when necessary. You’re most welcome to send in pull requests to help me improve the book for future editions.

Jekyll was used to convert the Markdown sources into the HTML version of the book. You can run Jekyll locally on your laptop to proof your changes as you make them.

Twitter’s Bootstrap CSS framework was used as the basis for the HTML version’s look and feel.

Publishing

The final HTML version of the book is published online via GitHub Pages, with the conversion to HTML once again handled by Jekyll.

The Markdown sources were converted into an intermediate LibreOffice document using pandoc. This intermediate file was then used to create the PDF, Kindle and ePub editions that you can download from the website.

The Kindle edition was created from the LibreOffice document, using calibre. The formatting was controlled by applying a pre-prepared stylesheet to the LibreOffice-format document before exporting to HTML format. Proofing was done using the Kindle app on the iPad and a physical Kindle Paperwhite device.

The ePub edition was created from the LibreOffice document using calibre, using the same formatting stylesheet developed for the Kindle edition. Proofing was done using iBooks preview mode on the iPad.

The PDF edition was created by applying a different pre-prepared stylesheet to the LibreOffice-format document, and then using LibreOffice’s “Save As PDF” option. There are two PDF editions, one sized for British A4 paper, and the other for US letter paper.

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