Jules' front end development recognized by Yahoo!"

I received an interesting contact form submission one evening, by a Yahoo! talent scout.

Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:53:26 -0600
Subject: Form Submission
To: jules@webveteran.com
From: <XXXXX@yahoo-inc.com>
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Name: Teddi XXXXXXXX
Email: XXXXX@yahoo-inc.com
Phone: (408)XXX-XXXX
Company: Yahoo
Website: www.yahoo.com
City: Sunnyvale
State: CA
Question:

Hi Jules,
My name is Teddi XXXXXXXX and I’m a Talent Scout with Yahoo.
I would like to discuss Front End Engineering roles we have
with Yahoo. When might be a good time to speak?

Thanks,
Teddi

So... that was nice!

Later that night I spoke with Teddi on the phone. Being very good at her job, she knew right away that my resume was formatted from a Monster.com template. And then she gave me advice about resume writing.
I showed her some of my front end work, both of my own site and live examples of sites I’ve coded. She was very impressed.

I showed her that a search in Yahoo! for “freelance web development” shows me as the first result. And I’m number two for “freelance web developer”. I was surprised she didn’t know that. She asked “how did you pull that off?!” The reply: “It’s my job”.

Now, the problem is, that their development team is in sunny California. And I’m in NY. Yahoo! has offices in NY, but they are marketing teams. I asked what are the odds of me doing the development work for Yahoo! in NY. The reply: “Zero.”
I don’t know where it will lead. But at least it was nice to be recognized.