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Job Search Tips: Optimizing Your Job Search Network

For those job seekers that don’t already know, developing and leveraging a network of friends and professionals is one of the most effective methods–aside from group job hunting–for finding and obtaining the job that is just right. However, there are ways to approach your network to make it work for you. So let’s review three critical steps

Step #1: Start Now–Even if You Aren’t Actively Searching

This is an absolute necessity! It is also the area in which most job seekers fail miserably. Think about it. To use a network, you need

41 Tips for optimizing your php code

1. If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of 4.

2. echo is faster than print.

3. Use echo’s multiple parameters instead of string concatenation.

4. Set the maxvalue for your for-loops before and not in the loop.

5. Unset your variables to free memory, especially large arrays.

6. Avoid magic like __get, __set, __autoload

7. require_once() is expensive

8. Use full paths in includes and requires, less time spent on resolving the OS paths.

9. If you need to find out the time when the script