About the Authors

Floyd Earl Smith is a leading Silicon Valley technical communicator and author, with more than 20 books to his credit. His career includes a long stint at Apple in the 1990s, as well as work for Microsoft, IBM, AltaVista, AOL, and financial institution HSBC. Floyd’s best-sellers include Creating Web Pages For Dummies, 9th Edition; several editions of AutoCAD For Dummies; and Internet Marketing For Dummies. In addition to his writing work, Floyd is active in 350 Bay Area, a Northern California nonprofit working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit climate change.

Kathy Taylor is one of the leading executive recruiters in Silicon Valley, boasting a success record of more than 95 percent on searches. She concentrates on startups and emerging growth companies, serving as the go-to person for many VCs (venture capital firms) in Silicon Valley. Kathy served for ten years as head of TalentPlanet, a boutique executive search from specializing in the C-suite (CEOs, CFOs, and so on), as well as top positions in sales, marketing, and business development. Productivity expert Hugh Culver says of Kathy, “If you get a chance to work with Kathy, don’t let it slip by!”

Dedication

Kathy and Floyd dedicate this book to the many talented people who continue to build a new world online that’s more open, interesting, and fun than what came before.

Authors' Acknowledgments

Kathy and Floyd would like to thank Wiley for the opportunity to write this foundational book in the Getting a Job For Dummies series now pouring forth from the presses — physical and digital — of this iconic imprint.

We appreciate the effort of Steve Hayes to start and finish the project with us; of Andy Cummings to step in when Steve was pulled onto other projects, helping to keep things on track; and, most especially to project editor Linda Morris, who stuck with us as our trickle of writing early in the project finally crested to something resembling a flood. Our technical editor, Brian Benedict, made incisive comments that improved the book.

We would like to conclude by thanking our talented and knowledgeable agent, Carol Jelen, an executive at top digital and print agency Waterside Productions.

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

Executive Editor: Steve Hayes

Project Editor: Linda Morris

Copy Editor: Linda Morris

Technical Editor: Brian Benedict

Editorial Assistant: Claire Brock

Sr. Editorial Assistant: Cherie Case

Project Coordinator: Patrick Redmond

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