From a hiring manager perspective, I look at github accounts and personal websites.
Ask HN: Hey recruiters, do you look at my personal website?
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Re: Ask HN: Hey recruiters, do you look at my personal website?
#12I'm pretty sure most of them don't. My resume is either still out there on some "jobs" web site somewhere or it's been sold/shared between recruiting firms as I still get one or two "cold" e-mails a week from a recruiter; I haven't been "looking" for 5+ years. In mine, near the beginning, it says something to the effect of "If the responsibilities for your position include the words 'Microsoft' or 'Windows' anywhere,…
Broadly this.
If your CV mentions you connect to, use API of, or sit next to someone using some random thing you'll be regularly contacted for work in that random thing. Most recruiters seem to stop at a keyword match or two.
Interviewers and potential employers are much more likely to look, and follow through with relevant questions at interview.
Re: Ask HN: Hey recruiters, do you look at my personal website?
#13I'm pretty sure most of them don't. My resume is either still out there on some "jobs" web site somewhere or it's been sold/shared between recruiting firms as I still get one or two "cold" e-mails a week from a recruiter; I haven't been "looking" for 5+ years. In mine, near the beginning, it says something to the effect of "If the responsibilities for your position include the words 'Microsoft' or 'Windows' anywhere,…
> "If the responsibilities for your position include the words 'Microsoft' or 'Windows' anywhere, I am not interested in the position. Please do not contact me." You're going to hold off the recruiters who conscientiously scan resumes and take such requests seriously at the expense of triggering automated scans for those keywords. I doubt if it's a net win.
Additionally, as someone who isn't a recruiter and doesn't work with any Microsoft products, this might actually come off as a bit of a red flag. The intention may be to stave off recruiters that blindly fire off job postings, but it comes off as egotistical.
Re: Ask HN: Hey recruiters, do you look at my personal website?
#14I do, but I'm an outlier. I have a CS degree and 20 years of software experience, so I'll actually look at your code and if I know that language, take a look at your style. I've seen someone check all her Emacs autosave (~) files into Github. And unnecessarily jam multiple classes into one file. That was a bad sign. All but a handful of recruiters will not because they simply don't understand any of that. They don't…
If I have side project I have to do in Java, you bet I'm going to have a lot of static inner class abuse. Perhaps you just don't understand the tradeoffs.
First, this didn't stop me from inviting the applicant to discuss her work/knowledge relevant to the job. She did not respond.
Second, it's totally possible I misunderstood something. I do run the largest JUG in SoCal, so I'm not a complete Java noob. But in truth the last few years have been Groovy, and I'm not close to being a FT coder. I don't claim to be a Java expert.
However :-) You are assuming these were static inner classes, and they weren't inner/nested at all. These were multiple top level classes in one file. I can see how maybe you'd do that for composition, and I did it once to get around a wrinkle in Grails, but this really seemed unnecessary. They weren't short classes. This person was a masters candidate and had little production experience, and the whole thing came off as rushed and sloppy. Frankly, seeing all those ~ files because there was no gitignore bothered me more.
Re: Ask HN: Hey recruiters, do you look at my personal website?
#15I do, but I'm an outlier. I have a CS degree and 20 years of software experience, so I'll actually look at your code and if I know that language, take a look at your style. I've seen someone check all her Emacs autosave (~) files into Github. And unnecessarily jam multiple classes into one file. That was a bad sign. All but a handful of recruiters will not because they simply don't understand any of that. They don't…
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Re: Ask HN: Hey recruiters, do you look at my personal website?
#16Not sure if the HR person checked out my site, but I know at least one of the interviewers did as he asked me about a personal project I was blogging heavily about during the interview.
Re: Ask HN: Hey recruiters, do you look at my personal website?
#17Not sure if the HR person checked out my site, but I know at least one of the interviewers did as he asked me about a personal project I was blogging heavily about during the interview.
You were blogging heavily during the interview? I can understand that he asked...
Re: Ask HN: Hey recruiters, do you look at my personal website?
#18Not sure if the HR person checked out my site, but I know at least one of the interviewers did as he asked me about a personal project I was blogging heavily about during the interview.
You were blogging heavily during the interview? I can understand that he asked...
I like to think they appreciated my ability to multitask under pressure.
Re: Ask HN: Hey recruiters, do you look at my personal website?
#19From my experience most recruiters ever contacted me were just buzzwords detectives. When i put in my linkedin profile how can i help, what are benefits of my work, what can i bring to the table, almost no one reach me with specific job offer. Just one message during month or two.
Another sad thing is that job description is very often the same bullshit as most linkedin CV's. They put in every buzzword, but reality is somewhere else. Your day-to-day tasks are far away from original requirements and very often also from whole job description. Same is it with candidates. Matching between buzzwords and real candidate value is very difficult. And only real HR professional can do it.
Outsourced hiring process make this gap and misleading even bigger. They play just keyword matching game (good opportunity to automate them).
I think that something like HN's karma should be implemented in linkedin. Current situation is facebook style (more friends more reputation). At least this could help filter HR pros from spammers.
Re: Ask HN: Hey recruiters, do you look at my personal website?
#20I do, but I'm an outlier. I have a CS degree and 20 years of software experience, so I'll actually look at your code and if I know that language, take a look at your style. I've seen someone check all her Emacs autosave (~) files into Github. And unnecessarily jam multiple classes into one file. That was a bad sign. All but a handful of recruiters will not because they simply don't understand any of that. They don't…
If I have side project I have to do in Java, you bet I'm going to have a lot of static inner class abuse. Perhaps you just don't understand the tradeoffs.
Why?