Nice, but http://r.dakko.us/ is still the winner in my book.
ha, klange never cease to amaze. Icing on the toaru cake.
My resume in an Operating system
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Re: My resume in an Operating system
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
How dare anybody have fun and explore new things! Everything should be done the right way with no exploration or messing around with stuff for fun.
I took it as satire. Guaranteed somebody could find a way to disqualify an applicant for this. Here are some hiring manager thought bubbles: * "Oh boy, this takes me back to installing Slackware from floppies. So I guess you're more of a backend/systems guy? This is a full stack position. Are you sure you want to work on the frontend?" * "Amateur hour. Copied somebody else's bootloader. We really would like to see mo…
Being disqualified isn't inherently a bad thing. I work hard to ensure my "profile" ensures I get disqualified from things I don't have any interest in, to keep focus on the areas I do well.
E.g. if he is a backend guy, then making that exceedingly clear is a good way of a) avoiding recruiter spam about frontend positions, b) stand out as someone qualifying themselves as a specialist.
The latter is more important the more senior positions you go for - nobody will believe you're an expert at everything, and clearly qualifying yourself with respect to which areas you know in depth makes demonstrates confidence (contrast with the candidate who changes his tune about which subjects they specialise in the moment you mention another technology, trying to be perfect for anything you mention - it is rarely credible)
Re: My resume in an Operating system
#43Assuming that employers are going to stumble upon the HTML version of your resume, I would cut out this line from the top: > Hates design & frontend. There's only so much above-the-fold space on a webpage (especially on mobile) and it's not worth devoting such valuable real-estate telling people how much you hate anything , nevermind two important skillsets. Also, your design sense seems to be fine, and you obviously…
Another problem is that Google is still caching the "hates design" from his Twitter feed: https://www.google.com/#q=mathieu+passenaud
Re: My resume in an Operating system
#44What would be more impressive to me and practical would be spending time contributing to the Linux kernel. That is something that companies would more likely be interested in.
Re: My resume in an Operating system
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
How dare anybody have fun and explore new things! Everything should be done the right way with no exploration or messing around with stuff for fun.
It might be a fun project, but also kinda useless. If I where hiring and one of the applications was a virtual machine image or a boot-able CD, and nothing else, I won't even look at it. There no way I'm booting some random operating system someone mail in or dropped of. Of cause if you drop of the application and resume, along with your "operating resume", why would I look at it, when I already have a PDF or paper v…
Perfect fit then: you wouldn't hire him and he wouldn't work for you.
Re: My resume in an Operating system
#46This kind of thing is an excellent answer to "I need to have a github to get hired, but all my work is copyrighted and NDA'd". Rather like a "masterwork" in the context of the old craft guilds. An overly-elaborate demonstration of skills as proof of credentials.
Some electronics hobbyists have various sorts of circuit board "business cards" that serve this purpose. I've been considering doing one of those myself.
Re: My resume in an Operating system
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Without "alternance" as in full time in school or full time in company? I'd guess the latter since the name is "Licence professionnelle " and not spending time in a company would defeat the purpose.
Full time university. Full time in company getting you degrees is... quite hard in France The "Professionelle" part is more about the fact that after it you should not continue studying but go for a career.
Oh, okay.. I see now. This category has its own ministry here, neither with "Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique", nor with "Ministère de l'Éducation". They have a "Ministère de la Formation et de l'Enseignement Professionnels".
They get in with a different baccalauréat UFC (Université de la Formation Continue) which anyone can take even without necessarily being enrolled in high-school.
Some of those who are enrolled in high-school hedge their bet and go for regular BAC and UFC BAC. They often fail the regular BAC but succeed at the other and enter UFC which has classes inside "real" universities after hours. Not dedicated classrooms, though.
They came out of class one day and I said I've never seen them around (they didn't look the part) and they informed me who they were and talked about what they were learning, etc.
Re: My resume in an Operating system
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might be a fun project, but also kinda useless. If I where hiring and one of the applications was a virtual machine image or a boot-able CD, and nothing else, I won't even look at it. There no way I'm booting some random operating system someone mail in or dropped of. Of cause if you drop of the application and resume, along with your "operating resume", why would I look at it, when I already have a PDF or paper v…
Perfect fit then: you wouldn't hire him and he wouldn't work for you.
i wish he wouldn't comment about his inane proclivities and i couldn't read his comments either...
Re: My resume in an Operating system
#49What would be more impressive to me and practical would be spending time contributing to the Linux kernel. That is something that companies would more likely be interested in.
This is kind of dismissive, mean, and misses the point. It's like watching a person make 100 free throws in a row, then saying you'd be more impressed if he go into the NBA.
It's an order of magnitude more difficult to make a meaningful contribution to the Linux kernel, so of course it would be more impressive.
Re: My resume in an Operating system
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably an even bigger problem is that this resume is now going to come up every time a recruiter searches for "design & frontend". (This might not be a problem in France. Here in the San Francisco area in the U.S. it seems common for recruiters to blindly contact the first 200 developers whose resumes contain relevant keywords.)
Incidentally, they blind keyword use is easily (ab)used to get past their initial filtering, by working in honest mentions of things you don't have experience with but which will fit relevant keywords. "I don't have much experience with X, but have worked extensively with Y and Z" Need to be careful about overdoing it, of course.
"Here is a list of all computer skills, with a check mark next to the ones I have:"