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Not always. Folks can obtain a degree later in life to throw off the ageism detector.
oh yeah and how do you make up for the years of experience then? fake jobs entries?
Looks like a simpler time. You just say what you did. No need to BS it up to sound like you are gods gift to programming. And once you get the job probably no logging every second of your time.
I've gotten almost every job I've applied for based on that + the interview. The few I haven't gotten, weren't because of the resume (I've always asked why, so I could improve).
Looks like a simpler time. You just say what you did. No need to BS it up to sound like you are gods gift to programming. And once you get the job probably no logging every second of your time.
Very striking for me is listing of height, health and birth date. I would never put these on a CV. All irrelevant.
It was implied that you had to fill out the template properly, including adding a photo, and as a result we were sending unnecessary personal information to all companies we applied to.
[0] https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/editors/en/cv/compose
Very striking for me is listing of height, health and birth date. I would never put these on a CV. All irrelevant.
CVs here in France not only typically include date of birth but also a photo and marital status, too. None of this is relevant to the job search but it's how things are done.
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Yes, clearly this is a misuse of a platform that offers GitHub pages with custom domain support so that users can host their own static sites or blogs. I mean, it’s a also a platform with an embeddable “gists” feature ostensibly for code snippets, but frequently used to access notes of all types. Clearly anyone who has ever typed a plaintext gist is also misusing GitHub. /s Dude, why do you care? It’s not a “project”…
Still begs the question how come it's more attractive to put something onto GH pages rather than creating a simple web site from scratch. Yes I know - buying a domain, hosting, SSL, HTML/CSS etc is considerably more effort even for a static site. But should we be satisfied with the de-facto monopolization of the Web and its attention economy and tracking business model? Part of the problem seems also that folks merel…
As far as hosting dad's CV from 1980 goes, striving for "me too" good-enough web is exactly appropriate. Rational choice.
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I think more reasonably the same phenomenon of experienced workers needing to update their skills in order to stay relevant was going on 50 years ago.
I was 16 in 1986 when I started programming C. Replacing all the old fogeys with their Fortrans and Cobols and .. shudder .. A/PL .. This is not a new thing, this teenage thing. Tomorrow I guide some teenage punk through the wasteland of mobile development. Undoubtedly he's gonna throw some new shit at me. Hah!
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CVs here in France not only typically include date of birth but also a photo and marital status, too. None of this is relevant to the job search but it's how things are done.
They don't need to. It's a bad habit from some old folks and some teachers poorly telling students how to do a resume.
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Ha! The trashcan is usually full of crumpled-up failed attempts. But the smell of typewriter ink. Man, I miss it.
But it's more than the romance of the ink that is missed. One has lost the visual impact of all discards with the use of the virtual trashcan. The psychology of seeing or the stark visual impact of a trashcan filled to the brim with all the imperfect and therefore discarded attempts of one's creative effort is lost - almost forever. These were the metrics of effort now untenable in the virtual trashcan. Gone. Who kno…