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Re: Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

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Post by lotsofpulp »

perl4ever wrote: post #180
edoo wrote: post #148

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Since they instituted the communist economic system that makes it impossible to save capital by draining the purchasing power of the currency at an exponential rate the working class has been on a steep downhill decline. I think it is pretty obvious at this point the experiment has failed.

I'm sure this will convince nobody of anything, but inflation in the US in July was 1.8% (annualized) in July, and a Vanguard money market fund was yielding 1.9% recently. What more can you ask, whether you're ranting in favor of or against socialism? Risk free returns maintain your purchasing power, while at the same time, you get essentially nothing for taking no risk with capital. This seems exactly how it should…

I know all the academic work that goes into calculating inflation, but it’s never tracked to my comings and goings in a very high COL area. My health insurance premiums alone just increased 10%, not even counting the increases in deductible, copay, and oop max.

Re: Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

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Post by tmaly »

edoo wrote: post #57
crdoconnor wrote: post #32

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Somewhat ironic since we were told in no uncertain terms that automation would cause the exact opposite to happen.

Capitalism sees most the productivity gains to the workers. I think our experiment has failed and it is time to try capitalism again. Our country hasn't seen it for over 100 years.

I think you mean laissez faire capitalism

Re: Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

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Post by tmaly »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #201
perl4ever wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure this will convince nobody of anything, but inflation in the US in July was 1.8% (annualized) in July, and a Vanguard money market fund was yielding 1.9% recently. What more can you ask, whether you're ranting in favor of or against socialism? Risk free returns maintain your purchasing power, while at the same time, you get essentially nothing for taking no risk with capital. This seems exactly how it should…

I know all the academic work that goes into calculating inflation, but it’s never tracked to my comings and goings in a very high COL area. My health insurance premiums alone just increased 10%, not even counting the increases in deductible, copay, and oop max.

There are serious consequences to calculating inflation.

If the published number spikes, so does the COL adjustments for social security. This would easily put the government underwater.

Re: Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

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Post by tenpoundhammer »

bhl wrote: post #193
tenpoundhammer wrote: post #125

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TLDR; The cost of a bad hire is extremely high and not worth the risk. I'm a team lead and do a fair number of interviews. It's amazing how many people can talk about their experience and make a ton of really impressive statements that makes it appear as though they are knowledgeable and then that person can't perform a simple coding exercise. On the other hand, it's equally amazing how a person can do an excellent j…

Do you find that junior hires are typically inflexible when it comes to personality and or coding skills? Or are we talking about more experienced hires who shouldn’t need as much investment and resources to get up to par. As a college senior who’s terrible at recruiting, I’m confused about employer expectations in this regard.

I was referring to the whole range. Skills are much easier to teach than personality improvements, but it's still very resource intensive to train some one with very few skills. Often times we make a conscience decision to hire a junior engineer but expect negative productivity for 3 - 6 months and then very little productivity for the first year or so.

For personality traits if someone is setting off red flags that they would cause a lot of conflict and issues it's an easy pass. It's extremely difficult and unreliable to attempt to coach someone into changing their personality. It's also just really emotionally draining for the person that has to do the work.

If you would like to get in touch I would be happy to provide some Job hunting coaching free of cost.

Send an email to my temp email account i5kjl5+8ydjdw8gaoikw@sharklasers.com

Re: Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

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Post by WhompingWindows »

melvinroest wrote: post #122
Droobfest wrote: post #113

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I think he meant job applications ;)

Haha, whoops :D 30 EU 20 US I have no illusions about the US, but I try anyway.

Haha, thanks for those list of apps, nice job on those. You seem like a very hard-working and thoughtful person. Keep on keeping on, you'll get there, Melvin!!! FWIW, I'm 30 now, but I probably sent 150-200 failed job applications in my 20's, across 3 different job searches. I remember when I was your age, I just got a Biological Research undergrad degree, it was 2011 and the job market was still very poor...I simply could NOT find any work, I applied to over 50 research jobs and I only got 2 interviews, both of which I was passed over for more "experienced" candidates. It sucks, it really does, just set a daily or weekly "job app quota" for yourself...mine was low but I decided 1 job app per day, with customized cover letter and customized resume. I had a huge resume with ALL of my stuff on it, then for each job I'd trim out the least relevant stuff, then I'd throw that rezzie and a custom-written cover letter into a folder, so I'd then have those if a very similar-sounding job came up later.

Re: Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

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Post by melvinroest »

michaelbrave wrote: post #108
melvinroest wrote: post #24

I'm honestly experiencing this as a CS grad in the Dutch job market. I find it weird and frustrating. I've noticed why: 1. Companies don't dare to value creativity [1]. University is so liberal and the job market is so the opposite. 2. Most companies can't value a CS degree. The exception is when enough people in the company did a CS degree and that's a lot more rare than I thought. 3. University didn't teach me to f…

50% rejection means you are doing great actually, most people get a 10% or less callback

I verified this with someone else. Thanks for stating this.

I’ve had a huge baseline fallacy.

Re: Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

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Post by gwbas1c »

perl4ever wrote: post #188
gwbas1c wrote: post #155

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Well, you weren't part of the interviews, so you have no business deciding if we made the right call to reject particular candidates. I can tell you that these were very obvious "no" situations. In one case, the candidate was incompetent and only made it to on-site because of a horrible HR snafu. The resume shouldn't have made it past screening. In another case, the candidate nearly started an argument with me over w…

"Both of these candidates were fundamentally unfit for office work" This is the sort of thing that sounds very bleak to people who imagine being judged the same way, possibly unfairly. And it's even more painful because someone on the cusp may not be sure themselves that they can or can't function. However, it can be empowering, in that someone recovering from health issues can realize that technical chops are almost…

To be quite frank, in software engineering, about half of the job is being able to work well with others.

This means being able to make it through a job interview without having a temper tantrum.

Re: Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

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Post by perl4ever »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #201
perl4ever wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure this will convince nobody of anything, but inflation in the US in July was 1.8% (annualized) in July, and a Vanguard money market fund was yielding 1.9% recently. What more can you ask, whether you're ranting in favor of or against socialism? Risk free returns maintain your purchasing power, while at the same time, you get essentially nothing for taking no risk with capital. This seems exactly how it should…

I know all the academic work that goes into calculating inflation, but it’s never tracked to my comings and goings in a very high COL area. My health insurance premiums alone just increased 10%, not even counting the increases in deductible, copay, and oop max.

I was just reading a news article that claimed ACA premiums are down like 4%. Then again, now that I have an employer-provided plan (since about 5 months ago) (that appears to be worse than the ACA option) it's going up noticeably for 2020.

The smallest reform to the healthcare system that I think would be substantially beneficial, is just to let ACA plans compete for employed people on an equal basis. It's unreasonable that once you have a job then you have to pay way more for a marketplace plan. I'm nowhere near my deductible for the forseeable future, but certain office visits doubled in price just because I have a job with a temp agency that provides shitty insurance that effectively disqualifies me for an ACA plan.

Re: Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

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Post by perl4ever »

pmiller2 wrote: post #200
perl4ever wrote: post #192

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I think I have a good understanding of SQL optimization, and it came from an environment of writing endless adhoc SQL for database updates and reports, where, no, it didn't matter in the least if your query took 6 seconds or 60 seconds. But the challenge was to write and run a query in a matter of minutes and not hours, or days, or weeks, and not to spend time on false starts or elaborate queries that left you uncert…

Re: human timescales, I have also run into this in my career. I wrote calibration and test software a few years ago, and it didn’t matter if a test took 1 minute, 3 minutes, or 10 minutes, because those were all “push the button, sit there and wait” scale. 15-30 minutes is “push the button and take a short break.” 60-90 minutes is “push the button, go to lunch,” and so on. We had tests that ran for up to 24 hours, bu…

Nobody cared if I made something that took 1 second run in 0.1 seconds, but it was a great feeling to make something that would take a month run in an hour, because that made something "impossible" possible in most contexts.

Re: Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

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Post by sdinsn »

claudiulodro wrote: post #189
sdinsn wrote: post #169

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You forgot: 1. Just never go on or support any website with a paywall No 2. 3. or 4.

Why? Would you also never buy a magazine or print newspaper? Subscriptions are the best way to have a sustainable news site that isn't an ad-infested mess.

> Would you also never buy a magazine or print newspaper?

Correct.

> news site that isn't an ad-infested mess

Thanks to uBlock, no website I go on has ads.

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