Update to the story is here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2844001
Google Please Hire Me
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Generally, I do like skill charts that look like RPG character sheets (so much so, I've been using this paradigm for my own skill profile http://udos.name ), however as you said this particular one seems indeed a bit devoid of actual information. Even if the categories were meaningful, what's the point in having a scale of 1 to 7 when the lowest outlier rating you give yourself is 4?
I just signed up for an account just so I could post how awesome that skill profile is. Some site really needs to copy this idea.
After reading this post, I decided it was a good time for an inaugural post.
Here it is. How am I doing?
Your skill profile incorporates two of my favorite things: P&P RPGs and employment.
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#103A guy tried something similar (called "Can Google Hear Me") a few years ago: http://www.cangooglehearme.com/
Aaron Stanton actually has a product, which is what he was trying to get in front of Google - www.booklamp.org
It's an interesting concept - Pandora for books. I spent some time looking at it as a potential complementary technology for a reader app I worked on a few years ago.
Fairly rudimentary algorithm at that time, but it's conceptually interesting and worth burning a couple of cycles watching the intro video.
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#104I think there is a need for a reverse job portal which is open. So candidates can post their resumes, profiles, videos etc. to this portal and also select the categories or companies for which they want to be considered. Any employer can search for the candidates on this portal and contact them. The idea is that the data is open and not in control of a job portal. There can be some security measures to keep the data…
Sounds like http://linkedin.com to me.
Or "American Idol".
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#105But was it even his idea and execution? You can't really tell that much from this video. He had others involved (for shooting at the very least) and we don't know if he edited it, wrote the script or if any of the ideas were his or a friend. Not that anything was spectacular of course. He should have at least put at the end some "credits" or even commentary on what part of it he was responsible for. The video is tryi…
He has credits of people who helped him at the bottom of his website. We live in the same city and I have a similar website out as well www[dot]hiremeaccenture[dot]com
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#106I also have a site that I am using to try and land a job. http://www.hiremeaccenture.com/
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#107In norwegian we have a word for this, 'kleint'. In danish 'kikset'. Which means a high level of embarrassing.
I think the English word would be awkward
How about cringeworthy?
Def: Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness
I could feel my toes curling at certain points. Funny, but not perhaps what was intended...
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Generally, I do like skill charts that look like RPG character sheets (so much so, I've been using this paradigm for my own skill profile http://udos.name ), however as you said this particular one seems indeed a bit devoid of actual information. Even if the categories were meaningful, what's the point in having a scale of 1 to 7 when the lowest outlier rating you give yourself is 4?
Character sheet is pure awesomeness. I realized how subjective the interview process when my last interview --- yesturday --- was entirely composed of: "From 1-10, 10 being the creator of the language, how are you with X? How about y? And Z?" This kind of online resume gets past all that kind of stuff. I see real value in being able to cleanly present this kind of high-level skillset info to employers PRE-interview.
Check out http://www.vizualize.me which is working on this
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#109My understanding (from what I've read on HN, and similar sites) - getting a Google interview isn't too hard. A PhD helps, a stunt like this helps, but you really just need to convince them that you might be useful. Getting through Google's possibly broken interview system is the difficult part. Still, this looks like more fun than writing a traditional resume.
Yeah what was running through my mind when watching was why Google? Why not something a bit more challenging? I read that they are hiring 6,000 people this year. Why not start a startup instead, and try and get into a great incubator program?
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#110Did it work?