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Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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That’s very gracious of you. Thanks. How do HNers take advantage of your offer?

Hey sorry for the late reply - just email me at hello@rezi.io

Or you could pretend this is a forum for discussion and not yiur advertising space and answer the questions directly rather than spamming your email.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Don't lie, that just degrades signalling for everyone else.

Signaling is already shit with mighty high requirements which are BS like 'need 5 years of experience in the field' for a junior position. Everyone got bills to pay, can't blame anyone for lying. If you put ridiculously high expectations, this is what you get. Go full ham on little white lies. Exaggerate like they exaggerate about how fun the environment is to work in. If it were truly a superb place, the position wa…

The reason the requirements are so high is because everyone is lying. The solution isn't to lie more, it's to stop lying altogether and punish defectors. For example, putting people who say, "go full ham on little white lies," on a do-not-hire list.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Tragically the problem is not lack of roles, it's a lack of hiring managers able or willing to fill them. No one wants to risk a visible failure, so they take no risks at all... which leads us to the current situation of 1600 unfilled software dev roles at walmart.

UnitedHealth needs help badly, if you follow the news. They tell you when jobs are posted on their careers site. 311 USA jobs posted in the last 30 days with the word “software" in the title. For OP, they have 5 openings in Ireland, all posted since 2/12. Those are not just sitting there.

You're just listing more "openings."

"It's not what you know, it's who you know," though many hate to admit it.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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UnitedHealth needs help badly, if you follow the news. They tell you when jobs are posted on their careers site. 311 USA jobs posted in the last 30 days with the word “software" in the title. For OP, they have 5 openings in Ireland, all posted since 2/12. Those are not just sitting there.

You're just listing more "openings." "It's not what you know, it's who you know," though many hate to admit it.

I guess everyone should just give up then. Good luck.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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You're just listing more "openings." "It's not what you know, it's who you know," though many hate to admit it.

I guess everyone should just give up then. Good luck.

I never asked for job listings, I submit many every day, but thanks, I guess.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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I guess everyone should just give up then. Good luck.

I never asked for job listings, I submit many every day, but thanks, I guess.

Not applying for jobs gives you plenty of time to argue with strangers about something you claim doesn’t matter. Good luck with all that.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Hey sorry for the late reply - just email me at hello@rezi.io

Or you could pretend this is a forum for discussion and not yiur advertising space and answer the questions directly rather than spamming your email.

Im happy to talk about anything

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Don't lie, that just degrades signalling for everyone else.

Lots and lots and lots of people are already lying. Hard to compete with that. [Edit] A quant analyst working at some firm was told to steal Bernie Madoff's lunch. When he realized Bernie was 100% accurate on his predictions and it was obviously bullshit, he told his bosses, and filed four appeals with the SEC, but no one would listen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Would_Listen

I had a 21 year old neighbor who (as a research project) tailored an outlandishly fake resume for a job offer with many fake years of experience, many fake letters of recommendation and fake phone numbers from friends who would praise him into the sky. While he would have fitted perfectly (they said) he didn't get the job because the other applicant had more experience and was younger. He was baffled someone lied even more.
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