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On slide 16: Shows you actually care about programming I have yet to meet an employer that is actually looking for this. Caring about programming only gets in the way of the atrocities my employer needs me to commit to make things work. Now. One of the differences between academia & real life, I guess.
On slide 16: Shows you actually care about programming I have yet to meet an employer that is actually looking for this. Caring about programming only gets in the way of the atrocities my employer needs me to commit to make things work. Now. One of the differences between academia & real life, I guess.
Behind a corporate firewall, so I cannot read it. One thing I have been noticing lately with HR drones, is that unless you have stated specifically that you worked in technology X on a project at work, it doesn't matter how many off work projects you might have done in the said technology. Even if there are other people using the said projects. They just go top to bottom looking for keywords.
Speaking as a hiring manager this feels perfectly reasonable so I'd be interested to know why people might think it isn't. I write a job spec which lists what we're looking for which is advertised and passed to recruiters - if you're interested in the job you've almost certainly seen that. Assuming you do have the experience, using the spec you should be able to tweak your CV in about 5 minutes to highlight the key t…
Am I doing something wrong or is this website horribly non-functional, after 20ish seconds it just goes blank and tries to start loading a new page, if you try and download the slides it just pops up a blank modal.
I saw this problem two weeks ago, tweeted about it but never heard from them https://twitter.com/NicolaeNMV/status/527086957059637248 With AdBlock it's working perfectly. I also saw requests to LinkedIn going from SlideShare, I wonder why.. https://twitter.com/NicolaeNMV/status/527092523987402752
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spoiler: he advises to just put the keywords, to please every layer in the hiring process. This is a quite conservative document: your CV is a little piece of shit in the stack, people have better stuff to do than read your freaking CV, you stupid millennial, they hate recruiting and they are absolutely not willing to spend any time on it, and there are millions other people waiting for your job, so you'd better get…
I'd be terrified of anywhere that didn't put their best people forward for interviews. Two reasons: 1) Hiring someone is a big deal. You want the people best placed to judge whether they're right involved. 2) You're selling the company to someone who may/will have other choices. Put the people forward who are going to do the best job of that. Point 2 is important. I have no interest in candidates who do the whole "yo…
'sounds familiar?
Showing respect is not having someone who have no clue in JS libraries filtering CVs for JS positions, certainly not. They'll settle for famous education places. The candidate write without too many typos and show proper development skills and the hiring chain show proper hiring skills and get the hiring process as least stupid as possible. That's what I would call respect from both parties.
Having a clueless HR person initially filtering the CVs for keywords in 15s is not showing respect. They'll have their role later, in managing the vacations, doing the pay stubs, calling some previous places for feedback, bugging the newly hired with red tape and managing the retirement plan, places where they make a difference.
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I don't have all these different kinds of clothing. (And no I don't want to own them either). Am I the only one who thinks this game should be played the other way around? If a company needs my services, they should impress me. I am not a model and I am sure as hell not a wage slave. I don't do CVs, and I sure as hell don't talk to HR. I am performing a necessary duty, if I can fill my role then my other traits will…
That really depends on the hiring environment you are working in. Right now, in most of the tech centers around, it is an employees market. This is not always true and it can be different for different tech centers, technologies, and employees. So sure, while this is working for you right now, keep it in mind in the future when this bubble bursts. I do find it interesting that an adult with professional career in the…
It's just that I am not willing to compromise on my interpretation of "business attire". I consider it quite offensive to openly criticize based on looks. If anybody would consider my jeans unfitting then that's their problem as I have a very good reason to wear jeans (exclusively). I wear clothes because I like them and I consider them fitting.
On weddings and funerals: Depends on the wedding or funeral, chances are I wont be going to "suit-weddings" and on funerals I reckon the dead person respected me well enough to trust my choice of attire.
> So sure, while this is working for you right now, keep it in mind in the future when this bubble bursts.
I am not in a bubble. :) I have chosen a profession which is unlikely to die off very soon, I invested a lot into being good in my profession and when my industry is no longer my market then I am in the wrong industry.
Edit: For context, I am not an employee, I am a consultant. I don't have a boss, I only have customers. I was an employee before and I didn't like it.
"...did you wear a suit" I guess it might depend on the industry, but at most interviews I have done, the expectation has been to just wear jeans and whatever. I usually go with jeans and a polo shirt for safety.
Here are my basic rules on Interview dressing:
1 When in doubt, wear a suit. For all lifes clothing decisions, better to be over, than under dressed 2 Ask a recruiter whats appropriate, if you are dealing with one. 3 Whatever you wear, make sure it looks nice (no stains, ironed, fits well,etc)
How someone is dressed is a very small part of hiring (in the tech world, less so for other professions), but it does speak to attention to detail, and how they see themselves. Given two equally skilled candidates the one who presents themselves best (attire wise) is going to get the nod.
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It's not a myth, at least not in most cases. If I take you on I want some indication that you're going to stay around long enough for the investment we're going to make in you to be worthwhile. We'll normally pay a recruitment fee and then we'll pay you while you're learning about our product, our industry, our processes and the specific technologies you haven't worked with that we use, and we'll be paying our existi…
Most people jump when the company is not paying market price so they switch. I move very fast from companies that don't keep up with pay. I stay at companies with regular pay rises. I've had both. So in my mind it means that companies concerned with job hopping, are really hoping to keep your pay down. It's an early warning .
I accept people leave when their salary diverges more than a certain amount from the market rate but that would normally - even in a good market - take time.
Personally I wouldn't expect a major pay rise within the first 12 months of a job (if you do then you've probably not negotiated your starting salary properly). Add to that a couple of months after that to find another job and a month notice and the shortest stint relating to poor pay I'd expect is about 15 months. If you're staying 15 months or so in places which are bad payers and a few years in places which are good then your average is probably going to be 2-3 years. To me at least that's not a problematic amount of time (particularly not if you've shown you can stick at least place for 3 years or so because that says to me you're not inherently disloyal).
So short stints don't say anything, at least not much, about money when I read a CV.
On slide 16: Shows you actually care about programming I have yet to meet an employer that is actually looking for this. Caring about programming only gets in the way of the atrocities my employer needs me to commit to make things work. Now. One of the differences between academia & real life, I guess.
Yes, I put a link to my Github on my cv, and it was never mentionned - my Github doesn't have anything really interesting though.
"...did you wear a suit" I guess it might depend on the industry, but at most interviews I have done, the expectation has been to just wear jeans and whatever. I usually go with jeans and a polo shirt for safety.
It may seem like you were dressed OK, but do you really know? Does anybody ever say "we can't hire that guy, he dressed up?"
It's come up a few times on HN that some companies do do this. They are widely regarded as completely nuts.