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My Resume Is Total Fiction

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Re: My Resume Is Total Fiction

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Post by dzhiurgis »

tinco wrote: post #44
dzhiurgis wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I could find a party full of female scientists - then perhaps I could enjoy it.

If you can't even enjoy yourself on a party with regular people, I doubt a party with female scientists would go very well for you. (as someone who has went to parties with female scientists..)

I live abroad and peers I have access to are working class people. There simply isn't much to talk about, just get pissed drunk/drugged.

I've recently started disconnecting them I found network of smart people to which I can enjoy conversing with.

Re: My Resume Is Total Fiction

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Post by chrisbaglieri »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #49

So, again, some 100 words about nothing in particular end up stimulating 10's of thousands of response words. Why? Maybe its like some carte blanc, where each reader sees part of themselves in the words, and they strike some inner chord that demands response. Maybe great ideas can be contained in only a few lines, distilled to some essential truth. Maybe HNers are bored, or shallow. I don't know.

Or maybe me, the author, just wanted to share a little piece of himself, and a practice he finds helpful, and it resonated with a few others out there. Not everything has to be something more than that.

Re: My Resume Is Total Fiction

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

chrisbaglieri wrote: post #52
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #49

So, again, some 100 words about nothing in particular end up stimulating 10's of thousands of response words. Why? Maybe its like some carte blanc, where each reader sees part of themselves in the words, and they strike some inner chord that demands response. Maybe great ideas can be contained in only a few lines, distilled to some essential truth. Maybe HNers are bored, or shallow. I don't know.

Or maybe me, the author, just wanted to share a little piece of himself, and a practice he finds helpful, and it resonated with a few others out there. Not everything has to be something more than that.

Sorry! Wasn't criticizing you; of course you are not responsible for the large response and #1 ranking. That's all on the readers.

Re: My Resume Is Total Fiction

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Post by dzhiurgis »

untog wrote: post #46
dzhiurgis wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I could find a party full of female scientists - then perhaps I could enjoy it.

You're right, categorising women based on what they do for a living doesn't sound very enjoyable.

Don't know what scientists you know, but most of them love what they are doing instead of doing it for a living.

Re: My Resume Is Total Fiction

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Post by fixxer »

thom wrote: post #31

I worked at an agency where it was common to practice CV-driven-development. You'd decide what bullet points you wanted on your CV at the end of a project - be they new languages, frameworks, responsibilities etc - and manipulated the project (often disastrously) to make them true.

I'm guessing this tactic was a means to an exit for individual developers looking for the door?

One of the things that bothers me about resumes that cross my desk is the emphasis on skills over projects. I blame linkedin since it allows HR (generally, not the most innovative or thoughtful people I've dealt with, especially at the banks) to half-ass their job to the Nth degree with filters begging to be reverse engineered by a job seeker.

I think there is value in building towards a goal skillset (I do the author's resume goal setting myself, actually), but I generally never share my resume and if I do, I am completely legit in what I present).

Re: My Resume Is Total Fiction

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Post by FLUX-YOU »

cubano wrote: post #45
oldspiceman wrote: post #11

I've noticed a good positive correlation between income and the level of bullshit people put on their resumes.

Some people would simply call that Sales and Marketing, which is pretty much what the OP was discussing. Of course, S&M has a place in everyone's, even engineers, lives (no pun intended). The idea of tailoring your resume to hit certain high notes that corrospond with the needs of the hiring company is nothing new, and has been promoted on job seeking sites for as long as I can remember. It's really no different then…

The fun part is when different players are playing with different rules.

"Oh, I touched Python once, better put it on my resume."

But that bullet point on the resume could indicate any level of skill. Whereas someone more modest might not put that on the resume because he only touched it. Now you're headed from salesmanship towards snake oil. It isn't lying outright, but it smells familiar.

Re: My Resume Is Total Fiction

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Post by personZ »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #49

So, again, some 100 words about nothing in particular end up stimulating 10's of thousands of response words. Why? Maybe its like some carte blanc, where each reader sees part of themselves in the words, and they strike some inner chord that demands response. Maybe great ideas can be contained in only a few lines, distilled to some essential truth. Maybe HNers are bored, or shallow. I don't know.

Maybe HNers are bored, or shallow

There are certain times of the day when thin content makes a strong showing on HN. Normally that isn't Friday @ 9am, though, so a little surprising to see this. Perhaps it appeals to the "be a better you!" noise that appears following each New Year.

As an unrelated aside, I'm currently suffering under a slow-ban, presumably imposed by dang. A slowban, for those who don't know, is when HN becomes oppressively slow. It is a comically cowardly, ignorant means of suppression, and it helps lead to an HN where a "write your goals" Facebook-style post tops HN.

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Post by [deleted] »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #49

So, again, some 100 words about nothing in particular end up stimulating 10's of thousands of response words. Why? Maybe its like some carte blanc, where each reader sees part of themselves in the words, and they strike some inner chord that demands response. Maybe great ideas can be contained in only a few lines, distilled to some essential truth. Maybe HNers are bored, or shallow. I don't know.

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JoeAltmaier wrote: post #49

So, again, some 100 words about nothing in particular end up stimulating 10's of thousands of response words. Why? Maybe its like some carte blanc, where each reader sees part of themselves in the words, and they strike some inner chord that demands response. Maybe great ideas can be contained in only a few lines, distilled to some essential truth. Maybe HNers are bored, or shallow. I don't know.

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