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The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume

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Re: The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume

#11

Post by simoncion »

grayfox wrote: post #5

A dude from Compose here, I'm currently helping out with hiring. If you'd like to know more about the process described in the article, we've recently blogged about it: https://www.compose.io/articles/compose-hiring-scaling-to-10... We have a bunch of postings up right now for those of you who are looking to give something like this a try (you may have seen us looking in the latest Who's Hiring): https://compose.io/j…

> https://compose.io/jobs

Typo:

"Our two main offices are located in San Fransisco, California..."

should be: "...San Francisco..."

Also, why does your map show SM, CA, rather than SF, CA? Did you move and not yet update the map?

Re: The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume

#12

Post by ska »

kylec wrote: post #10
salmonet wrote: post #4

Resumes, interviews, and referrals disproportionately favor the BSers, conversationalists, and the well-connected. No surprise that employers have buyers remorse. For how much emphasis companies put on hiring, I'm surprised there aren't better ways to identify diamonds in the rough.

Diamonds-in-the-rough are also a tremendous value. It's very cheap to hire someone that can't (or doesn't think that they can) get a job elsewhere. It really is surprising that more effort isn't spent trying to identify and hire them.

This is only true if you both have the capability and choose to dedicate the resources to skill development. Many places either can not or choose not do this well.

Re: The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume

#13

Post by grayfox »

simoncion wrote: post #11
grayfox wrote: post #5

A dude from Compose here, I'm currently helping out with hiring. If you'd like to know more about the process described in the article, we've recently blogged about it: https://www.compose.io/articles/compose-hiring-scaling-to-10... We have a bunch of postings up right now for those of you who are looking to give something like this a try (you may have seen us looking in the latest Who's Hiring): https://compose.io/j…

> https://compose.io/jobs Typo: "Our two main offices are located in San Fransisco, California..." should be: "...San Francisco..." Also, why does your map show SM, CA, rather than SF, CA? Did you move and not yet update the map?

You're correct! We recently moved out of the San Mateo office (sad) but still have space within San Fransisco.

We need to update the map...

Thanks for pointing that out.

Re: The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume

#14

Post by lifeisstillgood »

grayfox wrote: post #13
simoncion wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> https://compose.io/jobs Typo: "Our two main offices are located in San Fransisco, California..." should be: "...San Francisco..." Also, why does your map show SM, CA, rather than SF, CA? Did you move and not yet update the map?

You're correct! We recently moved out of the San Mateo office (sad) but still have space within San Fransisco. We need to update the map... Thanks for pointing that out.

The grandparent point is the mis spelling of Fran-s-isco I believe, which as you repeat it here might be the weirdest Spellchecker bug for a while :/)

Re: The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume

#15

Post by simoncion »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #14
grayfox wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're correct! We recently moved out of the San Mateo office (sad) but still have space within San Fransisco. We need to update the map... Thanks for pointing that out.

The grandparent point is the mis spelling of Fran-s-isco I believe, which as you repeat it here might be the weirdest Spellchecker bug for a while :/)

> The grandparent point is the mis spelling of [Francisco as] Fran-s-isco I believe...

Yes, exactly.

Re: The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume

#16

Post by grayfox »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #14
grayfox wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're correct! We recently moved out of the San Mateo office (sad) but still have space within San Fransisco. We need to update the map... Thanks for pointing that out.

The grandparent point is the mis spelling of Fran-s-isco I believe, which as you repeat it here might be the weirdest Spellchecker bug for a while :/)

Indeed!

Also, I believe I've been ousted as a Canadian.

... Fixed this... :)

Re: The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume

#17

Post by PhasmaFelis »

I'm always torn between appreciating guys like this for their good advice, and wanting to scream because the entire rest of the industry still hasn't twigged to this gobsmackingly "water-is-wet" obvious fact. How can so many smart people be so deeply, enduringly stupid?

Re: The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume

#18

Post by to3m »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #14
grayfox wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're correct! We recently moved out of the San Mateo office (sad) but still have space within San Fransisco. We need to update the map... Thanks for pointing that out.

The grandparent point is the mis spelling of Fran-s-isco I believe, which as you repeat it here might be the weirdest Spellchecker bug for a while :/)

The HN text box defeats at least Firefox's spell checking.

Saf Farsisco. Falaffel. Hemmoridge. Antidisistablishmintirinismisms. Firifofxofox doesn't appear to caer! This whole comment passes with flying colours.

Re: The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume

#19

Post by cubano »

kylec wrote: post #10
salmonet wrote: post #4

Resumes, interviews, and referrals disproportionately favor the BSers, conversationalists, and the well-connected. No surprise that employers have buyers remorse. For how much emphasis companies put on hiring, I'm surprised there aren't better ways to identify diamonds in the rough.

Diamonds-in-the-rough are also a tremendous value. It's very cheap to hire someone that can't (or doesn't think that they can) get a job elsewhere. It really is surprising that more effort isn't spent trying to identify and hire them.

So isn't that just really a form of exploitation of someone's low self esteem, background, or career ignorance?

Re: The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume

#20

Post by simoncion »

to3m wrote: post #18
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The grandparent point is the mis spelling of Fran-s-isco I believe, which as you repeat it here might be the weirdest Spellchecker bug for a while :/)

The HN text box defeats at least Firefox's spell checking. Saf Farsisco. Falaffel. Hemmoridge. Antidisistablishmintirinismisms. Firifofxofox doesn't appear to caer! This whole comment passes with flying colours.

> The HN text box defeats at least Firefox's spell checking.

Can't repro. Firefox 41 on Gentoo Linux.

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