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"CDC Cyber" made me laugh. Marketing seemed to be on point Almost 40 years later, phone numbers are on the way out, DOBs are "illegal" and github and email are more important information on a CV.
date of birth is illegal? Probably one of the more irrelevant things, as it is easily deductible from the rest of the entries.
I doubt a resume like this a would even be considered today. It's missing pretty much all the bling.
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Needless to say, I felt really embarrassed to find this out during the interview, and was baffled that the internal recruiter had even considered me.
I got the job.
Nearly 24 years with a single employer. How many programmers can claim that these days?
I think the better question is: how many employers can claim that these days? My understanding is that there was a big cultural change in theory of management during the corporate raider era of the 1980s. Before, lifetime employment was common; employee loyalty was matched by defined-benefit pensions and the implicit commitment that you'd be kept on until retirement unless you did something terrible. Corporate raider…
This is still taught today in business schools.
When you take over a company, the first thing you do is fire a bunch of people. The market sees it as cutting costs, so the stock goes up.
It doesn’t matter who the people were or how essential to the company they were. This is simply a fundamental part of the theory of “business” as taught in top management courses.
The tiny (usually temporary) stock boost secures your employment for the the next six months. This buys you time to figure out how to run/fix the company.
One Page resume was still the style in 1980, that's cool. Really well written cover letter as well, hard to see that come by these days.
I guess she doesn’t think that when reviewing 100 applications a screener might not want to constantly scroll.
Your dad was an American hero, please thank him for all his hard work on my behalf. Men like him built this country by living their lives and raising their children. I'm sure he wasn't perfect, but he's still your dad and I'm sorry you've moved him to a home. Please take good care of him.
Looks like a simpler time. You just say what you did. No need to BS it up to sound like you are gods gift to programming. And once you get the job probably no logging every second of your time.
While simpler times are attractive, I'm glad we have so much choice.
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There was way less competition, though
Yes but higher signal to noise ratio back then and programming and computer science were not as much a commodity degree. Now there are so many people on the internet and playing chameleon ;) You had to seek out jobs in newspaper listings in local or national newspapers (international too). I would get people applying for jobs back in early 90s who thought that having a modem at home and having read one programming bo…
Nearly 24 years with a single employer. How many programmers can claim that these days?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Christensen (inventor of the BBS and author of xmodem) is one, at 44 years for IBM. I knew a very small numbers of career Allstate folks at over 40 years.