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Nirvikalpa posted:If I'm going to be working a job that's designed to be completely remote, what should I put for the location section on my resume? Should I just leave it blank? I still put my city, but I also have a little section on my resume saying that I have a dedicated home office space and FTTP internet. I live somewhere regional where internet can be a bit dodgy, so I include it so any remote roles I apply for don't screen me out due to my location. It's probably not needed but it can't hurt.
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e: got the job. 16% raise over what I was making before even factoring in overtime. Scrubbing the rest just in case
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Aug 27, 2021 16:34
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I think I wasn't being clear, sorry! On my resume I have something like [Organization] [City] For my new remote job, when I add it to my resume, should it be? [Organization] [My current city] [Organization] [Remote] [Organization] Blank
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Aug 27, 2021 20:40
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Nirvikalpa posted:I think I wasn't being clear, sorry! On my resume I have something like It doesnt matter what city your prev jobs was in, only your current city. You don't need to indicate if a job was remote, in fact I'd suggest leaving it off. Oxxidation posted:e: got the job. 16% raise over what I was making before even factoring in overtime. Scrubbing the rest just in case Nice! W2G!
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Aug 28, 2021 00:12
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Tomorrow I'm interviewing for a management job in a position that's had 4 different managers in 5 years (and the only reason one of them was there for more than one year was due to over a year of maternity leave). The two people interviewing me are basically only going to care about one thing and one thing only: am I going to do their jobs for them (instead of the position I'm actually interviewing for). Most the other previous managers ended up doing those two's jobs and rapidly chose to leave. So how do I get across that if I get the position I will be doing that job, and not the job above that they should be doing? Without totally ruining my chances, I mean...
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Aug 30, 2021 17:13
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You seem to have a lot of information and know it's a loser. So don't take the job? Or take it for your resume and immediately start looking? I don't think you're going to succeed in redefining that setup unless you've got some unique advantage none of your predecessors had.
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Aug 30, 2021 17:16
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Xguard86 posted:You seem to have a lot of information and know it's a loser. Agree with this here. Sounds like this is a sinking ship and if their bosses don't care (seems they don't) then you are not going to change anything.
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Aug 30, 2021 17:53
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That's an accurate assessment. One of the interviewers handed in his own notice last week, so he's off the ship at least. At least by going for the job I'd have better control over the situations (many of which are there due to the other interviewer - though they mean well). Maybe I should just go for it for the CV boost. Ah well, worst case I just don't take the job if I do get offered!
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Aug 30, 2021 18:00
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Let me flip it another way: what are you going to get out of this job? It's it a career booster or are you trying to avoid homelessness? Knowing what you want out of it helps because right now I don't see why you'd want a job like this. I mean, keep in mind all this stuff is what's coming through their best filter. Jobs are always worse than they seem in an interview.
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Aug 30, 2021 18:00
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Debating pinging an internal recruiter about what’s going on with the status of my application, it has been a week since my last interview of the 2nd round loop. I know they had other candidates but not how many. At this point I just want to find out one way or the other (entire process has been almost 2 months now). The interviews went really well I felt but it would really be if there was a stronger candidate experience wise and personality fit at this point I would think. Just a quick “hey just checking in, how goes with the process?” Email a good idea at this point?
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Aug 30, 2021 18:07
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Lockback posted:Let me flip it another way: what are you going to get out of this job? It's it a career booster or are you trying to avoid homelessness? Knowing what you want out of it helps because right now I don't see why you'd want a job like this. this is a good post
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Aug 30, 2021 18:31
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Lockback posted:Let me flip it another way: what are you going to get out of this job? It's it a career booster or are you trying to avoid homelessness? Knowing what you want out of it helps because right now I don't see why you'd want a job like this. +1 priznat posted:Debating pinging an internal recruiter about what’s going on with the status of my application, it has been a week since my last interview of the 2nd round loop. I know they had other candidates but not how many. At this point I just want to find out one way or the other (entire process has been almost 2 months now). A week isn't that long. If you dont have other interviews closing then I'd wait 2 weeks and instead try to get some other offers or interviews in as a BATNA/backup if possible.
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Aug 30, 2021 18:41
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CarForumPoster posted:+1 Good call, I do have a couple other applications out and another job interview session that finished the day after this one, so hopefully have some options! Plus overall not desperate to move as current job is stable (just a lot of people are leaving and it is getting a bit worrying)
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Aug 30, 2021 18:45
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priznat posted:Good call, I do have a couple other applications out and another job interview session that finished the day after this one, so hopefully have some options! Plus overall not desperate to move as current job is stable (just a lot of people are leaving and it is getting a bit worrying) 👍np. Just as an example, I'd be an essential person at my tiny company to an offer. I am on vacation today, tomorrow, Friday and all next week. Except for a computer toucher, everyone can wait until I get back. Computer touchers you can't wait 2 weeks on and be highly competitive.
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Aug 30, 2021 19:07
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Lol like 3 years ago we passed around this presentation about software developers being the new oil. For laughs and eye rolls. This was at a software company, just like one not that high on it's own farts. Well here we are in 2021 and uhmm yah. gently caress.
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Aug 30, 2021 19:15
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Big ask but does anyone here have experience with academic staff or public museum resumes (or just experience with resumes in general) and could take a quick look at mine? I'd post it but it would be hard to anonymize and I really cant afford to link myself to SA. Desperately need to get out of my helljob. Thanks so much! An a more general note are there good go-to resume format templates people use? I've looked around but didn't have much luck.
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Aug 30, 2021 20:55
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Kind of a weird thing, I had interviewed with aws for a HW development job that was basically root causing issues on the systems - something I have had a lot of experience with. It was the STAR interview stuff and I went thru several of the issues I’d dealt with and ensuring to talk about it from the various stages.. They got back to me and they’re not continuing with the process (which is fine) but they wanted me to interview for a software development position, something I have no real experience in doing and have nothing like that on my resume apart from some low level diagnostic and scripting stuff. Is that normal? I said no that’s alright thanks. I had my concerns both with the work I’d be doing not being my thing (it didn’t really line up with the job posting) and the company as a whole so I was really just doing it out of curiosity.
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Aug 31, 2021 23:34
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If I'm looking for a remote job, is it worth applying for jobs in other cities if they don't say remote? I see plenty of job posting that will list cities in six different states, but they don't explicitly say remote/telecommute.
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Aug 31, 2021 23:55
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Pekinduck posted:Big ask but does anyone here have experience with academic staff or public museum resumes (or just experience with resumes in general) and could take a quick look at mine? I'd post it but it would be hard to anonymize and I really cant afford to link myself to SA. Desperately need to get out of my helljob. Thanks so much! I have experience with this. What type of position are you applying for - a curator? A docent? What type of museum? Is this a grant reliant position? A foundation? Are you applying work at a university? Public? Private? Depending on the answer it could be what you need is a CV, not a resume. (Have you worked in a museum before? Because I can tell you museums are notoriously bad places to work, and every person I know who has worked in one has either transitioned into real academia or into a new field.)
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Sep 1, 2021 00:11
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What is this bs? I have to take a CCAT test for a job?
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priznat posted:Kind of a weird thing, I had interviewed with aws for a HW development job that was basically root causing issues on the systems - something I have had a lot of experience with. It was the STAR interview stuff and I went thru several of the issues I’d dealt with and ensuring to talk about it from the various stages.. Can you send them my way?  I don't have a lot of AWS street cred yet but it's on my list, and when I'm in the market next I will definitely be doing the job app rounds with them.Everybody and their mother is doing cloud certs right now so I hope the market is not saturated / back to equilibrium by the time I get off my butt.
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Upgrade posted:I have experience with this. Curator or curators' assistant type jobs, zoological. I've sort of specialized in mammal/bird taxidermy. I don't have a specific position in mind, I've been applying to whatever comes up but would prefer something permanent. So far I have only needed a resume but a CV might be a good idea. Upgrade posted:(Have you worked in a museum before? Seven years to the present. Upgrade posted:Because I can tell you museums are notoriously bad places to work Ohhhhhhhhhhh I'm well aware, sweet mother of gently caress I'm aware. Thanks for warning the potentially inexperienced though. Do you have PMs? Really appreciate any advice.
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Sep 1, 2021 04:38
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Pekinduck posted:Curator or curators' assistant type jobs, zoological. I've sort of specialized in mammal/bird taxidermy. I don't have a specific position in mind, I've been applying to whatever comes up but would prefer something permanent. So far I have only needed a resume but a CV might be a good idea. Why are museums so bad to work for?
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Pillowpants posted:Why are museums so bad to work for? The pay is terrible, 95% of museums are one bad fundraising quarter away from closing their doors (and the other 5% are impossible to get jobs in because there are a ton of wealthy retired people who are happy to do the work for free because they love art and history!), everyone is overeducated, etc. - its like a terrible high school where you make $12/hr despite having an MA and 175k in debt. I do have PMs!
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Pillowpants posted:What is this bs? I have to take a CCAT test for a job?  ya sometimes! I had to take one once so far. It was a joke and was apparently useless (as well as their entire interview process) since an incredibly unqualified person was hired for our team.
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Deadite posted:If I'm looking for a remote job, is it worth applying for jobs in other cities if they don't say remote? I see plenty of job posting that will list cities in six different states, but they don't explicitly say remote/telecommute. You could check if any other job listings for the company are remote. That would at least suggest remote is acceptable in the company. I explicitly looked for positions that were remote, companies that embraced remote, or companies where some jobs were listed as remote. In the last case I was pretty up front on any initial phone screen to confirm remote was cool. One company very specifically said "No, but we can't find anyone qualified, we might change the requirements, and we'll put you on the list".
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I had 6 hours of interviews yesterday at a company with like 6 different people and 4 different assessments and the branch manager told me "We should have an offer out by Friday" so I guess I have the job if I want it? It was a very weird experience since I haven't done a "real" interview in close to 20 years.
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Sep 1, 2021 16:54
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He didn't say there would be an offer out to you by Friday, right?
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Sep 1, 2021 17:02
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Eric the Mauve posted:He didn't say there would be an offer out to you by Friday, right? He did actually. He said "Here's what's gonna happen, I'm gonna have HR check the references and due diligence and then we should have an offer out to you by Friday".
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Sep 1, 2021 17:06
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In that case, he didn't specify WHICH Friday. Could be in a few days. Could be four Friday's from now
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Deadite posted:If I'm looking for a remote job, is it worth applying for jobs in other cities if they don't say remote? I see plenty of job posting that will list cities in six different states, but they don't explicitly say remote/telecommute. I mean, I think most of the time if it doesn't say remote or "USA" it means it's not but applying is usually pretty easy. Just don't hide that you're looking for a remote role.
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Interview the other day went pretty well, I imagine if I get offered the promotion I'll be back asking about tips for negotiating a better wage in a few days as I'm sure they'll try to lowball me. The usual 5 year question came up and, in a job that has seen managers come and go regularly, knowing my interviewer, the worst possible answer I could have given would have been to say that I plan to stay in the position long term and give the lab some stability. Instead I suggested some other higher-up or cross-functional roles that I could see myself moving into in a nonspecific amount of time, and they loved that. Can't be seen to be stagnant.
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Is it pretty normal for large companies (FAANG, etc) to have their interview "loop" and if you are not selected for that particular one it carries over to other positions with the company? I just had an incredibly precursory chat with the hiring manager for another job with the same organization and it sounds like they are going to send out an offer and it's weird. I was expecting to get a technical interview and it felt really weird because I was going through some details on what I've done but it seemed very unnecessary. Well we'll see what the offer is like at least.
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Yeah large places with steady growth and strong balance sheets will often just hire generically if they like the candidate or pass your app around to everyone once you've cleared whatever criteria they set.
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The Linkedin thread is super dead, so I was wondering if anyone here knew. Is it possible to block certain companies from showing up in job results? In my industry there are at least a couple companies that are just shy of scams that plaster their jobs all over every single region, sometimes multiple times, and since I'm looking for remote jobs I see every single instance of them. I tend to just scroll by but if it's possible to blacklist them then that saves a bit of time.
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Lockback posted:helpful words CarForumPoster posted:helpful words If you two are still around, I'm back with a second draft. Thanks an huge amount for these extremely helpful words. I've had to readjust how titles and chronology are displayed a little, hopefully it's not too confusing. My goals were to show big wins per company right at the top, while also showing a progression of roles and projects like a bunch of the feedback from you guys. Super open to anyone hopping in with more feedback on this! https://i.imgur.com/XT9jz54.png
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Phraggah posted:If you two are still around, I'm back with a second draft. Thanks an huge amount for these extremely helpful words. "Worked with business stakeholders to define requirements outside the deeply technical" what does the italicized part mean? Don't say "Worked frequently with blah" say "Role required blah" or something more assertive. "Successfully launched the an addition to our backend that added support for"....is a lot of words. "Launched backend support of.." is better. Actually that whole section is kind of word salad. Don't say "Some JS", its either Javascript or it's not. "Lead to rethinking of company workflow" sounds weird and weasel-wordy. "Improvements deployed company-wide"? maybe? For Key Skills don't say "Some PHP". If you can answer PHP questions list it. If you can't remove it. What's your BA in? It is pretty glaring that you don't mention. I'd usually lean toward including it. It's better for sure though. I think it flowed reasonably well. What job are you looking for next?
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Phraggah posted:I'm back with a second draft. Reiterating that your resume is decent, but optimization might get you a better BATNA. Quick thoughts: -Put months on your resume unless you have 6+ month gaps due to being fired. -your first bullet doesn’t lead on the strongest point. The strongest point is the one with the most business impact. Idk the business impact of “libraries and unit test frameworks” and if a half-dozen of them is any good. -“outside the deeply technical” is unclear. Suggest something like: “Worked with business stakeholders to break down business needs into technical and functional requirements.” -you make a mistake I make often, burying the lead. Instead say: “I often bury the lead.” An example of this is adding regional support. Internationalization is a critical growth tactic, so lead with the internationalization, not with backend services. -your keyword stuffing is good and the way it’s present seems credible -you seem like a competent computer toucher with EHR experience which is impossible. Maybe why you don’t do that anymore.
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Lockback posted:For Key Skills don't say "Some PHP". If you can answer PHP questions list it. If you can't remove it. I kinda like that they’re honest about it, it gives credibility to the other things. If I was hiring for PHP I’d think maybe not but for the other stuff, I’d believe them more. This might be a hot take tho. Lockback posted:What's your BA in? It is pretty glaring that you don't mention. I'd usually lean toward including it. Yea agree
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CarForumPoster posted:I kinda like that they’re honest about it, it gives credibility to the other things. If I was hiring for PHP I’d think maybe not but for the other stuff, I’d believe them more. This might be a hot take tho. I like mentioning it in descriptions but not in "Key Skills". Or have a section for skills that you have exposure to but not proficiency, though I think he might be beyond that. That might be the kind of thing where it's a split if hiring managers like to see it or not. It's just 1 so its probably fine, and you're right it does prop up everything else a bit. I've seen resumes where the skill section is a bunch of "Some of this" "exposure to that" "medium proficiency this", and that just blows. Also v.good call on not burying the lede. I 100% do that as well, and a little reorganization would go a long way to making it pop.
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