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Covok posted:Okay, I am not trying to spam but I just think this is funny. I applied to a controller position for 80k at a local ice plant and they called me 5 minutes after I submitted my resume to setup an interview. Nice! I know two controllers who work at ~120 and ~250 employee regular rear end companies. Both seem to work 9-5 except for rare occasions.
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CarForumPoster posted:Nice! I know two controllers who work at ~120 and ~250 employee regular rear end companies. Both seem to work 9-5 except for rare occasions. Yeah controller seems to be a great place to go for finance / tax people who are done with CPA firms. Lower number of hours with higher average pay, I can’t see what’s not to like. You just need more qualifications.
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I am hiring again, this time for a FT remote paralegal. Req went up late Friday, 130 applicants by Monday. Reviewed 130 resumes in 3 hours, rejecting half and sending a filtering question to the other half. The ones who get it right, go to a phone interview. If you're a CS degree holding engineer or a lawyer skilled in a particular area, your resume formatting is not insanely important. If you are working a job that doesnt have a very high barrier to entry, it is VERY important your resume be 1-2 pages, easy to scan, and scannable by LinkedIn/Indeed/other ATSes. Each of those resumes got maybe 15-25 seconds of my time. The 7 page one? Yea, nah, reject.
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I have an interview sometime this week (still trying to iron out when, etc) and the recruiter said they can’t do after 4pm. Problem is, my schedule is 6:30am to 3:00pm, with an hour commute that will throw a wrench in any interview at 4:00pm. Ironically, the hourlong commute is why I applied for this job, which will be closer to my home. While I work in shorts and a T-shirt in a hangar environment and it would likely be the same in this new job, having just gotten home with no time to change into something nicer kind of puts a damper on the whole affair. I also can’t imagine it is advisable to take the interview from my truck on my hourlong commute, in a T-shirt bearing the logo of my current employer while being frustrated with traffic and rear end in a top hat drivers. Do I take the interview on a break and just go with what I’m wearing? Do I take PTO and just do it then? My only problem taking PTO is Paycom apparently doesn’t allow me to take just an hour or two of PTO, instead forcing me to take 8 hours or none at all. I really want the interview if only because this company is at an airport much closer to me and pays better, and I want to find out more so my wife and I can make a more informed decision regarding whether or not to take the job should I get an offer.
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This question came up before and the answer Inreally liked was to see if there is a dry cleaner near either where you work or near where you're interviewing where you can drop off interview clothes, then pick them up freshly cleaned to put on for the interview. But yes it sounds like you will have to take a PTO day to take this interview, in the circumstances.
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Eric the Mauve posted:This question came up before and the answer Inreally liked was to see if there is a dry cleaner near either where you work or near where you're interviewing where you can drop off interview clothes, then pick them up freshly cleaned to put on for the interview. Weirdly enough, I did my interview for my current job in a suit and tie, and the interviewer (who turned out to be my supervisor) didn’t go on camera. I was then told by HR later that the dress code for the first-day orientation was business casual—for a mechanic. I showed up and the other two new guys were wearing dickies work stuff. My supervisor made light of this and told me to show up tomorrow dressed in “real clothes” that I “won’t give a poo poo about.” He then said he saw me on video in a suit and tie and “decided to go off camera because gently caress that.” I still barely know what to wear to an interview for jobs in my field, where professionalism plays a lagging second to, “are you certified to perform this job and all the duties described, and are you at least not a total idiot?”
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Can you ask the recruiter if it has to be video? You could even mention that you’re getting off work at that time etc., doesn’t seem like an uncommon concern for HR people to accommodate especially for mechanics. Out of curiosity what type of equipment do you wrench on? I’m on the lookout if there is an A&P nerd thread somewhere that you know about.
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Inner Light posted:Can you ask the recruiter if it has to be video? You could even mention that you’re getting off work at that time etc., doesn’t seem like an uncommon concern for HR people to accommodate especially for mechanics. There isn’t, just an aviation mega thread and a discord channel. I’d be happy to start one, though I’m sure it’d be precious few people 🙂 As to equipment, right now I wrench on the Pilatus PC-12 45/47. It can be in-person, but gently caress scrambling to change clothes. I still wouldn’t make it in time, either. They are in EST time zone and I’m in central, meaning that they have to schedule no later than 3pm my time, and that’s when I get off work.
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I wonder if I am shooting myself in the foot. I am interviewing to so many places that I can't actually do interview times midday. I push them all after work. I can't take that many days off. And I think a lot of people think I'm set up for remote work or something. In actuality, my job never allowed it so these midday affairs are not easily accomdated for me, which I think makes me less competitive. I don’t think people get my boss refused to allow for temote work and so I never set anything up to accommodate for it. It feels like a lot of jobs expect me to have like hyper flexible midday hours for interviews but that's utterly unrealistic. So, I made it kind of weeding process. If they can't understand this, then why bother dealing with them?
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Covok posted:I wonder if I am shooting myself in the foot. I am interviewing to so many places that I can't actually do interview times midday. I push them all after work. I can't take that many days off. And I think a lot of people think I'm set up for remote work or something. In actuality, my job never allowed it so these midday affairs are not easily accomdated for me, which I think makes me less competitive. I don’t think people get my boss refused to allow for temote work and so I never set anything up to accommodate for it. It feels like a lot of jobs expect me to have like hyper flexible midday hours for interviews but that's utterly unrealistic. So, I made it kind of weeding process. If they can't understand this, then why bother dealing with them? Has enough candidates that they don't bother with people who can't meet during normal business hours seems like a poor filtering criteria to me. I like to think we're a pretty good place to work for. I've got a job req that has 225 applicants in <1 week. No way I'd take an outside of working hours interview for that. Might we miss a good candidate? Maybe.
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CarForumPoster posted:Has enough candidates that they don't bother with people who can't meet during normal business hours seems like a poor filtering criteria to me. I get that and I've even been on the otherside but I can't just keep leaving early or coming in late twice to three times a week for multiple weeks.
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Covok posted:I get that and I've even been on the otherside but I can't just keep leaving early or coming in late twice to three times a week for multiple weeks. Same—I get paid hourly, and unless I can afford to take PTO (which I can’t because our PTO accrual is poo poo), I ain’t making money for half a day.
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Covok posted:I get that and I've even been on the otherside but I can't just keep leaving early or coming in late twice to three times a week for multiple weeks. Be more selective on who you interview in person with? Can you do phone screens from work? If so you should be able to restrict who you do a final interview for. But yeah, I mean I might make an occasional exception and do a late interview, but not consistently. Though if they are scheduling you I don't think their holding it against you.
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Lockback posted:Be more selective on who you interview in person with? Can you do phone screens from work? If so you should be able to restrict who you do a final interview for. These are phone and video interviews for the record. I do think I also have trouble with how quick the time between the time request and the interview tends to be. I haven't gotten any in person requests yet. As for phonescreen at work, I have been told by my coworker they can here me through the wall so I would have to leave the office. Covok fucked around with this message at 01:29 on May 19, 2022 |
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I would schedule phone screens around breaks/lunch and so them then. "Is there a time around noon?" Is pretty reasonable.
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Oh my loving god, companies that want references before even seeing a loving resume. Why don't you read the goddamn resume first before you force me to waste other people's time? In this case it wasn't the recruiter's fault; they just are doing what the dumbfucks wanted. Putting that prospect right into the trash; if that's how they treat candidates, there is no way they'll be respectful of my time as an employee.
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I am trying to update my resume for the first time in quite awhile. Quick background and context: In 2015, I began remote work at a new employer ("Moderately Sized Company, Ltd.") and my job title was "Benefits Administrator". I was on a very small team -- 2 at first, then later just me. About a year and a half after that, my company was acquired by "Global Behemoth Corporation, Inc." and I eventually transitioned to the new company with a new title ("Benefits Solutions Specialist"). I was working on a team of six people and remained a remote employee. My duties were largely the same before and after the merger, I just worked with different people, on different projects, but using effectively the same skills, materials, equipment, etc. I have continued to work at "Global Behemoth Corporation, Inc." and this year my title was "upgraded" if you will to "Senior Benefits Solutions Specialist" -- nothing changed at all after that happened, it was mostly just a "promotion" of sorts but without any salary increase. My question is -- how do I consolidate all of this, namely the change in employer and various titles, in my resume? For all intents and purposes, my work really hasn't changed, but my employer has changed due to the acquisition. As it has been nearly 7 years now, I would want to try to make it clear in my resume that I didn't leave the first company after a year, that instead the company was acquired. Further, I am also seeking to clarify how I should list my titles with the new company, since as I said above my job duties were not different before or after the title change. I assume I don't list it as my sole job title with the company since it is not the title I had when I first joined them, but at the same time I don't think I can dedicate a "section" of my work experience to the new title because there isn't anything distinct about the work I've had with the new title that makes it separate from the previous title. Breakdown of the chronology here: Benefits Administrator at Moderately Sized Company, Ltd. 2015 - 2016 (Moderately Sized Company, Ltd. acquired by Global Behemoth Corporation, Inc. in 2016) Benefits Solutions Specialist at Global Behemoth Corporation, Inc. 2016 - 2022 ("promotion" i.e. title change in 2022) Senior Benefits Solutions Specialist at Global Behemoth Corporation, Inc. 2022 - present Do I list all of these in individual entries in the "Experience" section? All in one and just note the chronology? Something else?
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I would do something like this: Indicating that the change in employer was through an acquisition and not jumping ship. With regards to titles, I would encourage you to remember that titles are made up and resumes are advertising documents and you are the product. It is your job to convey to your prospective employers what you did in a punchy and effective manner - and if that requires massaging titles, exactly zero people who matter will care that you have done so. And then all of your bullets would go underneath that one monolithic entry indicating a tenure and promotion VVV That's also good. I might like it better.
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Hell, I'd just list it as Senior Benefits Specialist, Moderately Sized Company/Global Behemoth Corporation (2015-present) and be done with it.
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That makes sense. Thank you.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Hell, I'd just list it as Senior Benefits Specialist, Moderately Sized Company/Global Behemoth Corporation (2015-present) and be done with it. Do this or market the title upgrade as progression. even if you weren't promoted they raised your title because there's people working/being paid at a lower level than you. That is a defacto promotion. We had something similar after a merger, my whole team jumped 1 some 2 levels. Comparing them to some of their new peers, it was correct lol.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Hell, I'd just list it as Senior Benefits Specialist, Moderately Sized Company/Global Behemoth Corporation (2015-present) and be done with it. I think this is short changing as the change in titles will be seen as promotions, which generally look better. I'd group them, all up like Happiness Commando showed.
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Lockback posted:I think this is short changing as the change in titles will be seen as promotions, which generally look better. Agree but think Happiness Commandos presentation could be clearer. IMO  Edit: Maybe a single tab in front of the subsections of the company name so it is crystal clear on scanning they all belong to global behemoth. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 19:33 on May 19, 2022 |
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CarForumPoster posted:I am hiring again, this time for a FT remote paralegal. Req went up late Friday, 130 applicants by Monday. Reviewed 130 resumes in 3 hours, rejecting half and sending a filtering question to the other half. The ones who get it right, go to a phone interview. No one prob cares but now at 260 applicants under a week. Filtering question has worked pretty well. So far I reject roughly 50% based on resume, about 25% havent responded to the filtering question (which can be answered with a quick google search by a knowledgeable person). ~50% of the question answers are incorrect/missing information so now have ~30 phone interviews to do in the next 2 weeks. Also pro tip for job seekers, capital markets are constraining. So any unprofitable company dependent on fundraising is gonna face a tougher time. Startups usually fall in this category but certainly lots of other companies as well. We could see large layoffs if this continues another 2 months. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 19:41 on May 19, 2022 |
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I'm curious as to what you are using for the filtering question. Domain-specific information?
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Arquinsiel posted:I'm curious as to what you are using for the filtering question. Domain-specific information? At the risk of doxxing myself (plz dont) if I like someones resume I message them this ---- Hi {CANDIDATE_FIRST_NAME}, thanks for applying to the {JOB_TITLE} opening at {COMPANY_NAME}. I reviewed your resume and am impressed with your credentials. I'd like to move to the next interview step. Here's our interview process: 1) I ask a basic skills question (see below for the question.) 2) Phone interview. 3) Draft a 1 page document. 4) Video interview with managing partner 5) Final interview with the team. So here's Step 1's question: {COMPANY_NAME} is defending a small business owner in a {case type} case in the {federal district}. The attorney sends you an IM asking: what are the rules for Judge {judge name} for a Motion for Summary Judgement? Write your response. Please include links to your sources, if you use any. (Do not call the judge.) Thank you for applying, hope to hear from you soon! --- There's a spectrum of rightness/ability to demonstrate knowledge for this question, but obvs can't go in to the answers. Still someone should be able to answer this for this position.
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Would making up the judge help if you told them what court they sat on? My non-law type brain says that's a pretty reasonable question that'll take a few minutes typing at most.
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Arquinsiel posted:Would making up the judge help if you told them what court they sat on? My non-law type brain says that's a pretty reasonable question that'll take a few minutes typing at most. I do tell them what court they sit on, the { } are redactions/template fields. In the actual thing I send theyre filled out. IMO any paralegal familiar with this type of litigation should know how to answer in like 30 seconds and anyone not familiar with this type should be able to get the answer in 5-15 minutes. If you know gently caress all about what goes on at a law firm because you answered phones and made coffee for 2 years it'll be a pretty hard question tho.
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Yeah but I mean if you don't give them a real judge's name then you don't have to tell them not to call the judge, and you don't risk a dipshit blaming your company for pissing off a judge.
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Arquinsiel posted:Yeah but I mean if you don't give them a real judge's name then you don't have to tell them not to call the judge, and you don't risk a dipshit blaming your company for pissing off a judge. Judges have specific rules sometimes though, thats the whole point.
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Hey thread, long time jobber  first time poster. Hoping to get some advice on my resume!I've worked in academic research for almost a decade, specifically in Alzheimer's research, and I am so fed up with academia and my current org that I am ready to loving bail. There's a lot of industry/biotech in my city, so I'm hoping to pivot towards that. I've talked a little about cGMP with one friend, happy to get any more insider tips/tricks/knowledge. I'm hoping to maybe not get into it in an entry level position, but after today I'm not ruling that out because WOW I hate my job! Here's my current mostly reworked resume: PAGE 1  PAGE 2  Basically I'm looking for some general resume feedback (and I'll also probably quote this post in the Laboratory-specific thread) so any and all feedback is welcomed. My current thoughts on the resume are I think it's okay, but imo it doesn't really sell me all that well to the pivot from academia into industry, and that's why I included the little "about me summary" thing on the first page. Normally I've never included that, but my career has literally been within the same organizations funded through the NIH so... I'm hoping I didn't pigeonhole myself in with this career path. I consider myself to be an excellent laboratory professional and a decent manager, but I really could not care less about the management aspect tbh. That was just the logical progression from like research assistant->supervisor->manager. Anyway that's a big stream of consciousness dump, thanks for reading all this!
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Quick question - I know that doing Federal resumes is A Whole rear end Thing that has their own rules, but what about State Governments? I'm putting together my resume to apply to a state-level IT position, and I'm trying to find out if that is more on the lines of a private sector resume, or more of a "step below a federal resume"?
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Johnny Truant posted:Hey thread, long time jobber Just a heads up: I'm hot a hiring manager or an HR person. I've just read dozens of resumes as part of a team trying to hire people and have helped a few friends write them. So, feel free to take my advice with a grain of salt. You're right that this doesn't really sell yourself very well. I can see that you have your action words in the present tense for your first job and in the past tense for you previous jobs. I think that they should all be past tense for clarity, but also particularly, to quote the OP: Bisty Q. posted:[*] The one weird old tip Many of these read like tasks from a job description rather than accomplishments. So instead of, "Sold widgets to nuns" it should be "Increase widgets sales by 43% in 18 months by expanding market to nuns" or something. You may need some simple tasks to expound and clarify, but focus on what you did that was impressive that you did. This is why I suggest the past tense as well, since the accomplishments are inherently in the past. Try to think about something you did that would impress a hiring manager in any field; some outside the box thinking, emergency solutions or other standout performance. Whatever it is, try and make it sound impressive without lying, but also keep it short to a sentence or so. Use concrete numbers if you can. Unless there is something particular about the field of neurology I don't know, take out the college course names. Even if you were in academia, it was your job at that point, right? Meaning you've been in the workforce for at least 5 years and your experience matters more than individual classes. Just put the bachelor's, institution, and graduation date. You say you're staying in Biotech, but how certain are you that someone reading this document will know these acronyms, particularly if that involves some dimwit HR drone? (present HR drones excluded, of course) I used to work for a biotech firm, and on my resume I personally spelled out Laboratory Inventory Management System but that is because I didn't stay in biotech so I couldn't rely on a hiring manager knowing what a LIMS is. However, I can also understand if the sentences would simply become too wordy if you expand them all out. Obvious exceptions are DNA, RNA, QA, QC, OSHA and SOPs. lovely as it sounds, putting something about a diversity initiative you worked with may detract if extra-cautious departments are looking for excuses to discard resumes that may introduce legal risk. It's probably not worth doing. Those are the high points I see. I'm sure others will offer their thoughts.
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Johnny Truant posted:Hey thread, long time jobber You use massively too many words. So many that I didn’t read your post. I bet your resume could say the same thing much clearer with half as many words. Someone knowledgeable about the job should get the gist of your career and how you fit in 60 seconds.
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Magnetic North posted:lotta good advice I appreciate the advice, will definitely remove the educational classes and the diversity initiative and change the present tense stuff. I'll play around with getting some more achievements and harder numbers on there, that's where I think I need to devote the most brainpower. CarForumPoster posted:You use massively too many words. So many that I didn’t read your post. I bet your resume could say the same thing much clearer with half as many words. lol, definitely a fair critique! I'll work on paring it down now. I think I was erring on the side of too much info just because I'm a gigantic ball of anxiety and have never had to really sell myself outside of my very niche career lane.
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Johnny Truant posted:I appreciate the advice, will definitely remove the educational classes and the diversity initiative and change the present tense stuff. Round two, hopefully this is an improvement: 
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Johnny Truant posted:Round two, hopefully this is an improvement: This is much better, and is probably going to need a better mind than mine to kick around much more. However, I did notice that a few of your trailing clauses had differing tenses. You said "Implemented(past) OSHA procedures, improve (present) safety communication, and foster (present)..." So those up at least clean those up first. You may have to read them aloud. This is probably a matter of taste, but I also don't know if I like that sort of "enumerative" sentence (or lack of a better term), on a resume, especially if it goes above two items unless the terms are very simple. "Enjoyed drugs, tobacco, and firearms" might be okay but "Enjoyed dank weedy drugs, smooth tobacco from Virginia, and Soviet-era surplus firearms rammed full of play-doh" doesn't really sound great on a resume in my opinion; some may disagree. I prefer them to be "contingent" clauses with prepositions. So, something like "Implemented OSHA procedures and improved safety communication TO ..." or "Implemented OSHA procedures BY improving safety communication TO ..." This is much more art than science, but just imagine an incredibly disinterested, barely literate person reading this. Try not to inhibit clarity.
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Magnetic North posted:This is much better, and is probably going to need a better mind than mine to kick around much more. However, I did notice that a few of your trailing clauses had differing tenses. You said "Implemented(past) OSHA procedures, improve (present) safety communication, and foster (present)..." So those up at least clean those up first. You may have to read them aloud. Thanks for the comments! I actually fixed the clauses immediately after I posed this haha, jumped the gun a bit on making the screencap. Your last sentence about not inhibiting clarity is definitely one I'm going to remember. 
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Johnny Truant posted:Round two, hopefully this is an improvement: Big improvement. Comparing first and last I noticed first has some font size inconsistencies. You use a lot of acronyms without spelling them out, I am guessing anyone in lab pharma know terms like CLIA, RNA and DNA but just consider that you may be getting read by a non technical HR person and they, god forbid, may be the filter on which resumes are passed along. I feel like "Improved product request completion by 3..." could be restated simpler and stronger, but nothing comes to mind. Set it down for a few days and go paragrah by paragraph and ask "how can I say the same thing in fewer words?" I see you omitted your certs and pubs from your 2nd post, hopefully you include them in your resume.
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CarForumPoster posted:Big improvement. Comparing first and last I noticed first has some font size inconsistencies. Thanks (for reading my post this time  )! I think the font consistencies may be because I screencapped the image, but I'll double check that again. Def included the certs and pubs still, I just didn't change anything there save for the omissions suggested earlier.I'm definitely taking a complete look over the resume every morning, but I'm going to focus on the bullet point you singled out. I feel like it's maybe to do with the action verb "improved"? Hmmm.
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