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Just do what I did, don't put your GPA on your resume.
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# ? May 5, 2024 14:56 |
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 14:20 |
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John Wick of Dogs posted:Just do what I did, don't put your GPA on your resume.
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# ? May 5, 2024 15:00 |
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I don't think the first part of this post was shared in here yet. But either way, op posted an update. My (26F) friend's (26F) boyfriend (28M) gave me an inappropriately expensive gift for my birthday. How do I react? quote:Hey everyone, UPDATE: My friend's boyfriend gave me an inappropriately expensive birthday gift (turns out he stole it. From his MUM.) quote:To summarise the original post: My (26F) friend's (26F) perpetually broke boyfriend (28M) gave me a gift for my birthday. It initially looked like a thoughtfully chosen, normal gift with a lovely connection to a recent trip to my mother's homecountry I took in winter, but after growing suspicious of the quality of the materials, I realised that it was in fact an antique worth hundreds of Euros. Theories as to what happened included him not being aware of the item's value, possibly having bought it from someone who didn't know what they were selling, or him trying to somehow hurt his girlfriend/my friend and/or trying to hit on me in a bizarre, inappropriate way.
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# ? May 5, 2024 15:04 |
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There are definitely some fields that only look out for high grades, especially if you want to do further studies. Which is really rough in the current job economy since employers are only looking for the top 5% if preferable but they also want them to work for as low wage as possible. Which results in a lot of overqualified people applying for entry level jobs, further worsening the situation for actual entry level people that aren't exceptional.
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# ? May 5, 2024 15:04 |
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Shanghaied posted:A C is typically 70%, no? An E or pass is 60% in the US and elsewhere, although some countries and programmes have 50% for Es. You can't directly compare percent because the exams are very different. Exams in the UK are much harder than the US, it's purposefully very, very difficult to get 80%+ in the UK. It's fairer to compare by grade boundaries instead. A 2:2 is a C equivalent, not a D which is a barely scrapped pass.
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# ? May 5, 2024 15:05 |
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The UK has four grades at bachelor level basically, you can get a 1st (70%+), a 2:1 (60-69), a 2:2 (50-59), a 3rd (40-49) and a fail below 40. Most grad and masters/PhD programmes require a 2:1 or a first, and more generally there's a kind of achievement cutoff where those are looked on as significantly better than 2:3 or 3rd class. It definitely can have impact, especially if you're looking to get into work directly related to the degree. Although, it also doesn't really matter once you've got actual experience and other more relevant qualifications.
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# ? May 5, 2024 15:12 |
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DemoneeHo posted:I don't think the first part of this post was shared in here yet. But either way, op posted an update. this is so ........ he JUST HAPPENED to accidentally swipe the exact item that would be apparently related to her recent trip? "parts of it that should have been glass didn't look like glas" what the gently caress does this mean? in the first post it was an extremely specific item that he would be unlikely to just have, but hey, it turns out it was in fact just some random poo poo somebody owned that he knew nothing about and grabbed without knowing anything and hey presto it's the perfect hyperspecific gift to relate to this person's vacation and he did it totally by accident by swiping it off a shelf at his mom's house. he knew nothing at all about it although it's insanely important to his mom and their only link to the old country that he didn't know she was from and poo poo too. what the hell IS this apparently diamond-studded item
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# ? May 5, 2024 15:25 |
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You can't just compare percentages, the UK exams are set up so that getting 70%+ is only for the very top students, and don't use grading curves either so it's not like the top X% get a first. A 2:2 isn't great but really isn't too bad unless you really have a bad CV.
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# ? May 5, 2024 15:26 |
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Serene Dragon posted:You can't directly compare percent because the exams are very different. Exams in the UK are much harder than the US, it's purposefully very, very difficult to get 80%+ in the UK. It's fairer to compare by grade boundaries instead. A 2:2 is a C equivalent, not a D which is a barely scrapped pass. Huh, interesting. When it comes to English language textbooks we mostly use American ones, with some British ones thrown in the mix. Most textbooks now also come with banks of exam questions and prep material etc, and I hadn't noticed that the British questions were much different than the American ones. But then again I also don't use the included questions, so I guess I haven't been paying attention.
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# ? May 5, 2024 15:33 |
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InediblePenguin posted:this is so ........ he JUST HAPPENED to accidentally swipe the exact item that would be apparently related to her recent trip? "parts of it that should have been glass didn't look like glas" what the gently caress does this mean? in the first post it was an extremely specific item that he would be unlikely to just have, but hey, it turns out it was in fact just some random poo poo somebody owned that he knew nothing about and grabbed without knowing anything and hey presto it's the perfect hyperspecific gift to relate to this person's vacation and he did it totally by accident by swiping it off a shelf at his mom's house. he knew nothing at all about it although it's insanely important to his mom and their only link to the old country that he didn't know she was from and poo poo too. poop dagger
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# ? May 5, 2024 15:35 |
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InediblePenguin posted:this is so ........ he JUST HAPPENED to accidentally swipe the exact item that would be apparently related to her recent trip? "parts of it that should have been glass didn't look like glas" what the gently caress does this mean? in the first post it was an extremely specific item that he would be unlikely to just have, but hey, it turns out it was in fact just some random poo poo somebody owned that he knew nothing about and grabbed without knowing anything and hey presto it's the perfect hyperspecific gift to relate to this person's vacation and he did it totally by accident by swiping it off a shelf at his mom's house. he knew nothing at all about it although it's insanely important to his mom and their only link to the old country that he didn't know she was from and poo poo too. €750 sounds too cheap for diamonds. It could be things like Baltic amber or Czech garnet or whatever that's closely associated with a region. It might not have been entirely random, but like "hi OP went to X recently, grandma was also was from X, I'll just grab one of her tchotchkes, there are so many of them around mum's house anyway."
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# ? May 5, 2024 15:39 |
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Call Your Grandma posted:poop dagger A diamond poop knife is the only thing that can cut through the hardest of poops InediblePenguin posted:what the hell IS this apparently diamond-studded item She finally gave up details: OP posted:Alright, alright - it's super specific, but it's a special kind of religious devotional triptych made, in the case of 'my' particular one, of silver and real loving rubies. They're called 'travel triptychs' and common in my family's home region, though, of course, they aren't usually made of silver and gemstones. I initially grew suspicious because of the maker's mark a) saying that it's silver and b) specifically saying that it's 800 silver, which is a kind of silver used only up to the 1800s (modern silverwork uses 925 silver, aka 'sterling silver'). The religious aspect wasn't very meaningful to me, but my family's home city is famous for its silversmithing, and my mother's family were silversmiths, and the item specifically is BEAUTIFUL. Of course it is, it's a thousand-dollar antique inlaid with loving rubies.
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# ? May 5, 2024 15:46 |
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Deformed Church posted:The UK has four grades at bachelor level basically, you can get a 1st (70%+), a 2:1 (60-69), a 2:2 (50-59), a 3rd (40-49) and a fail below 40. Is 2:3 the same as 3rd?
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# ? May 5, 2024 16:13 |
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mystes posted:Yeah I don't know if potential employers care more in the UK or wherever the OP is but in the US in general I wouldn't think it would matter that much? Depends on the company. Some places apparently ask for college entrance test scores or transcripts from people who have been out of school for decades, which basically shuts out anyone who didn't go to school in the US, or didn't take the path of a traditional student. The hiring process at Canonical has a notoriously bizarre focus on high school. quote:Mark begins our call by saying: "I've read your essay responses. You say you didn't go to high school. Generally I only want people who are in the top 5%. You obviously can't prove that applies to you. So tell me why I should believe you were the equivalent to the top 5% of your peers at 16."
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# ? May 5, 2024 16:32 |
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Imagine being the CEO of any reasonably sized company and spending multiple hours arguing with a candidate about whether an US B and an European B are equivalent and why they worked at a Burger King at age 19 when a McDonalds was 500m closer lol. You sure are creating shareholder value now! It's also hilariously pathetic that HR as a "profession" is continuously inventing more and more convoluted assessment tools, when research has shown again and again that the vast majority of assessment tests work no better than chance. I've been told that HR is moving away from MBTI recently because there is greater awareness nowadays that MBTI is bullshit pseudoscience, but the stuff they're moving to are not better. You guys are corporate palm-readers, don't pretend otherwise lol.
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Shanghaied posted:Imagine being the CEO of any reasonably sized company and spending multiple hours arguing with a candidate about whether an US B and an European B are equivalent and why they worked at a Burger King at age 19 when a McDonalds was 500m closer lol. You sure are creating shareholder value now! I don't know that any would ever see a resume. I couldn't comment up thread because I've risen to a point where I just don't screen resumes. Someone tells me this is the candidates pool and I tell them to make the best choice and I'll get the budget for the offer. The thought of an executive search agency giving a stack of resumes to a CEO just makes me laugh.
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# ? May 5, 2024 17:41 |
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Hughlander posted:I don't know that any would ever see a resume. I couldn't comment up thread because I've risen to a point where I just don't screen resumes. Someone tells me this is the candidates pool and I tell them to make the best choice and I'll get the budget for the offer. The thought of an executive search agency giving a stack of resumes to a CEO just makes me laugh. Yeah but you're a middleman. That would be funny to you.
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Hughlander posted:I don't know that any would ever see a resume. I couldn't comment up thread because I've risen to a point where I just don't screen resumes. Someone tells me this is the candidates pool and I tell them to make the best choice and I'll get the budget for the offer. The thought of an executive search agency giving a stack of resumes to a CEO just makes me laugh. I don't think many CEOs would. But the story posted up thread is about Canonical specifically, whose CEO is a known weirdo.
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# ? May 5, 2024 17:53 |
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The_Franz posted:Depends on the company. Some places apparently ask for college entrance test scores or transcripts from people who have been out of school for decades, which basically shuts out anyone who didn't go to school in the US, or didn't take the path of a traditional student. The hiring process at Canonical has a notoriously bizarre focus on high school. quote:Pages of essays written: 18 Holy lol the insane amount of hoops this person jumped through just to be told by the CEO that without proof of a good high school GPA they weren't worth hiring. "Why doesn't anyone want to work anymore?" -this CEO, probably
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# ? May 5, 2024 17:53 |
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I had to look it up, but Canonical is the company that makes Ubuntu. Based on what little I know about Linux users, everything suddenly made sense.
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# ? May 5, 2024 17:56 |
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If someone started asking me about high school in a professional interview--for Canonical no less, I genuinely would not be able to stop laughing in the interviewers face and saying things like "tell me you peaked in high school without telling me you peaked in high school"
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# ? May 5, 2024 18:02 |
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Even weirder as Ubuntu is, from my perspective, just Debian through a middleman.
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# ? May 5, 2024 18:08 |
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A colleague of mine had to pay some specialized service to certify that his Hungarian high-school education was equivalent to a US high-school graduation, for some US visa/immigration paperwork. This is despite the fact he already had a PhD from a US university. You'd think after you'd got to a certain point they'd stop caring about whether you learnt your colors in kindergarten.
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# ? May 5, 2024 18:17 |
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Shanghaied posted:I don't think many CEOs would. But the story posted up thread is about Canonical specifically, whose CEO is a known weirdo. Ok. Did not know it was an insane real story.
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# ? May 5, 2024 18:22 |
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Hobnob posted:A colleague of mine had to pay some specialized service to certify that his Hungarian high-school education was equivalent to a US high-school graduation, for some US visa/immigration paperwork. This is despite the fact he already had a PhD from a US university. needing to go back and do a 10th grade chemistry test which i somehow missed or else my bachelors and masters degrees “won’t count” is a regular recurring nightmare for me despite the completing the degrees over a decade ago
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# ? May 5, 2024 18:22 |
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My company screens all male candidates for potty training. You might think it's unnecessary and invasive, but you can never be sure nowadays, some guys just don't wipe their rear end anymore. Edit: ^^^^^^ Shanghaied fucked around with this message at 18:28 on May 5, 2024 |
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blackmet posted:On the one hand, destroying your partners property on purpose is wrong. She didn’t get stung at all, she just smashed it and ran away. If she had actually tried to move it without smoking the bees or prepping anything she wouldn’t sitting calmly at the kitchen table when he came home, she’d be covered in bee stings or at the ER after going into anaphylactic shock. What a gross lady
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# ? May 5, 2024 18:30 |
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DemoneeHo posted:A diamond poop knife is the only thing that can cut through the hardest of poops Yeah. Super weird. Who gives a 20 something year old a silver and rubies triptich depicting st. Dracula slaying a dragon
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# ? May 5, 2024 18:36 |
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Hughlander posted:AITAH for not telling my parents that my adopted son was my biological son until there was a financial reason to do so? I also liked the kid having figured out his real parenting situation years ago and only kept the kayfabe up because he thought it was funny.
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Wicked Them Beats posted:Holy lol the insane amount of hoops this person jumped through just to be told by the CEO that without proof of a good high school GPA they weren't worth hiring. it's not legal to tell someone you don't want to hire them because they're a woman; Shuttleworth has been known to be a massive misogynist since the late naughts
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# ? May 5, 2024 18:41 |
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Beekeeper wife is a textbook abuser and I'm not sure why anyone is debating the relative threat level of common domestic pollinators. She smashed the poo poo out of something her husband loves and worked hard on and said it was for his own good. That's abuse, full stop, and I can virtually guarantee it's not the first time she's done stuff like this. Dude needs to gtfo immediately
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# ? May 5, 2024 18:45 |
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Irisi posted:He was subsequently surprised by the fact his eight year old nephew took him by the hand, led him outside and showed him how to unpin a peg from a sheet, all the while instructing him in the kindly but slightly infantilising manner a care home worker might help an old man with memory loss who had forgotten how forks work. I'm just catching up on the thread now, but it feels like everyone was talking about Unable-To-Operate-Hose Guy and passed over this awe-inspiring eight-year-old who figured out how to slam on an adult all weekend without getting in trouble for it. I love this kid.
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# ? May 5, 2024 18:46 |
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dervival posted:it's not legal to tell someone you don't want to hire them because they're a woman; Shuttleworth has been known to be a massive misogynist since the late naughts Being a white South African computer-toucher in the 1990s sure breaks your brain something fierce 800peepee51doodoo posted:Beekeeper wife is a textbook abuser and I'm not sure why anyone is debating the relative threat level of common domestic pollinators. She smashed the poo poo out of something her husband loves and worked hard on and said it was for his own good. That's abuse, full stop, and I can virtually guarantee it's not the first time she's done stuff like this. Dude needs to gtfo immediately Nobody was debating. Everyone ITT was calling her an rear end in a top hat and talking about how awesome bees are. The only exception was the poster who originally posted the story.
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# ? May 5, 2024 18:49 |
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Shanghaied posted:Nobody was debating. Everyone ITT was calling her an rear end in a top hat and talking about how awesome bees are. The only exception was the poster who originally posted the story. No there was one dude in here who thought honey bees are scary and a safety hazard to the baby
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# ? May 5, 2024 19:00 |
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Propaniac posted:Posting this because I'm hoping someone can inform me whether the boyfriend is stupid or this is a legitimate career pursuit. It’s legit but it’s really fuckin hard. You need to do an absurd amount of traveling, you need to place decently well at competitions, and you need to a) have a bunch of sponsors and b) work your rear end off representing them. Plus there’s a thousand thousand other dudes out there trying to live the dream of professional fisherman who you’re competing with. It’s very much like deciding that you’ll become a streamer cause you love playing video games.
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idiotsavant posted:It’s legit but it’s really fuckin hard. You need to do an absurd amount of traveling, you need to place decently well at competitions, and you need to a) have a bunch of sponsors and b) work your rear end off representing them. Plus there’s a thousand thousand other dudes out there trying to live the dream of professional fisherman who you’re competing with. It’s very much like deciding that you’ll become a streamer cause you love playing video games. It's also like being a streamer in that it's really easy to become a video game streamer (just get a camera and mic and start streaming) or competition fisherman (show up to fishing competitions), it's the 'professional' part that's hard and that only a few people manage to pull off. People have a tendency to focus in on how easy 'doing the thing' is without paying attention to how hard 'making a living' or 'making good money' at the thing is.
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# ? May 5, 2024 19:14 |
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Kenshin posted:No there was one dude in here who thought honey bees are scary and a safety hazard to the baby (honestly the bigger problem is probably people having monoculture grass lawns and using pesticides anyway)
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# ? May 5, 2024 19:15 |
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idiotsavant posted:It’s legit but it’s really fuckin hard. You need to do an absurd amount of traveling, you need to place decently well at competitions, and you need to a) have a bunch of sponsors and b) work your rear end off representing them. Plus there’s a thousand thousand other dudes out there trying to live the dream of professional fisherman who you’re competing with. It’s very much like deciding that you’ll become a streamer cause you love playing video games. Also there are bizarre cheating scandals where dudes stuff dead fish with lead weights, or smuggle in frozen fish and "catch" them.
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# ? May 5, 2024 19:15 |
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wheatpuppy posted:Also there are bizarre cheating scandals where dudes stuff dead fish with lead weights, or smuggle in frozen fish and "catch" them. WE'VE GOT WEIGHTS IN FISH!
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wheatpuppy posted:Also there are bizarre cheating scandals where dudes stuff dead fish with lead weights, or smuggle in frozen fish and "catch" them. AFAIK most of the tournaments these days are strictly live fish catch & release events, and you get penalized pretty seriously for dead fish. For boat tournaments they keep them in live wells & do a live weigh-in, and for kayak tournaments I think a lot of them do photo submissions where you lay the fish on a somewhat specific measuring board & take a photo that you submit to the tournament website before releasing it. But you still have cheating of various sorts, just different types.
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# ? May 5, 2024 20:07 |