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throwaway202351 commented on I thought I wanted to be a professor, then I served on a hiring committee (2021)   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/ykonstant
stevezsa8 · 3 years ago
Maybe she used a spell to get the job?

I watched this 8-part documentary where kids get invited to a special school to learn magic.

throwaway202351 · 3 years ago
"Invited" is a strong word when almost all of those students were legacy admissions.
throwaway202351 commented on Going beyond ‘do you know of any open positions?’   dewanahmed.com/do-you-kno... · Posted by u/mooreds
bojo · 3 years ago
> embellish your resume and work history. If you’ve read a tutorial on a technology, you list it.

I'm going through a huge pile of resumes for a role I have open this week and these are getting thrown out immediately. I have no interest in reading through 6 pages of bullet points with keywords bolded. It's tacky, too information dense, and doesn't call out what you are actually good at nor how you've applied it.

throwaway202351 · 3 years ago
I think the 'correct' (from the perspective of getting an interview) approach would be to personalize your resume to include skills that are called out in the listing, even if you've just read a tutorial on it. Not to list a ton of irrelevant skills.

An example would be if you had 5 years of experience in AWS and only a few tutorials of GCP for experience, but the listing specifically wants GCP skills, you list it.

Not a case where you have 5 years of backend experience and start applying to senior frontend positions because you went through a React tutorial.

throwaway202351 commented on Going beyond ‘do you know of any open positions?’   dewanahmed.com/do-you-kno... · Posted by u/mooreds
drBonkers · 3 years ago
The author recommends this resume builder [1]. Everything I've learned about resumes tells me that this style will not be taken seriously— which makes me doubt the veracity of the rest of his post.

Am I wrong? Do hiring managers like to see this style of resume?

[1] https://novoresume.com/

throwaway202351 · 3 years ago
I've gotten some complements for my resume's layout and it's basically the exact opposite of that.

It's based off of some latex template that looks roughly like this: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/cv-template-using-t...

throwaway202351 commented on Going beyond ‘do you know of any open positions?’   dewanahmed.com/do-you-kno... · Posted by u/mooreds
itqwertz · 3 years ago
I see most of those open-position LinkedIn posts as lazy cries for help rather than legitimate job search strategy. People swarm and post good reviews of the person as a coworker/employee, but it’s a waste of time. Sympathy is not worth a damn, no matter how many people tell you that you deserve a great job.

Chris Rock said something similar to my attitude: a person waiting on the side of the road with a broken car isn’t getting help. A person pushing their car on an exit ramp will get people to help.

Here are better job hunting strategies:

* Connect with anyone (just spam connect requests). You can easily have 5,000 connections. This looks good to people who take a cursory glance at your profile.

* remove anything on your profile that could be a potential liability for your future employer: no attitude, no rainbow emojis, no flags, no political statements

* embellish your resume and work history. If you’ve read a tutorial on a technology, you list it.

* start applying for anything you might qualify for. Interviewing is a skill and a process you have to get used to.

* Set your status to Open-to-work, open accounts on Monster/Dice/Blind/Indeed and start talking to headhunters/recruiters. Reach out to the big players (TekSystems, Robert Half, etc) as well as the smaller shops and see what they have.

* Personally ask or DM your friends for leads and references.

* search for “inurl:careers <your role or industry>” and find open positions to apply for anything

If you can’t get a job after following this advice, you’re doing something wrong.

throwaway202351 · 3 years ago
> no rainbow emojis

So it's not possible to be openly gay and hire-able?

I mean, sure, that must be true for some companies but I wouldn't want to work at those anyway.

edit: on second read, this might come off as more aggressive than I wanted, and the rest of the post is pretty good, but this part just stood out to me

throwaway202351 commented on Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard   theverge.com/2023/7/11/23... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
throwaway202351 · 3 years ago
Maybe it's just sour grapes from me, but it feels like a lot of these acquisitions are for has-been companies that were great 10+ years ago but haven't had much success lately. Bethesda, Double Fine, and now Activation Blizzard.
throwaway202351 commented on Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he's found fragments of alien technology   abc11.com/alien-technolog... · Posted by u/macinjosh
throwaway202351 · 3 years ago
Reminds me of this youtube vid I saw about him recently, titled "harvard & aliens & crackpots: a disambiguation of Avi Loeb."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI

throwaway202351 commented on New York City’s AI hiring law takes effect   qz.com/americas-first-law... · Posted by u/donohoe
Oras · 3 years ago
While I agree there should be regulations, there should be clear requirements instead of saying "bias". What does bias mean? To clarify, here are a few examples:

1. Gender bias

There is a widely used keyword-based gender bias measurement based on a study from 2011. The research claims that job ads with higher levels have more masculine words. This is based on a pre-defined list of masculine and feminine words [0][1]. Another Harvard study stated that women would only apply for jobs if they meet 100% of the requirements, while men would apply for 60% or less [2].

2. Racial bias

This might be more related to video interviews or based on name, age, or address in resumes. For resumes, there are tools already to anonymise resumes to ensure the focus is on experience instead of the person.

3. Disability

ADA (American Disability Act). According to this FAQ [3], "The ADA does not require employers to develop or maintain job descriptions. However, a written job description that is prepared before advertising or interviewing applicants for a job will be considered as evidence along with other relevant factors."

The list could go on, with age, sexual orientation, native speaker or not ... etc. That's why the expectations have to be clearly defined.

The law, as I understand it, will lock employers to their vendors as they will be required to keep data for auditing, which might incur more charges.

[0] https://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/static/documents/Gauc...

[1] https://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/about

[2] https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless...

[3] https://adata.org/faq/does-ada-require-employers-develop-wri....

throwaway202351 · 3 years ago
Just to add to this, I feel like there's a ton of ways to "accidentally" introduce a lot of bias in hiring: referring everyone from your college's club to the company, brain teasers that require some irrelevant cultural background, mandatory in office/remote cultures, off site decisions. Heck I even saw a company that advertised that they go surfing together every weekend for bonding.

I'm not sure what can be done with these cases, and I know people, of various protected out-groups, that have specifically mentioned those as reasons not to join a company.

throwaway202351 commented on That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job   cohost.org/stillinbeta/po... · Posted by u/luu
wiseowise · 3 years ago
Where did they advocate for war?
throwaway202351 · 3 years ago
Gentlemen, you can't advocate for war here, this is the defense room!
throwaway202351 commented on That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job   cohost.org/stillinbeta/po... · Posted by u/luu
toyg · 3 years ago
He basically admits as such, when he said challenging the nondisparaging clauses in the name of free speech was not worth risking the $40k paycheck.
throwaway202351 · 3 years ago
She?
throwaway202351 commented on Wikipedia switches to CC BY-SA 4.0 license   diff.wikimedia.org/2023/0... · Posted by u/skilled
bmacho · 3 years ago
Can I confess something? I know that the Wikipedia licence requires (both the old and the new) linking the CC licence every time I quote something from Wikipedia[0], but I only link the Wikipedia article, and never link the CC licence.

So many human workyears poured into licences, and still even the most basic things are total moronic.

edit: actually I have no idea why does the CC licence contain that part? Any ideas?

[0] : "You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license," - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

throwaway202351 · 3 years ago
Not a lawyer, but doesn't linking to Wikipedia indirectly link to a copy of the license?

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