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It's fine to disagree, but you're not making any points or arguments, only asserting the opposite with no supporting information apart from that you just happen

by p4wnc6 10y ago

It's fine to disagree, but you're not making any points or arguments, only asserting the opposite with no supporting information apart from that you just happen to think the opposite. That's fine, but you've got to agree that no one should find that convincing. Since my experience, the experience of my peers, the advice of many career counselors and recruiters, and the rough arguments I sketched all do support what I'm saying, I'm still going to believe it, and believe that your choice not to engage with it is not a reasonable take on it, much like your focus on very small outlier experiences, like quick job hopping in SV, is not a reasonable thing to base any of this on.

reality_czech 10y ago
Maybe you're just not that desirable of a job candidate, or you're living in an area without that many jobs. It's never taken me more than 2 months to find another job, and all my jobs have paid more than 20k (except the unpaid internship I took in college).
- p4wnc6 10y ago
  Your anecdotal experience isn't very important though. I've gotten jobs with search times of 3 months, 1 month, 16 months, and my current search is 14 months. The salary weighted average would put it close to, but slightly less than, 10 months, and the average salary is a bit higher. No one's claiming it's a perfect rule. Only that it's useful on average. I do live in an area without many jobs for the current search, but I am not searching for jobs in this area, only in other areas with many jobs. In previous searches I was living in large urban centers with well-known tech companies, large start-up communities, famous universities, etc. etc. and it did not materially make the search time shorter on average. Overall though, I don't care as much about your anecdata vs. my anecdata. I more believe the heuristic because so many people describe it as accurate and it has been around a long time and vetted by people who work in recruiting professionally.

by p4wnc6 10y ago

reality_czech 10y ago

Maybe you're just not that desirable of a job candidate, or you're living in an area without that many jobs. It's never taken me more than 2 months to find another job, and all my jobs have paid more than 20k (except the unpaid internship I took in college).

p4wnc6 10y ago
Your anecdotal experience isn't very important though. I've gotten jobs with search times of 3 months, 1 month, 16 months, and my current search is 14 months. The salary weighted average would put it close to, but slightly less than, 10 months, and the average salary is a bit higher. No one's claiming it's a perfect rule. Only that it's useful on average. I do live in an area without many jobs for the current search, but I am not searching for jobs in this area, only in other areas with many jobs. In previous searches I was living in large urban centers with well-known tech companies, large start-up communities, famous universities, etc. etc. and it did not materially make the search time shorter on average. Overall though, I don't care as much about your anecdata vs. my anecdata. I more believe the heuristic because so many people describe it as accurate and it has been around a long time and vetted by people who work in recruiting professionally.