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Job Hunting Scripts

15 points by CajuM 1y ago

appleaday1 1y ago
Cool will try to use it to see if I can find fraudlent companies or fake ones.
- CajuM 1y ago
  If you look at the https://github.com/CajuM/jobhunt/blob/master/gh-orgs-gtek.tsv https://github.com/CajuM/jobhunt/blob/master/gh-orgs-gtek.ts... file you should see largely reputable organizations. It's still a churn to find a job as many are not companies that hire, or are just historical start-ups. You could Google "site:{domain_from_url} careers" and filter them that way with a script. You'll still need a sorry.sh script for that.
  - CajuM 1y ago
    You can then use the following prompt on ChatGPT for the top results: "are there job openings at this url: {url} answer in at most one word, either yes or no"
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tobr 1y ago
How does a submission with no comments, a handful of points, posted by a completely new account, linking to a barely used GitHub repo… go straight to the top of HN?
- jacobsenscott 1y ago
  Weekend HN is always like this.
- chistev 1y ago
  Luck
  - CajuM 1y ago
    guess you're right...
- journal 1y ago
  maybe hn gives preferential treatment to key words like 'job'?
urbanisierung 1y ago
why didn't you use the github api to fetch the data?
- CajuM 1y ago
  If I recall correctly the GitHub API for fetching organizations is authenticated and was worried I'd get banned. Either that or the rate limiting was more lax on the web-site.
onebitwise 1y ago
Clever “sorry.sh” using nmcli!
- CajuM 1y ago
  You can also ssh into your wireless router and if it's OpenWrt do a `ifdown wan && ifup wan`. It just happened that I own a Banana PI that used to have ArchLinux ARM on it.
tombert 1y ago
I ended up writing a browser plugin to autofill a lot of fields in job applications. It’s extremely inelegant, just a bunch of hackey jquery stuff to automatically set fields, a few conditionals for slightly less obvious stuff, and that’s pretty much it. I have thought about trying extend this to something like Selenium and applying to literally every software job on LinkedIn and Indeed automatically, but I can’t imagine that would actually turn out well for me. I hate this grind. It’s exhausting, more so knowing that most of the jobs I am applying to are probably fake postings to help companies pretend they are growing to get more investor money. I guess time is wasteable for us peons.
- CajuM 1y ago
  Oh... I did not know companies did that? Even serious ones?
  - tombert 1y ago
    Yeah I think even big companies are doing this now. To some extent they’ve been doing this for a long time specifically to qualify people for H1B visas; they post applications in obscure places so that they can tell Immigration that they “can’t find anyone in the US to do this job!”, but I think now they realized that it basically cost them nothing to have posts that they have no intention of actually answering to. I get it, having lots of job posts signals growth and it’s not illegal but it’s annoying how much of my time they waste.

Job Hunting Scripts

15 points by CajuM 1y ago

appleaday1 1y ago

Cool will try to use it to see if I can find fraudlent companies or fake ones.

CajuM 1y ago
If you look at the https://github.com/CajuM/jobhunt/blob/master/gh-orgs-gtek.tsv https://github.com/CajuM/jobhunt/blob/master/gh-orgs-gtek.ts... file you should see largely reputable organizations. It's still a churn to find a job as many are not companies that hire, or are just historical start-ups. You could Google "site:{domain_from_url} careers" and filter them that way with a script. You'll still need a sorry.sh script for that.
- CajuM 1y ago
  You can then use the following prompt on ChatGPT for the top results: "are there job openings at this url: {url} answer in at most one word, either yes or no"

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tobr 1y ago

How does a submission with no comments, a handful of points, posted by a completely new account, linking to a barely used GitHub repo… go straight to the top of HN?

jacobsenscott 1y ago
Weekend HN is always like this.
chistev 1y ago
Luck
- CajuM 1y ago
  guess you're right...
journal 1y ago
maybe hn gives preferential treatment to key words like 'job'?

urbanisierung 1y ago

why didn't you use the github api to fetch the data?

CajuM 1y ago
If I recall correctly the GitHub API for fetching organizations is authenticated and was worried I'd get banned. Either that or the rate limiting was more lax on the web-site.

onebitwise 1y ago

Clever “sorry.sh” using nmcli!

CajuM 1y ago
You can also ssh into your wireless router and if it's OpenWrt do a `ifdown wan && ifup wan`. It just happened that I own a Banana PI that used to have ArchLinux ARM on it.

tombert 1y ago

I ended up writing a browser plugin to autofill a lot of fields in job applications. It’s extremely inelegant, just a bunch of hackey jquery stuff to automatically set fields, a few conditionals for slightly less obvious stuff, and that’s pretty much it. I have thought about trying extend this to something like Selenium and applying to literally every software job on LinkedIn and Indeed automatically, but I can’t imagine that would actually turn out well for me. I hate this grind. It’s exhausting, more so knowing that most of the jobs I am applying to are probably fake postings to help companies pretend they are growing to get more investor money. I guess time is wasteable for us peons.

CajuM 1y ago
Oh... I did not know companies did that? Even serious ones?
- tombert 1y ago
  Yeah I think even big companies are doing this now. To some extent they’ve been doing this for a long time specifically to qualify people for H1B visas; they post applications in obscure places so that they can tell Immigration that they “can’t find anyone in the US to do this job!”, but I think now they realized that it basically cost them nothing to have posts that they have no intention of actually answering to. I get it, having lots of job posts signals growth and it’s not illegal but it’s annoying how much of my time they waste.