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by fecak 13y ago
Actually, GitHub is just a supplemental CV. A potentially positive indicator, that among many others (including a CV itself) will be part of the body of work to determine a candidate's qualifications. Those in hiring positions need to
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by fecak 13y ago
That is different, although I've seen some in the US include high school (even when they went on to graduate college) if the writer felt the school had some prestige. That would equate to 14-18 years old in the US. Thanks for the deta
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by fecak 13y ago
Middle school education? What country did you hear this in? That is definitely not the case in the US, and I'd venture to guess that would be customary only in countries where a middle school education is generally the highest level
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by fecak 13y ago
Are Australian recruiters and hiring managers actually reading all those pages thoroughly? I've rarely had to encourage candidates in the US to beef up their resumes (sometimes they need to add more tech content), but I'd probabl
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by fecak 13y ago
Never read that one, thanks for the share.
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by fecak 13y ago
3 pages isn't some unforgivable sin by any means, but that is the range where people start to wonder about your ability to prioritize your background. 1-2 pages are always safe, assuming you can say what you need to say. For 10 years
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by fecak 13y ago
You're right - I'd be shocked to learn that were true. I've never seen that, but I tend to work with smaller shops and startups that haven't seemed to care.
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by fecak 13y ago
I never want a full 'traditional' cover letter as they always tend to be stiff due to the format ("Dear Hiring Manager" and formality), but I'd like a few sentences with the resume submission that say why you are in
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by fecak 13y ago
Not abrasive - seemed like a fair comment to me. When you read enough resumes, you'll notice these problems of redundancy and spacing issues. Seeing a document that is long just gives that immediate negative impression that is sometim
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by fecak 13y ago
These are good points. Would you rather write a document that is one page and will be viewed carefully, or a 3 page document that will be scanned? It seems a pretty easy decision, but generally screeners will want to spend the same amoun
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by fecak 13y ago
After 20 years of work, 2 pages is great. But you're still listing GPA? Agreed on some of the buzzword inclusion that comes across as blatant pandering. I've also started seeing buzzwords in bold, which hopefully does not become
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by fecak 13y ago
Really sound advice here. Let the code talk for you when possible and keeping the education short will eliminate several lines for some. Older engineers that list jobs from 20+ years ago often provide too much unnecessary detail on those
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by fecak 13y ago
Author here. I'm perfectly willing to give something a fair judgment, and although I didn't include this in the article, I'm actually scheduled to speak with the person with the 23 bullet summary and 4 sentences on Google. T
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Why is it important to have a shorter résumé?(jobtipsforgeeks.com)
34 points by fecak 13y ago|71 comments
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by fecak 13y ago
I even think 3-5 years can be a good duration if your company is doing interesting things and moving you around a bit. Multiple 2 year stints could start to scare some people, but I definitely feel that someone with five 2 year stints coul
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by fecak 13y ago
Recruiter here, and the first thing to consider is that to actually be called a job hopper, you must be pretty good at getting hired. Otherwise, you'd be called unemployed. People define job hopping different ways, and the tenure matt
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by fecak 13y ago
NYC Full-time hires - DramaFever http://www.dramafever.com/company/#/careers DramaFever is a young, ambitious and rapidly growing online video start-up that specializes in international entertainment. The company
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by fecak 13y ago
Companies vary greatly regarding willingness to grant unpaid vacation time on top of the vacation provided. The reason against unpaid vacation is there is work to be done, and theoretically if everyone took some unpaid vacation they'd
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by fecak 13y ago
If you read the comments in the post, the company employees are saying that the majority of the people in trial week are from out of the area. This changes the story quite a bit. If I were to offer you a position in a different city, you&
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by fecak 13y ago
> Also, since a majority of our team is relocating from elsewhere, it's a big decision for them and it's turned out to be very valuable on their end as well. This wasn't addressed in the original article other than the men
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by fecak 13y ago
"Try-before-you-buy" has been around for years in the tech field, although usually it was done over a period of a few weeks or months versus just a few days. The concept is not new, but basing the hiring decision on a week is at
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by fecak 13y ago
Recruiter here. Looking for a job while unemployed reduces your leverage and to at least some degree can potentially reduce how attractive you appear to an employer. If you have incredible skills it doesn't matter much, but having no
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by fecak 13y ago
If they are hiring 66% of people that go through "trial week", it appears as if the decision to hire was already fairly well established before the candidate had to endure trial week. No company would be bragging about a 66% hire
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by fecak 13y ago
That does make sense. The thing is, that 'minimal acceptable treatment' for all applicants for an internship, which could be in the thousands, is much more costly than for the 20-50 applicants for a more senior position. When I po
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by fecak 13y ago
Let's take a step back. This article is about notifying rejected candidates. You made some sort of claim that you felt unimportant, and you were an 'applicant' - not even an intern, but someone who wanted an internship and di
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by fecak 13y ago
No argument with that, but I think most senior engineers would think twice if they felt they were getting the treatment they got as an intern. I think everyone should expect some level of respect, but it's naive to think the CTO is get
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by fecak 13y ago
"Interns are just as important as full time" in what sense exactly? Of course interns have a level of importance, but I think your overestimating some things here. If you were a senior level engineer, you may be more likely to g
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What Every CS Student Should Know About the First Job(jobtipsforgeeks.com)
1 points by fecak 13y ago|0 comments
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by fecak 13y ago
I'd disagree with that. In my area, the software dev population has just become segmented as different languages and tools became popular. When I started the JUG, there was an active Perl group and a Linux group but little else that dr
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by fecak 13y ago
To be clear, you were applying for an internship (as you said in your post), and now you write "seems like I wasn't important". I'm not sure how we are defining important, but there are tons of people that apply for inte

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