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by fecak 10y ago
Most of my responses do mention that they did so because of the attention to detail in the message. Even the ones that are well-crafted still don't get much response. I envision that they're deleted by most people unless they are
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by fecak 10y ago
Being an agency recruiter in 2017 is becoming impossible in that fewer and fewer people are even willing to talk to you, which is one reason I've diversified into resumes and coaching. I have almost 20 years in the industry, led a larg
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by fecak 10y ago
The problem is that perhaps 75% of the people who say it are incorrect. There are a handful of trite items on a high percentage of resumes (team player, communicator, able to work in high pressure, etc.) that are virtually ignored - nobody
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by fecak 10y ago
We all understand that it's often highly complex if not impossible for most devs to quantify an accomplishment. It's easy for some things to be quantified obviously - downloads, traction - though those aren't exclusive to eng
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by fecak 10y ago
Measuring accomplishments for OP isn't likely to be easy, but for more senior candidates that's the ideal situation. You're correct about generalizing duties and skills. Bullet points on resumes that talk about non-specific d
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by fecak 10y ago
The biggest thing with projects is that they're 'finished'. Most young devs have 20 sloppy repos or apps/sites with incomplete functionality that sends the message that the person is not able to finish something. Of cour
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by fecak 10y ago
I write resumes and coach job seekers who have difficulty in finding work or navigating career issues (my HN profile has links). My background includes nearly 20 years in recruiting for east coast startups. You have a few things going &#x27
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by fecak 10y ago
My email is in my profile, feel free to send me what you've got and I'll take a look (you may not need resume help at all, so don't order anything).
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by fecak 10y ago
This could be a number of things. For context, I've been in recruiting for ~20 years (mostly software startups) and I also write resumes and consult/coach job seekers on a number of topics. Getting rejected without getting to the
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I Can't Ask Your Salary History? Thanks(jobtipsforgeeks.com)
3 points by fecak 10y ago|0 comments
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by fecak 10y ago
Recruiter and resume writer here. I'm at least somewhat surprised, and I assume his resume had references to his PR campaign, and I'd think that in itself (along with the somewhat limited qualifications he seems to have) would at
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by fecak 10y ago
To me, intellectual curiosity is basically "learning for the sake of learning". In other words, picking up a skill or researching a topic that interests you without having a real need to apply said skil/knowledge professional
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by fecak 10y ago
> I don't think curiosity diminishes with age, even if the ability to explore that curiosity may. Anecdotally I'd assume that intellectual curiosity often increases with age, although that might be attributed to the availabil
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by fecak 10y ago
I think my words may have been clumsy. My reference to "tech outside their job" was meant more about having relevant skills to a current job market (marketability), not the interview itself.
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by fecak 10y ago
What you do at your job during the day is usually imposed on the employee. Few employees get to choose the languages, tools, etc. that their company uses, so their interests aren't always relevant to their day jobs. Your reading list o
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by fecak 10y ago
I see this pattern time and time again in both my recruiting work and in my resume business. Someone gets a rather non-challenging job that pays market rate or better, starts a family, pays little attention to any tech outside their day job
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by fecak 10y ago
Thanks for writing this Aline. As a recruiter for almost 20 years, I wish I had access to all my data and then the time to compile it, and anecdotally I'd expect the finding about MOOCs would be similar. The most selective of my hiring
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by fecak 10y ago
18 year agency recruiter here. The problem with most recruiters today is that they are so concerned with controlling the process that they get in the way of letting two adults have a dialogue, and the recruiting industry is inundated with j
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Soft Skills on Technical Resumes(jobtipsforgeeks.com)
2 points by fecak 10y ago|0 comments
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by fecak 10y ago
Show them how to do it themselves, and teach them "why" I do things the way I do them. I write resumes for clients and do them in Google Docs, and I invite the client into the doc from the very start. They can actually watch (in r
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by fecak 10y ago
I think you're confusing tech recruiters with those who recruit students for bootcamps. The ITT recruiters are aggressive in getting students into the program. You are referencing agency recruiters (or perhaps internal recruiters at co
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by fecak 10y ago
Understood. Hopefully the for-profit model can still co-exist with some decency when it comes to wooing students.
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by fecak 10y ago
>The rule set out in the ITT training materials instructs recruiters to call "a minimum of three times a day for the first three days." This was known as the 3x3 rule. That is bordering on harassment by most standards. Taking a
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by fecak 10y ago
Seconded. I always write a summary even though many writers don't, and my emphasis on summaries is also to define my client before a junior recruiter or inexperienced screener does it incorrectly on their own.
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by fecak 10y ago
I was hoping not to seem pedantic on this, but it's potentially a key detail to a reader and I wouldn't want anyone to think they have 5 minutes to make an impression when the reality is much closer to 5 seconds to make an immedia
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by fecak 10y ago
Resume writer and ~20 year tech recruiter here. Just a comment to readers about the author's estimate that your resume is being reviewed for 5 minutes. It's not, so be sure not to write your resume as if it is going to get that
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by fecak 10y ago
Tech recruiter here. 85K even seems like an outlier to me for a bootcamp graduate unless you had lots of other credibility that came along with the bootcamp experience. I don't think I could get 85K for a new bootcamp grad in Philly, w
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Google Worship Gone Too Far(jobtipsforgeeks.com)
2 points by fecak 10y ago|0 comments
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by fecak 10y ago
>Unfortunately, a lot of younger workers are paid lower than less skilled, but older workers simply because of lack of seniority and/or negotiating skills. I'd say that younger workers were exploited a bit historically because
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by fecak 10y ago
I'm not quite sure I follow - how is ageism leading someone to leave?

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