• ArmedHostage [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Redditors have been talking about how hard it is to get a job on /r/dataisbeautiful. Quite a few people have been saying stuff like "I applied to 300 to 400 places before I got an offer", one poor soul has been looking for years and estimates they probably have sent easily over 1000 resumes and got 2-3 interviews. Brain dead PMC types are saying that that can't be possible and something must be wrong with their resume or something, lol.

    • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      A lot of it can be luck, a lot can be that people aren't taught to write resumes or one of the 100 other small things that turn away recruiters.

      I do think its sorta funny that on /r/dataisbeautiful someone can be like "okay dude 1000 resumes is a statistical anomaly"

      I interviewed a guy today who's resume was messy to say the least. Vague experience, bad capitalization, unclosed parenthesis. Just silly stuff I've trained myself to look for for mine and resumes I look at for friends. When I finally interviewed him, he had some of the most creative solutions to problems I've seen in a while, in depth knowledge, communicated well, etc.

      So much emphasis is put on the dumb resume because its used as a terrible filter. I'm sure other companies would overlook this guy but they'd honestly miss out on someone incredibly smart and talented.

      All that said, its insane how many resumes people will send out, and its awful that tech workers need to bring work home with them in order to find a job. The culture around hiring is awful and recruiters need to be trained to overlook the BS so people can get jobs. Nice resumes rarely indicate the type of employee.

      • vanityfairz [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I'm always wondering if the size 2 font white word dump on resumes works, just adding in non-visible shit like "team player", "goal oriented"

        • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It might work for bigger companies that automate the resume digestion. At my company it doesn't and if one of the engineers who interview you happen to highlight the white text, 50/50 chance we'd laugh or be annoyed.

    • Brown_Pelican [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      PMC's will have a connection or have a job fall into their lap and think that applies across the board to everyone. i've had both instances happen to me where I've struggled for months looking for work, and also had some where i applied and was hired the next day. it's all roll of the dice.

      It seems the only way around that is if you know someone who gets you an in.