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Thought I'd post what my resume looks like, with all the personal information redacted. It's probably not perfect, but it seems to be well received and I rarely don't receive a callback if I tenuously fit the job description. https://imgur.com/wcXZ2ms qhat fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Oct 7, 2018 |
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qhat posted:You've wasted a lot of white space at the top on your address. Shove it on to one line, or better yet, remove it entirely. They only really care about your email and phone number. It looks like you could definitely get this cleanly onto one page, rather than one and a quarter awkward pages. i was kinda wondering about that but hemmed toward tradition. But yeah with a couple extra lines and some language fuckery I should be able to get it down to 1 thanks for the feedback again y'all, i'll take another swing at it later today i reckon and send it to triplebyte etc before tomorrow
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- separate out the list of programming languages from the miscellaneous other. hiring managers are primarily concerned with "does this person have experience in the type of programming that we do", which starts with the language. - along those lines, add a summary statement at the top that says you have N years of experience and have done X and Y types of development - you don't need a fancy box. - reduce the size of the section headers. - this poo poo will fit on one page easily.
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Ciaphas posted:oooookay, as promised i just finished spending a few hours on resume and i think it's a lot better but i could use feedback on a couple things I'm just a board goon with a copy of indesign but I quickly mocked this up https://i.imgur.com/VNtXtur.png. qhat hast lots of good advice, the address could be shrunk down etc but I've always found that being bold with white space pays off. there is not point fitting masses of information on one page if it all just blurs into one. this test page is still a bit wall of text-y to my eyes but that can also be fixed by fiddling around with your sentences as others have suggested. pm me if you want the file etc
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i got down to one page with better language (i think...) and just striking my dumb first job since it's nothing really relevant except as a look-at-me, and figured i'd ask for one last bit of feedback also i did a draw  (feel like there's more fiddling with spacing i can do and the like but i'm kinda shrugging at this point) Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Oct 8, 2018 |
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Oct 8, 2018 02:13
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I know it sounds shallow but... I really don't like the font it clashes specially hard with the John Doe at the top
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i wasn't sure about that either so I'll probably just steal qhat's font choices if I'm honest not shallow at all, if it bugs the eye that's all the more incentive to pass it over sorry/thanks qhat? 
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for some reason at 2am the whim took me to go ahead and do the triplebyte signup and send my fixed up resume out, programming quiz included. said i did 'exceptionally well' despite a couple best guesses and four outright idk's out of 35 guess i'm talking to someone on hangouts this afternoon to see if they like me or not and want to send me on somewhere
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Achmed Jones posted:don’t lie or mislead, but don’t shy away from being like “yo I did a hard thing and did it well” yayuhh Ciaphas posted:for some reason at 2am the whim took me to go ahead and do the triplebyte signup and send my fixed up resume out, programming quiz included. said i did 'exceptionally well' despite a couple best guesses and four outright idk's out of 35 knock 'em dead, tiger
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and it turns out the awesome job at my current company that I thought I could apply for ended with HR sending me an email that can be summarized as "don't bother." welp, back to looking at other companies!
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Pendragon posted:and it turns out the awesome job at my current company that I thought I could apply for ended with HR sending me an email that can be summarized as "don't bother." yikes. is HR speaking for the hiring manager?
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based on multiple accounts, yes. I don't feel it was malicious, more of "we already got a lot of good candidates and you already have a strike against you being at a different office so v v".exact phrase was "set your expectations properly" which is pretty good business-speak.
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the only appropriate response to "set your expectations properly" is "go gently caress yourself"
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Pendragon posted:exact phrase was "set your expectations properly" which is pretty good business-speak.
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Diva Cupcake posted:that's not business-speak; that's transparently rear end in a top hat-speak.
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Ciaphas posted:i wasn't sure about that either so I'll probably just steal qhat's font choices if I'm honest The font is the latin modern sans font from LaTeX.
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Diva Cupcake posted:that's not business-speak; that's transparently rear end in a top hat-speak.
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Had that triplebyte phone interview Not sure I did great, I think I talked the talk ok but when it came to walking the walk I barely got halfway through both the new code (tic tac toe) and maintenance (buggy web scraper) timed tests :\ Guess we'll see in 48hrs but all that newfound confidence gonna leak like a sieve if this falls flat 
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don't sweat it too much, you're gonna have to burn at least a few interviews before you get good at it. interviewing is a learned skill.
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Can someone recommend a good data structures and algorithms refresher reference? Need to brush up on interviews 101.
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the first few chapters of the algorithm design manual by skienna is usually pretty good, and it contains a bit of exercises that are worded like trap interview questions
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Pendragon posted:based on multiple accounts, yes. I don't feel it was malicious, more of "we already got a lot of good candidates and you already have a strike against you being at a different office so v that's extremely strong gently caress-you language
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MononcQc posted:the first few chapters of the algorithm design manual by skienna is usually pretty good, and it contains a bit of exercises that are worded like trap interview questions seconded his lectures are on youtube too, if you want to watch the problems get worked through the Cormen algorithms book is also good when i need to see something explained in a different way. also do a bunch of hackerrank problems to figure out what topics you need to study most
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Captain Foo posted:that's extremely strong gently caress-you language yeah find a new job somewhere else holy poo poo
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Ciaphas posted:Had that triplebyte phone interview I thought their process was way over focused on challenges at the cost of properly getting to know a candidate so don't sweat it too much. They're very geared toward x10 types imo
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had a successful on-site with a profitable web company but they're a PHP shop and I reallly don't want to code PHP or have it on my resume for the future not really in a position to refuse them outright, I thought of telling them that I want to explore options further but that probably amounts to a refusal Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Oct 9, 2018 |
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jesus WEP posted:
“never ever get to take time off” or possibly “rear end in seat policy in place”
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im in the uk so idk if companies can implement the Unlimited Denied Vacation Requests policy that works so well in the states
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Protip for whenever you see something on the description that isn't clear: Ask them.
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jesus WEP posted:im in the uk so idk if companies can implement the Unlimited Denied Vacation Requests policy that works so well in the states this seems like a good place to start: https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights this employer might be more fygm so who knows what they'll want. I mean I've recently been fired for not fitting into the startup mentality (aka work 'till you drop, kiss rear end and praise working late and from home).
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some places actually mean this, apparently. just make sure at the on-site that you ask everyone you talk to about the last vacation they took and be prepared to bail if a majority of them don’t have good answers.
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remember that even if you do end up being able to take an appropriate amount of vacation, such a policy also means "you won't get paid out any accrued-but-unused vacation when you leave"
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Jabor posted:remember that even if you do end up being able to take an appropriate amount of vacation, such a policy also means "you won't get paid out any accrued-but-unused vacation when you leave" 1) they dont have to hand you a check for unused pto when you leave 2) people feel pressure to not be seen as "abusing" the system, they calibrate the threshold for abuse against their coworkers, the effect is a ratcheting down of people taking time off 3) the intentionally amorphous definitions of "getting your job done" and "abusing the system" give management an excuse to fire/downsize people in a way that makes it harder to sue for wrongful termination
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Jabor posted:remember that even if you do end up being able to take an appropriate amount of vacation, such a policy also means "you won't get paid out any accrued-but-unused vacation when you leave"
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AFAIK a few companies have experimented with completely unfixed working hours, i.e. come and go as you please. The result was that people actually spent more time in the office. I guess if I were cynic I'd say that these policies are designed to make people pressure each other into exploitation. Sort of the evil twin of a bohemian work/life balance.
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there's no need for fixed working hours anymore
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FMguru posted:yeah there are three aspects to the unlimited vacation scam the last time I had "unlimited vacation," it meant that my boss was gone four months a year, and i got one week at christmas
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jeffery posted:there's no need for fixed working hours anymore i would hate working with you
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the last time I had "unlimited vacation," it meant that my boss was gone four months a year, and i got one week at christmas this i can understand. a way around the federal requirement that all exempt employees receive the same benefits
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