:)
― Fizzles, Saturday, 3 August 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
just stopped myself tweeting critical support for this excellent lady and her ways with a working day (since future employers can easily find my current twitter account):
immense respect for this bold attempt on the way out https://t.co/hTskm9OrJX pic.twitter.com/0i3LtmOWTc— Sigh Hersh (still a yianni d. fan) (@Ugarles) August 20, 2019
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure I understand what the issue is (uses company card to spread caviar onto Swarovski crystal-encrusted cracker).
― Amply Drizzled with Pure Luxury (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
lol writing yr own references is a poisoned chalice isn’t it?
how does the referee resist adding, right before their signature, “He wrote this all himself, about himself, and excepts me to sign it. WOT A DOUCHE!”
i mean it’s all true, i am in fact marvellous in every way, but i like to be winningly bashful about it
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
I joke itt because the job search processes described herein are basically a finely-rendered conception of my personal hell.
― McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
veering wildly today towards a new model: you the prestigious food emporium put up a job vacancy online, i don't want to do that but apply for it anyway, making clear in the cover letter that i will only accept the very different role i'm actually after
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
i am become the icarus of employment mendicancy
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
a good way to spot typos in old cover letters is to repurpose them via c&p, yes i did mean "mteiculous"
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
exactni sarntads
― j., Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
presented my standard CV to an "internet CV service" to comment on -- apparently i'm sending the message that i am a "doer" rather than an "achiever"
which rereading it is fair, esp.as i sent a version w/o the usual summary paragraph at the start
― mark s, Thursday, 12 September 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
how do they distinguish, mark? putting down skills rather than things you’ve done/problems solved/particular achievements etc?i did mine again recently with a manager and it took me four drafts - lot of it representing myself better than i perceive myself. painful but worth it.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 12 September 2019 09:15 (four years ago) link
i sent them the big wall of places i'd worked at and things i'd published, which is def.a bit non-explanatory -- esp.if i'm going for more "creative" things*, which i am now i got the book off my desk.
*i.e. not just part-time subbing posts, where "what achieved" = everything read well and was spelled correctly. my cover letters are much better at conveying this and are probably part of the CV i shd have sent them, but redrafting the CV to have difft versions, to point at specific types of application isn't a bad idea i don't think
― mark s, Thursday, 12 September 2019 09:19 (four years ago) link
doing cv cover letter right now for a job i dont want, have now convinced myself im the only possible candidate for and will be enraged when not shortlisted next week
rollercoaster of promotions
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 September 2019 10:03 (four years ago) link
i just ran the revised CV through a different "instant CV checker" websites (i can't go back to the first one w/o paying) and it tells me (among other things, some useful) that hiring software mainly indicates i am based in "information technology" lol (true but what a a to say it) plus i have had "34% exposure to engineering" wtf
― mark s, Monday, 14 October 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
i mean no wonder i am not getting responses to my work pitches but how do you game the machines when the machines are very dumb
― mark s, Monday, 14 October 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
write various keywords in white text so you get picked upproblem solved jk but apparently people do this...
― gyac, Monday, 14 October 2019 11:52 (four years ago) link
how do you game the machines when the machines are very dumb
you might have been able to figure this out if your exposure to engineering had reached 35%
― NEWS Giant penis frog didn’t have a giant penis after all (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 14 October 2019 11:58 (four years ago) link
the upshot of the above is that a friend (who often vets CVs and works in my microsector) finally got sick of my whining and took a look and gave me some excellent tips, so i now have a CV that does actually tell ppl what i can do and what i'm corrently looking for lol
ps i'm not running it through any more stupid machines
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
(the machines were good at noting i wasn't doing some things well, very bad at explaining how to make them better)
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link