[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago

So I've gotten pretty good at applying for jobs having moved quite a bit and needing to change a few times in the past decade. Here's my unsolicited advice for people getting sick of the application process (it sucks I know):

  • Make sure your resume can be easily OCR'd. OCR, or optical character recognition, is how programs and machines convert image-formatted text into plain text. Sometimes it works pretty well, and sometimes it spits out a garbled mess of text. If you've ever done an application that auto-fills fields after you upload your resume, you probably have a good idea how readable your resume is by a computer. Like it or not, the first step for a lot of companies is to filter by OCR converted text fields, and if yours isn't legible, you may be out of luck. Use a simple, consistent font and don't do any special formatting. If you want a second "fancier" printed version of your resume for interviews, go for it.

  • Fit your resume to a single page and highlight your skills at the top. You can change these from application to application if you want, and if you do, I suggest using verbiage from the job description because these are the keywords they'll be looking for.

  • You'll probably see a few jobs that really seem like a great fit for companies you really want to work for. CALL THESE COMPANIES. Trust me, employers don't love the hiring process either, and if they're actively trying to fill a role and they get a call from someone interested, they'll probably respond. They may just politely tell you to follow the standard process, but that's really the worst case scenario. And even if they do, they'll probably keep an eye out for your application.

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago

It's fucked up that it takes this kind of outrage to get animal abuse charges against this guy. Laws exist in nearly every state that can bring felony charges for this kind of thing, but animal abusers are so rarely charged, let alone convicted.

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago

If Lemmy has taught me anything this is a Linux user's dream because now they can install Linux on the machine.

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 51 points 3 months ago

This article is giving me 2016 "don't worry about it" vibes.

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago

"Hey nice time machine, wanna go to Stephen Hawking's time traveller party?"

"Naw, I heard that shit was lame and nobody showed up. Let's go shoot JFK again."

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 57 points 4 months ago

Just picture this man staring at himself in the mirror, chuckling silently as he imagines kissing himself, then pulling out his phone to tweet this...five goddamn times.

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 50 points 4 months ago

Neil deGrasse Tyson not saying something stupid on the internet challenge: impossible. https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dmkgz/neil-degrasse-tysons-tweets-are-so-bad-and-he-needs-to-go-away

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago

My gravestone will read "Finally went carbon neutral!"

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 63 points 4 months ago

Damn, this gives me an idea for a PC: Raz is a novice dunamancer who believes he has the worst luck in the world until he realizes that his wealthy and successful alternate self has been manipulating fate to always be in HIS favor instead. Now the only thing Raz wants is to find and kill his other self and take back what fate owes him.

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 55 points 6 months ago

My <2 year old scared the shit out of me when he started doing voices for his stuffed animals. Nothing gets you out of bed faster than hearing your kid say over the baby monitor, "night night," and then a different voice say, "night night baby."

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