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Re:How engineers can stand out from the applicant pool by bigiain on Thursday April 19, 2018 @10:59PM (#16881859)
I think this is part of what the advice is trying to say.

The noise looks like noise. It's the guys who say "Sup babe?" to every girl on dating-app-de-jour.

Standing out from the noise isn't hard. But it does mean at least writing a cover letter for each job app that shows you've done more than just copy/paste your generic details and cv into every role on $jobSite's new listing page this morning before you left for work.

Saying "Hey, I see you like live music, wanna go see $coolBand next Thursday? Oh, and I really like your hair in your 3rd pic :-)" isn't gonna "win you the girl", but it's going to be much less likely it be insta-deleted than "Sup babe?" sent to everyone.

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Re:How engineers can stand out from the applicant pool by Double_a_92 on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:49AM (#16882655)
Btw dude, those girls on dating sites are not going to even read the text. They just look at your image while scrolling...

"Sub babe?" instantly works of you have a hot pic in your profile.

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