Going Beyond ‘Do You Know of Any Open Positions?’

Re:Going Beyond ‘Do You Know of Any Open Positions?’ by BeetleB on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:31PM (#36699512)

Double edged sword. In every job I've had, there's always been at least one coworker who makes a point of probing items on a person's resume - even if it is irrelevant to the current job. If the person doesn't have more than a bare minimum knowledge of the topic they claim to have experience in, it is an automatic disqualification.

A lot of people really don't like resume embellishers.

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Re:Going Beyond ‘Do You Know of Any Open Positions?’ by oytis on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:37PM (#36699631)

You don't have to put in your resume though. Still dubious strategy, because you might be getting more irrelevant positions advertised to you because of that

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Re:Going Beyond ‘Do You Know of Any Open Positions?’ by ilyt on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:57PM (#36699952)

We send a self assessment form (which is pretty much "here is list of techs we use, judge yourself on how good you are on them" before recruiting and ask candidates near-only of things they say they are good on the resume or that form.

Soooooooo many bullshiters

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Re:Going Beyond ‘Do You Know of Any Open Positions?’ by BeetleB on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @03:12PM (#36700158)

Do you make them type a number or is it free flowing text?

A scale of 1-5 is really not helpful. A 2 for me maybe a 3 for you, etc. I prefer being explicit and writing text to indicate what/how much I know.

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Re:Going Beyond ‘Do You Know of Any Open Positions?’ by bamfly on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @03:35PM (#36700456)

I list anything I've completed more than a tiny amount of paying work in. Maybe leaving something off if I think it'll hurt my chances, comp-negotiation, or get me shunted to shitty projects. Otherwise, if I got paid to do it, and shipped, it goes on the list.

However, I can barely "hello world" without mistakes or consulting references in any language I've gone more than a week without writing. So if I only listed languages & such that I'm ready to take a quiz over at any given moment, the list would always be very short. I'd miss a lot of job opportunities. Guessing that'd get me DQ'd from your process, but taking the alternative approach of only listing the very-small set of things I'm ready to work in right this second at any given time would surely have had very bad consequences for my career.

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