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Re:Ask HN: Where to Work After 40? by withinboredom on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:14AM (#42574120)
If you've ever run a company, you know how bad people's CVs can be and what you need to do to stand out. I recommend it to everyone. I would get 15-20 CVs for a small company, and I didn't even closely look at 10-15 of them because it was clear people were just writing random shit or applying without even looking at what we wanted.

I suspect it is a similar ratio for any software company.

Re:Ask HN: Where to Work After 40? by e-brake on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:37AM (#42574281)
Second this, try to stand out in some way. I mostly receive floods of terrible resumes, spam and obvious LLM generated text.

The worst hire I made also had university credentials and apparently wasn't educated in how to deliver anything but academic noodling.