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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by Gustomaximus on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:02AM (#9105381)
To play devils advocate, Linkedin is professional profile site. Personally I would not put a photo of myself holding a drink for this reason and agree or not, its reasonable to expect people wont like this. If someone said the same cause they saw a Facebook picture of you holding a beer then I would be in absolute agreement.
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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by oalders on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:20AM (#9105426)
On a whim, I recently updated my LinkedIn picture to a photo of myself in a multi-coloured clown wig. This put an immediate end to all messages from recruiters.
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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by adamnemecek on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:31AM (#9105449)
just wait until the circus recruiters get a whiff of your profile
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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by raverbashing on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @05:29AM (#9106126)
Don't worry, they will come back

They only grep the CVs for words, if you put you're a lion tamer, archeologist, but has the word PHP in your CV (or something similar) you'll get a flood of IT jobs

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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by mgcross on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @09:25PM (#9110969)
Yep. A good while ago, I added T-shirts, short hair, fig newtons, beer, speeding and disorderly conduct to my list of skills. Doesn't matter.
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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by squiguy7 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:46PM (#9108168)
Here is the evidence: https://twitter.com/wundercounter/status/570454045099307008
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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by oalders on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:55PM (#9109113)
That's amazing. I was going to post that here as a follow-up, but you beat me to it. :)
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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by nihonjon on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @01:00AM (#9105503)
That says authenticity. You're thought leader material now!
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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by saryant on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:48AM (#9105750)
I once worked for a design agency that was building the website of a major super PAC run by the son of a governor that most people on HN probably despise. I was tasked with turning the designer's PSDs into a Wordpress site and one section was bios of all the officers.

My contact at the client gathered up all the photos and bios and emailed them to me. Maybe 25% of the photos were professional headshots. The majority were just crappy cell phone pictures.

The rest were people at parties holding a beer. I emailed my contact to make sure he wanted me to use these and he told me to go ahead. Sure enough, a day after we went live I get a pissed-off call from him demanding to know why I used those photos.

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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by grecy on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:28AM (#9105444)
Where do you draw the line? is it OK for me to have a shaggy beard? How about long hair? Tattoos?

My personality is my personality, and when you hire me you're going to get the whole thing. If you can't handle it, I rather you don't even talk to me in the first place.

I look forward to a future where nobody cares about this stuff.

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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by Miserlou57 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:42AM (#9105469)
One should note that Apple has basically no dress code, at all. Sandals, dreads, etc. and it has a history of this culture.
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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by driverdan on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:29PM (#9108039)
If your personality needs beer to work then it has a problem. LinkedIn is for business, not partying.
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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by s73v3r on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:39PM (#9108114)
Shaggy beard, long hair, and tattoos are part of what's going to be at the job. You're not going to be drinking beer on the job.
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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by Miserlou57 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @01:00AM (#9105502)
I was more surprised that after four successful interviews, my poor web-presence was enough to nullify that success.
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