If I saw a 4 page resume it would go into recycling (you insensitive planet-killing clod!:-)).
Your references page doesn't count in the page count and it is unnecessary until the interview stage, but even three pages is too long for "not super experienced in IT". If I were a hiring manager, you would have maybe 10 seconds to catch my attention, and your relevant experience should be evident, and should be conveyed fairly succinctly. I have about 25 years in the field, 2 degrees, and a few pubs, and manage to cram everything into two pages, though I have had to abbreviate some of my early experience.
Also, HR generally doesn't know shit. They don't really care about the details of your work--they are checking off buzzwords, languages, frameworks, and so on. The first hurdle is getting past the HR filter to the hiring manager/team. (Disclaimer: I don't know much about HR programs.) The second hurdle is the phone screen interview. Impress them enough and you move to interview stage. If the company sucks, you may have to come in for a second or third interview. A few job cycles ago I interviewed, reasonably well I thought, at a company that asked me back for a 2nd interview. I didn't get the offer, and could not even get a call back from HR. (Translation: they probably sucked as a company.)
For my current position I think I interviewed for about 3 hours. They did a thorough job, hired me, and so far we are still on our "honeymoon"...
Well, by the time this happened she was already mentally checked out from Github.
As for the hoola hooping, I would consider it my obligation to be the one goofy dude hooping. Do it for Julie, of course. Please Julie, lift the restraining order. I promise to be every man you have ever wanted if you just leave what's-his-name and go out with me. Sincerely, Every Other Guy in the Office
I read this part and laughed/cried/smh... People are inherently unequal in ability, and as you note, the system is already striving to squash the gifted students. So the US may catch up in 10 or 20 years, if ever.
Guess I'd better hit the gym more... I don't hold out much hope for a future in the NFL or NBA anymore, but there's always professional wrestling, right?
Been there. Done that. Got five boxes of unused business cards to prove it.
It would be cool if you could trade old cards for something, like oh I dunno.. chocolate. I guess starting small fires is about all they are good for anymore. Sniff.
So I'm here in my cube wondering how to reach escape velocity. I could maybe do a thing a quarter or maybe a thing a month though, and have a decent set within a year.
What are the best first steps and what was your greatest challenge in leaving the day job?
People who get regular sex are happier and more productive.
It's a health care issue and should be mandated the employer pays for whores.
On the other hand, many people object to prostitution, so their response would be an extremely nonlinear decrease in happiness and productivity. I think companies should not take that risk.
So you are advocating sex with coworkers instead? It kind of sucks that I missed out on all the "free love" 60's stuff, but I guess I also missed out on all the free STDs as well.
Since rebhabilitation doesn't work, prisoners should simply be drugged into submission and stored. They should not be able to form associations which facilitate their control of prison facilities. Reduce their calorie intake so they cannot resist. Break them, break them, break them.
Prisoners are the enemy. We have the technology to break people utterly, and to kill those who resist if they are inconvenenient. Prisons should be so terrifying that their threat compels submission to law.
Not because we are bored. Because the war has already started on the Russian side, and all the Ukraine is doing now is losing. There is no way to avoid the war any longer. The invasion has happened. The only question is when Ukraine is going to fight -- when it can be confined to Crimea and the east, or when they are fighting an existential fight in the west?
I'm guessing you are not in the military. This isn't CoD. No sanctions have even been enacted yet. You can bet military planners are planning and war gaming as always, but who is going to fight this war? Are you signing up?
I've seen demos (albeit on TV documentations) of dogs having been trained for cancer detection. While I can see it might be a boon in third world countries, where folks tend not be to as uptight as most are on this side of the pond, I don't see it catching on in the U.S. I just can't imagine folks laying on a table (the kind where each arm and leg is supported separately) in their skivvies and letting Toto go for a bit of a walk while he sniffs your wobbly bits.
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Now if you'll excuse me, I must get back to cooking up my results... statistical significance my ass!
The bigger problem is the (almost) no one cares about taking pride in being a _excellent_ programmer.
Alas, grammar too is a lost art. ;-)
... that's my "O face". Siri, hand me a tissue.
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"In the future, women will have breasts all over." - David Byrne
Your references page doesn't count in the page count and it is unnecessary until the interview stage, but even three pages is too long for "not super experienced in IT". If I were a hiring manager, you would have maybe 10 seconds to catch my attention, and your relevant experience should be evident, and should be conveyed fairly succinctly. I have about 25 years in the field, 2 degrees, and a few pubs, and manage to cram everything into two pages, though I have had to abbreviate some of my early experience.
Also, HR generally doesn't know shit. They don't really care about the details of your work--they are checking off buzzwords, languages, frameworks, and so on. The first hurdle is getting past the HR filter to the hiring manager/team. (Disclaimer: I don't know much about HR programs.) The second hurdle is the phone screen interview. Impress them enough and you move to interview stage. If the company sucks, you may have to come in for a second or third interview. A few job cycles ago I interviewed, reasonably well I thought, at a company that asked me back for a 2nd interview. I didn't get the offer, and could not even get a call back from HR. (Translation: they probably sucked as a company.)
For my current position I think I interviewed for about 3 hours. They did a thorough job, hired me, and so far we are still on our "honeymoon"...
In Soviet ISS airlock deports you!
As for the hoola hooping, I would consider it my obligation to be the one goofy dude hooping. Do it for Julie, of course. Please Julie, lift the restraining order. I promise to be every man you have ever wanted if you just leave what's-his-name and go out with me. Sincerely, Every Other Guy in the Office
It wasn't me. Just sayin'.
I read this part and laughed/cried/smh... People are inherently unequal in ability, and as you note, the system is already striving to squash the gifted students. So the US may catch up in 10 or 20 years, if ever.
Guess I'd better hit the gym more... I don't hold out much hope for a future in the NFL or NBA anymore, but there's always professional wrestling, right?
Been there. Done that. Got five boxes of unused business cards to prove it.
It would be cool if you could trade old cards for something, like oh I dunno.. chocolate. I guess starting small fires is about all they are good for anymore. Sniff.
Women dig geeks now.
.. just waiting for that cell to ring.
See also: this start-up is gonna rock! We'll all be zillionaires!
What is your approximate breakdown of revenue annually (i.e. % from digital downloads, CDs, live shows, royalties)? How has it changed over the years?
What are the best first steps and what was your greatest challenge in leaving the day job?
(Yes, I know, two questions. Sue me.)
English is the best language.
There are other languages than 'Merican?
After a while they all seem to blend into sameness... interrupted by very exciting commercials.
^-- This. What did we ever do without Siri? .. and her monotonous sounding Android cousin?
For the record, NCIS is probably the show I hate most of all, but then again I don't watch much crap TV if I can help it.
Litterisy is importint.
People who get regular sex are happier and more productive.
It's a health care issue and should be mandated the employer pays for whores.
On the other hand, many people object to prostitution, so their response would be an extremely nonlinear decrease in happiness and productivity. I think companies should not take that risk.
So you are advocating sex with coworkers instead? It kind of sucks that I missed out on all the "free love" 60's stuff, but I guess I also missed out on all the free STDs as well.
Well at least we have Time Warner Cable and not Comcast! Dodged that bullet. Oh.. wait... http://www.reuters.com/article...
Since rebhabilitation doesn't work, prisoners should simply be drugged into submission and stored. They should not be able to form associations which facilitate their control of prison facilities. Reduce their calorie intake so they cannot resist. Break them, break them, break them.
Prisoners are the enemy. We have the technology to break people utterly, and to kill those who resist if they are inconvenenient. Prisons should be so terrifying that their threat compels submission to law.
You must be really fun at parties...
Not because we are bored. Because the war has already started on the Russian side, and all the Ukraine is doing now is losing. There is no way to avoid the war any longer. The invasion has happened. The only question is when Ukraine is going to fight -- when it can be confined to Crimea and the east, or when they are fighting an existential fight in the west?
I'm guessing you are not in the military. This isn't CoD. No sanctions have even been enacted yet. You can bet military planners are planning and war gaming as always, but who is going to fight this war? Are you signing up?
I've seen demos (albeit on TV documentations) of dogs having been trained for cancer detection. While I can see it might be a boon in third world countries, where folks tend not be to as uptight as most are on this side of the pond, I don't see it catching on in the U.S. I just can't imagine folks laying on a table (the kind where each arm and leg is supported separately) in their skivvies and letting Toto go for a bit of a walk while he sniffs your wobbly bits.
Well, at least Toto has a good bedside manner.