Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Seems you need to have a LinkedIn account in order to read it, but it’s pretty interesting.
Those of us who have this problem, have a problem with time. Our work history is trouble, because the work history, when you get right down to it, is what it looks like when you’re building something that actually works. There are many pieces to it and all of them have to be serviced by someone who either knows what he’s doing, or at least knows how to figure out what he’s doing.
We’re tapped to do what is necessary because we’ve earned trust here. At the end of it all, hopefully some deadlines are met and things get shipped…but, we’re not “C# guys” or “SQL guys,” any more than the guy who pilots a sailboat from Seattle to San Francisco is any sort of a “rope guy.”
Tailoring the resume to the position makes a lot of sense in theory, but in practice it feels like lying. And it looks like it too, that’s where the problem with time comes in. Because we have to get something actually working so that some bigger thing gets fixed and becomes operational, we’re not just heading down a bunny trail for an hour or two one isolated summer afternoon; we keep at it, as long as the pay is right and as long as it remains our optimal direction of positive contribution to the organization. That’s many years at a time.
It’s frustrating talking to recruiters who tell us to filter the resume. They’d end up getting back a resume chock full of holes, then of course they’d complain about the holes. From skimming over the comments, I see it isn’t just me.
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“Tailoring the resume to the position makes a lot of sense in theory, but in practice it feels like lying”
The problem is that this is a requirement, not a suggestion. The resume scanning software not has a picklist of keywords the resume(s) must have to even be seen. I’ve been contracting for over a decade now and they now screen so tightly that I don’t get calls for jobs I apply for that are EXACTLY what I do. About a month after that, a recruiter will call me about that very position they were unable to find candidate for using their own HR department. Second, I’ve been to the government job fairs and they tell me to go on USAJOBS.GOV and then find the reference number for the job req and look on the OPM website and look for keywords there because you need most of them to get through the filters.
This is not fun. This is not smart or productive.
- Duffy | 10/20/2014 @ 08:51