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A résumé just isn't worth the effort. Do the minimum and be done with it.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: A résumé just isn't worth the effort.
Aw, they're great to make a pre-selection.
Correct address? If no, into the bucket it goes.
Comic Sans? -> into the bucket
More than four pages? -> into the bucket
More than four colors? -> into the bucket
And yes, if you have to work through a hundred of them, you'd be rewarding the minimalistic style most.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That is exactly what I was describing above. Good "resume" 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I haven't needed a CV in ages, but I note on mine that I'm a beer enthusiast ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Try putting * on easter eggs.
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What's an easter egg like in a resume?
Not the picture of the MS Excel team by chance?
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What sort of easter egg do you have in mind? And what is IPoAC? Does it have to do with birds?[^]
My "easter eggs" are 167 articles on CP, #1 author by article count, and 2 e-books (one pending, where is it anyways!!!)
And I'm still asked moronic interview questions (like, "what's your greatest weakness and what are you doing about it" to which, then next time I'm asked that, the answer will be "going through this interview and to fix that I'm hanging up on you -- CLICK) and requested to take idiotic tests in C#, .NET and SQL Server knowledge. Some of those questions are absurd.
The whole interview process so sucks nowadays. The people doing the interview don't even bother researching who the person is on the resume.
Marc
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Yes, I'm referring to IP over Avian Carrier. I hope that they just think I'm trying to drop jargon, and actually read RFC 2549 or at least find the Wikipedia article. The RFC is a cute read if you don't mind puns. If they ask I can mention that I'm trying to teach the protocol to my finches, but for far have a 100% drop(ping) rate.
I agree -- I always do my homework about the company I am interviewing for, and if they are serious about hiring me, I hope they at least google me, which will lead them to my CP articles.
And then there are the tests.
I don't have a CS degree, and I don't have all of the big O notation optimizations memorized, but I do have 25+ years of experience and will gladly answer anything pragmatic.
I do use tests when hiring, but they are easy and are meant to screen out the BSers before they get an interview.
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 That's because you didn't specify you have experience in:
IPoAVwQS ~ where "wQS" is with Quality of Service
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I must admit that I never heard of IPoAC before and had to go look for it, but I think it's hilarious, yet makes you think. 
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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I have an Easter Egg on my Linked-in profile. It's an encrypted message(string of apparent garbage).
Nobody has told me they cracked it yet, but I have been approached by certain people of a Cheltenham disposition trying to offer me a job.
As I would hate going through the DV process I turned them down. Besides, they are far too naughty.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvGHIW3GQv8[^]
As for interviews, when I was doing them I took a netbook running Linux with a selection of Mono C# demo projects including face-detection and capture and simple encryption.
It seemed to help with serious players. 
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It is funny, and the beauty is that due to the design of OPI layers, the air (layer 1) and birds (layer 2) are technically as valid as any other protocol, albeit with a very high error rate.
RFC 2549[^] updates the protocol with a QoS component.
As a layer 2 protocol it does not require any changes for IPv6.
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That only gets a response if you apply for jobs in Europe or Africa.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't have a resume or a CV and I don't think that I ever had one.
Guess this comes from working for the same company for so long.
Easter eggs is something that I have always done though.
Everything that I have written has Easter eggs within.
Always have done and always will do.
Oh and by the way wtf is IPoAC?
Oh yeah and if I get retrenched, sacked or something I might need your help with a resume/CV with Easter eggs.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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 Thanks for the explanation.
I would have never guessed.
Pigeon English would be a suitable language for addressing IPoAC issues then I guess.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I've seriously considered putting something like the resumes I have posted at job boards:
"Please include the word "asparagus"* in the subject line to show that you've actually read my resume. If you do that, I guarantee a reply."
Then if I get an unsolicited email about a job and it doesn't contain the word "asparagus" in the subject I know it's probably not worth reading.
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I'm rather partial to chocolate myself.
I went semi-retired a few years ago and only do word of mouth now. Even before doing that, I skinnied my resume to a single page letter of some three paragraphs with about five bullets in it. The resume I did use when I got a response left out the first 10 years or so, but was always tailored to the respondent. Why do that when five minutes of letter tailoring works.
Ultimately, word of mouth is best, though. Let someone else supply the donuts.
RSW
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Barely Believable Comments
Blatantly Biased Content
Let me add that, now that I've have 'cut the cable' (several weeks, now) I get to see news from all over the world at my beck-and-call.
Skynews: Very often beneath contempt
CCTV: Surprisingly fair (except when it involves China, directly)
CNN: Reaching for the bottom as a vocation (Wolf Blitzer is major A$$)
Most commonly, it is lies created by obvious omission(s).
Then . . . I see the sponsors (CNN), and targeted major audiences (BBC) and I realize it's really the best news money can buy.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You think that the BBC is bad? LOL, I watch BBC World News because it's the least obnoxious news channel in the US 
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But, much as presentation appears professional, there 'agenda' make them disgusting.
It's a matter of form vs. substance. Ultimately, I watch news for substance.
Here's one that really galled me: in Gaza (where the BBC agenda was in full force). A man was picking through the rubble of his home. A shot rang out and he fell dead. The reporter immediately said 'it must have been an Israeli sniper' without least least shred of evidence or investigation. And there was a war going on - yet, on the BBC streams, virtually the only time one saw Hamas armed was via video produced by Hamas, themselves. Images of toys in rubble - but they were clean toys. Dust and debris everywhere, yet no one thought to question this? Or analysis: did it not occur to anyone that if 70% of the civilian casualties were youngish men that many might not be civilian casualties? Take away the gun and a street-fighter becomes a civilian. And apparently there are many a video of Hamas executing people in the streets - but only on YouTube (google: gaza excutions video). Why were these neither shown nor mentioned by BBC/Sky/CNN/CBS/NBC/Newsy/CCTV/CBS/ad nauseum? Wasn't newsworthy enough? Ditto for (google: gaza reporter intimidation). The latter should be headline news!
The latter, in fact, is the principal (on the narrow slice I chose, Gaza), for demonstration purposes. What could possibly be more offensive to a reputable news organization than having its news reporting censored via fear, intimidation, and violence?
Perhaps, with the New European Demographic, they're just plain afraid?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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They're all biased, they all have agendas, all the major news outlets respond to corporate and government pressure.
The closest I've seen to a truly independent take on the news is The Young Turks, and they didn't last long on cable. And of course they are biased too, the difference being that it's their own biases rather than that of their sponsors.
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StatementTerminator wrote: They're all biased, they all have agendas, all the major news outlets respond to corporate and government pressure.
Try the No Agenda Show[^], with John C. Dvorak (long-time tech columnist) and Adam Curry of late 80s MTV fame. They started their podcast in response to exactly what you're saying, and don't take sponsorship of any kind except for their own listeners.
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
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