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1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2018 15:25:59 EST tekk
   For real though I'm pretty sure that applying for jobs is useless. I've been seriously applying for jobs since mid december, applying on and off since september when I was finishing school. From me actually applying I've only heard back from one company who wanted me to retake the SAT on their website and included several portions of the test which, as far as I can tell, are made to exclude people with dyslexia, which kinda turned me off.
   1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2018 15:29:56 EST tekk

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      I have, however, gotten quite a few hits from recruiters just from having a profile that exists on dice. At least with that I know that the company's not dismissing me out of hand and have someone to reach out to to ask if I've just been dropped, not a form email 2 months after I apply saying that they've passed me over, if that.
   2. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2018 15:31:40 EST Annah

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      @tekk If there's anything I learned when I was doing recruiting myself, to speak from the other perspective, it's that trying to find the people you're actually looking for is difficult.  You'll often get people from different skill backgrounds than you need or that you're otherwise not interested in.  When I was running my team back in the day for programming we'd get all kinds of the hip and trendy web UI people apply for positions on our team when we were looking for people whom knew how to hack on low-level hardware and essentially to be able to reverse engineer stuff, which is a different skillset.
      
      The problem that compounds this tremendously in corporate environments too is that HR often sanitises results to appear non-discriminatory in any fashion whatsoever when at the we DO actually want to discriminate on "who we think is best for the job."
      1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2018 15:34:01 EST Annah

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         @tekk The best advice I can give is not to give up hope, and to limit how much you chase after particular jobs that are unresponsive.  The former is obvious, the latter is a really easy trap to fall into, sinking a bunch of time into an application that goes nowheres.  But ultimately at least in the programming world, we were usually just as happy as the prospectives were to get connected with them, so if you keep going it'll likely end up rewarding you with a career rather than just a job.  At least when it comes to programming.  Don't settle.  Settling for something that makes you unhappy just to make that money might pay the bills but you'll regret it in the long run.  I know I sure did with my first gig.
         1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2018 15:47:47 EST tekk

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            @maiyannah On one hand yeah, on the other, and maybe this is just totally on me, my student loans need to get paid. Considering how my record is so far if I'm being honest I'll probably take the first job I get, and I know full well that it'll be way less than I'm worth.
            1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2018 16:00:31 EST Annah

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               @tekk If you're going to settle I'd suggest something in service where you're just going to be some cog in the machine.  They're not going to miss you when you inevitably do find a job you like.  But that's just my 2c