They have concepts of a theory.

So do donors

Maybe yours doesn’t, but plenty do.

Source: have worked at multiple companies interviewing people who would have been promising candidates, but got bounced during the screening process.

There’s also a Dead Domain video, that goes into great detail of her other shenanigans, like lying about being a cis woman.

A while back on Lemmy, someone mentioned Hassan Piker. I finally got around to looking him up, today. What a wild read! Apparently he’s Cenk’s nephew.

I have never once been asked to provide a transcript. Literally never. I also don’t know anybody who has been asked to verify qualifications.

I’m sure it happens but it’s not the standard.

Can’t you fake a transcript? Like if they aren’t going to check then a fake authentic looking transcript should work right?

Background checks are usually outsourced to another company.

Listing your successes, metrics, and accomplishments will drive home your actual work duties and capabilities.

If you’re listing the following, you’ve failed in writing a solid entry to tell me that you’re a bugfix and data import wizard:

• Utilized Jira to fix bugs.
• Used company import tools to move data between systems.

Instead, you could write entries like:

• Took ownership and closed x bug tickets over y months which was z% over the organizational goal.
• Created and documented a Workflow to speed up the process of importing data by x%, making me the go to person for company data imports.

I’m not saying to lie or embellish either. I’m saying that you need to think about how you market your skills for sale as a service. If I’m looking for somebody with those skills, the latter two bullet points are going to stand out a far lot better than the former.

I live in the USA. I use the process I’ve described on my resume. I’ve also just landed a new job and started within the last month. When sending out resumes on my latest job search I had a 90% response rate, all for jobs I’d actually like to work at. The job I accepted was after the recruiter that reviewed my resume reached out to me to tell me the role I applied for had been filled but that they had another role that I’d be a fit for in the process of being written and wanted to get the ball rolling so I could be at the front of the interview process for it.

I’d say it’s “standard” because people were poorly trained on what to put on their resumes starting in high school and even college. I even used the “standard” before and struggled to land interviews early in my career. It wasn’t until about 15 years ago that I did a deep dive into resume writing and job searching techniques that I completely overhauled my resume and started actually getting call-backs/emails and interviews that would eventually wind up in landing jobs that I actually wanted.

Just because something is “standard” doesn’t mean it’s what we should be doing, or is the right way. The job market has changed over the years and ATSs reviewing resumes meant that people had to figure out how to get past those systems 20 years ago. As LLMs have been added to ATSs it’s only gotten harder to get past the initial gate with a resume drop.

A Kagi search for “resume accomplishments vs duties” will give you a plethora of sources discussing this from job seekers, HR professionals, recruiters, and even some university research.

The way I see it is that they’re looking to exploit me for as much as they can get, so I have no obligation to treat them with any more respect than that. I don’t lie, but I have no problem taking a single instance where I worked next to a couple newbies for an hour and gave them pointers and turning it into “trained and oversaw new hires to ensure proper workflow protocol” on my resume.

I make higher than the median salary working at a factory. I left a job that required a college degree and professional licence that payed less than what I do now. Higher education requirements doesn’t always mean higher pay. You might just need to find a unionized factory. The lowest wage at my workplace is $25/hr (CAD). Local minimum wage is $17.20/hr and median wage is $21.83/hr.

Aww

Hey silver lining though?

You’re not gonna get fired and be embarrassed in ten years then go broke and lose your property and be unhireable etc etc etc

There was a US story or few too - someone goes back and checks ancient claims, then it’s all bad

Yeah; those are reasonable. Not overly-checkable stuff like the school you went to and degree you obtained.

I swear being on linked in is like a dating app.

If you’re a male in IT, the recruiters that DM you are always hot but likely bots. When you interact with them, they always want to steer you toward jobs that have nothing to do with what you want.

They blue ball you until you get through the interview and then ghost you.

believing they have a degree is useful for telling clients who specifically sometimes ask about the degrees of the people they’ll be working with

I used to work for a company that provided programming consultants for the US military and for defense contractors. The hourly rate we could be billed out at was entirely dependent on highest degree attained, so PhDs could be billed out at the highest rate, followed by Masters, then Bachelors of Science and then Bachelors of Art. It didn’t even matter what field your PhD was in, so my company was chock-full of useless people with advanced degrees who got put onto every project and told to just stay home. The worst thing was when they insisted on showing up and doing something.

This could never go wrong

My college had a professor of communications with a degree from a supposedly ancient (like, 13th century) Italian university. He only got exposed because we had a big ceremony for the newly-hired President of the college, with a procession that featured faculty and alumni walking in an order determined by the age of the oldest institution they were associated with. One of our alumni was a very famous author who was on the faculty at Harvard, and he was like “why am I not the first in line?” He looked up this comm prof’s “university” which turned out to be basically a prep school that wasn’t even close to being 700 years old. Comm prof was promptly fired, which was kind of a shame because he was actually a really good teacher.

Video game loading screen tips but textbook form.

I mean, the textbook wasn’t wrong…

Had to go find a Table of Contents for an MBA textbook

For this thread start at chapter 18

“Employers hate this one powerful trick!”

If you keep adding enough master degrees eventually the HR system of some company hiring you will overflow and you’ll be CISO in no time.

overqualified

Tried that, doesn’t work

Do you think there’s a correlation between those who process further up the academia tree; and those who enjoy masochism?

PHD doesnt equate to a easy job find either, its pretty difficult if not very hard to do. in my state school i had department head reviewing 30+ prof/adjunts candidates in that semester alone. when i was going to research talks, one of them said the DR(who had come to our uni to give research talk about a subject he was doing) had written 40+ PAPERS before a employer was interested in hiring them. then theres the issue with that too, the quality of papers are dismal and then the profession itself.