What are /r/recruitinghell's favorite Products & Services?

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You can use the Tasker app for Android to block calls using wildcards during certain hours. Here's a guide on how to set up call blocking.

I have a similar profile that mutes calls from non-Favorite numbers during certain hours so I can only be contacted for emergencies, etc.

For some reason a lot of recruiters do this.

I just talked to one today that was shocked I cracked her code. The words she used could easily be googled to narrow it down to a single company.

"I didn't put [Company] in the Ad did I?"

"No, but you named the division which you can find on Google"

"I'm sure I didn't put [Company] in the Ad"

"You didn't, but ... eh nevermind".

Great opportunity how??? To be their servant, but long term so you can't even consider the job a stepping stone or reference. Like I get it that everyone would love an "on call" assistant in life, but the degree requirement is what kills it for me. If it's not a "clever method" to "weed out unsavory applicants" then they are completely delusional. The only other scenario I can think of is they don't actually want applicants because they have a foreigner in mind.

Reminds me of this set of old rules for teachers that banned women teachers from dating but encouraged men: http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/rules-for-teachers-in-1872-1915-no-drinking-smoking-or-trips-to-barber-shops-and-ice-cream-parlors.html

Jira is an issue tracking tool and is used for software product management (for agile). It's a way to help track what individual members of teams are doing at any one time. We use it for lots of projects and it has lots of plugins that make it rather powerful.

There are only a few instances that I can think of that would require extra experience and then the experience would be for people in IT not JIRA.

This is because the Google Messages app has identified this number as an automated number. However, they're not correct 100% of the time.

If you want to reply anyways, you will need to download a different SMS application that won't block you from replying. I'd recommend Textra, but any app will do. As you say you're on a Huawei device, you could also try the SMS app that came with the phone.

Of course, this is only temporary and you can resume using Google Messages later, it is my SMS app of choice as well.

Scam? No.

Idiot? Yes.

Let us speak plainly: this person is bringing literally nothing of value to the table. They lack even a basic vocabulary to adequately describe what they need/want.

"COMPUTER GENIUS", with "MAD computer skills" isn't how someone who is serious/competent describes a potential partner, it's how septuagenarians describe their 11 year old grandchild who sets up their WiFi and removes all the malware they got from downloading free Mahjong games.

The reality:

• There is no money to pay you up front.
• You will do 95% of the work, and be asked to split(the nonexistent) proceeds 50/50.
• You will have impossible things asked of you.
• Your "business partner" cannot spell or use correct grammar.

You want to see what the language of a serious SaaS founder looks like?

Go someplace like here: https://www.indiehackers.com

Read some of the posts/interviews with successful founders. Report back here and let us know if they sound anything like the author of this Craigslist gem.

The basics:

• Learn how to craft your resume.
• Research about writing cover letters and other formal documents.
• Identify your preferred salary range.
• Give your 101% during interviews, but don't expect.

I'd also like to recommend a book about some work stuff: Stop Getting Fu*cked by Technical Recruiters: A Nerd's Guide to Negotiating Salary And Benefits. Consider it as a handbook to avoid stressful recruiters and employers.

There's a simpler way. Install the Blur extension, and generate a unique email for each application (emails will all be forwarded to your primary email). Not only are you able to identify the source of spam, but you can also close down that particular e-mail address with a single click.

Worth noting that Blur also blocks web beacons, pixel tags, etc, along with a host of other privacy functions.

There really aren't enough outlets for the unemployed to come together and share their pain without judgment. The Indeed forums were great and I'm still furious they killed them, there was one thread called "frustrated job seekers rant" which had accumulated over 30,000 comments over the years, really miss it...(https://web.archive.org/web/20170511212856/http://www.indeed.com/forum/gen/Career-Advice/Frustrated-Job-Seeker-s-Rant-Feel-Free-Add-Your-Thoughts/t240208)

Reddit is now larger than Facebook, so I really hope they don't copy it.

Having said that, the redesign is terrible. Good thing they let the old reddit online, for now

Take some of the TTC "Great Courses"

Get the ones by college professors when they go on sale for @ $50.

You're not missing anything from an "Actual" college class except students complaining about tuition and professors complaining about their salary.

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/category/history.html?CFM=mega_menu

It's literally the exact same thing as a college course. The profs all just use their syllabus. One of my friends did one years ago.

My only thought would be whether you're over the age of 40, I recall all the nurse threads on the old Indeed forums where age discrimination frequently came up. I knew a nurse who couldn't find a perm job, after a year running around the country taking short-term temporary contracts she threw in the towel and retired at 53 (I remember when nursing was considered a "recession-proof" field along with engineering and programming, *sigh*).

You can't. This idea must be killed off.

Here's the reason you can't:

These programs don't all work the same.

These programs don't necessarily do what they claim to do.

The employer can adjust how the program works, even for single job postings.

The employer may not use the program as intended. Whatever the program's capabilities, the employer may just use it to collect resumes.

This is one book of many that discusses how terrible much of the new technology in our lives actually is:

https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Unintelligence-Computers-Misunderstand-World/dp/0262038005

Finally, that blog writer's advice is stale and does not address the problem! For just one example:

>Camouflage brief gaps in work history by listing years only, rather than years and months.

If they really knew what they were talking about, they'd know that many of these systems require you to put in months if not exact dates for your work history. If you have a gap, you can't hide it without lying one way or another.

> there are 2 parties to be held accountable here.

While employers have made zero effort to implement updated hiring practices, job seekers have done nothing but finding creative ways to get noticed. They've been trying 110%. That's part of the problem.

Applicants are constantly told to stand out or get attention, while the specific tactics and quality can vary greatly from opportunity to opportunity. On many occasions, it has even backfires on job seekers.

The premise that job seekers HAVE to dance for their dinner is more ridiculous when we examine the concept of Impression Management. Employers are waiting for a great talent to just fall into their lap through a dog and pony show, instead of doing the work to evaluate and identify competencies in effective ways. If employers actually knew how to conduct strategic hiring, job seekers wouldn't even need to get creative just to get noticed.

Except that the copies are unvalidated to have any correlation with general intelligence and even the Raven's Matrices have unclear to weak correlation with g depending on how you measure it.

Basically, the tests are products and like snake oil have benefits beside the assumed use. My HR friends tell me the tests are mostly to rationalise dismissing the candidates you don't want (for other reasons than the tests, which are arbitrary)

Not GUI but those tools are easy enough to access for most users on windows or Mac by dropping down to the command line. Or there are things like my go to service - https://mxtoolbox.com - which gives whois as well as things like mail server and blacklist checks.

> I am running my own email server, and lately I have been having problems with people using gmail just not receiving my emails

Gmail has a tendency to drop pretty much anything they receive in the receiver's spambox. I have my SPF set correctly, mail HELO set correctly, DKIM set up, DMARC records, everything, but Gmail still drops me in spam.

I think I'm just going to route my mail through https://sendgrid.com/ or similar and not worry about outbound server settings

Hey Guys !! I just found the best Job Searching App in India, OptnHire this is the best app in the term of Job Searching. It has 60+ Categories to select from and helps much in finding your desired job.

Trust your instincts and go read The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker...

This book should be required reading for everyone but especially young women.

https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Fear-Gavin-Becker-ebook/dp/B0036Z9U2A/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=126L7WATZF52J&keywords=the+gift+of+fear&qid=1668807286&sprefix=the+gift+of+fear%2Caps%2C194&sr=8-1

Virtual private network. If you've been on YouTube enough you've probably seen sponsorships for NordVPN a lot.

Essentially the VPN acts as a 'front' for your connections. As far as end websites are concerned, you are the VPN server.

This means that if you use a VPN server in the USA, websites will think you're in the USA, even if you're actually in Korea or France

The main purpose of a VPN is to hide your online activity. VPNs are often used to guard against hackers and snoops on public networks, but they're also useful for hiding your IP address, browsing activity, and personal data on any Wi-Fi network even at home.

So i would suggest useing be honest i use NordVPN as it has the best price and is one of the best vpns out there. You can check it for yourself here if u want :)

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We get this question pretty regularly in /r/negotiation, to the point that I put together a short, cheap ebook on it (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BBPXZNYX). It's 9k words long, you can read it in under an hour, and it includes all the most relevant information I could pull together for people in your situation (you have a job offer and you want to negotiate the best compensation possible).

For your specifics: You don't need a script or to lie, you're actually in a really good position already. Call them (you don't want them to misinterpret the emotional content of the message), be positive and excited about working for them, then tell them exactly what you wrote here. You're already earning what they're offering you and it just doesn't make sense to leave a job that you're doing well at, which is a known quantity, for a job that's more unknown and paying the same compensation. You should aim for 30% higher compensation, but I'd hold out for at least 20% higher (or stay where you are).

If you *REALLY* want to strengthen your position, start talking to some other companies and get more job applications going, then play them off of one another.

If you read my ebook and have any further questions, don't hesitate to send me a message or an email ([email protected]). You might also want to browse /r/negotiation and you can read answers other people have gotten to this question.

I applied for a role at ExpressVPN earlier this year for their London office. They didn’t have this step as part of their process, or it’s either new or not something they include for UK roles. I did have my own poor experience with them though.

I was very clear with them about my salary expectations going into the process, and had a good interview with the hiring manager who said that the salary would be fine and he wanted me to move to the next stage in the process. But instead of being sent details for the next interview I was called directly by an internal recruiter who told me my salary expectations were way too high and kept trying to low-ball me into accepting something much lower. I told him that I was open coming into the process what my expectations are and the hiring manager was happy with it, and to accept the lower salary would be to take a pay cut from my current role, but he didn’t seem to care. He ended the call by stating that I would “really have to wow them” during the rest of the process to be able to get that salary. I said that was fine. I’m the end they never sent me times for any further interviews.

I guess I should just be glad that happened in the middle of the process instead of right at the end.

That whole thing is nuts. Just don't bother.

And if you have any doubts, do some research into Kape Technologies who bought out ExpressVPN in 2021, and makes a habit of buying VPN services and VPN Review Sites in order to collect data:

Funnily enough this was also part of the application form 👀

“ExpressVPN is now part of Kape Technologies. The role that you are applying for will be handling Kape Technologies and its brands - CyberGhost and Private Internet Access. Are you OK with that?“

The only place I've heard of something like this is civil service. They have whole exams on proper cleaning techniques... and naturally, there are books and study guides to help people pass the tests.

Read the obstacle is the way by Ryan Holiday. It will help you learn how to use your challenges as opportunities: https://www.amazon.com/Obstacle-Way-Timeless-Turning-Triumph/dp/1591846358/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=825d6a74-9fb9-441f-9b73-8ff6008cbc5f

Check this book out. I heard about it in a podcast https://www.amazon.com/Good-Not-Enough-Unwritten-Professionals-ebook/dp/B0013TX7S4/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1659256249&refinements=p_27%3AKeith+R.+Wyche&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=Keith+R.+Wyche

https://www.amazon.com/Proximity-Principle-Proven-Strategy-Career/dp/0978562038

What you are talking about is basically what is described in this book. His podcast is great as well

You should read The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow! It actually goes into a fuck ton of detail about human prehistory and all the different ways that societies have developed in the past and the possible why's for that! Here is a link to it on Amazon if you're ok with using that: https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity/dp/1250858801

> If a company is worth a damn the coding bars are insanely high and the coding interviews can be very difficult

So don't go to a company that's worth a damn? You're not going to be staying in your first SWE position for longer than like 12-18 months anyways. Get the experience on your resume and GTFO.

The way interviewing works for entry-level candidates and junior developers in the SWE space is completely different from interviews at the more senior levels. The coding questions pretty much disappear and it's all about systems design and architecture.

You can also check out this list of companies that have been confirmed as not having leetcode/whiteboard style interviews and instead have more relevant interviewing questions to the job or take-home assignments.

I've never once worked for a FAANG or a "top" tech company. I've had a six-figure salary my first couple of years in tech and that was 15ish years ago? I work 100% remote from home and now make ~$300k/yr.

Those top companies suck up so much of the talent pool and have so many jobs open that it honestly makes it comparatively easy to find good paying jobs as an SWE elsewhere. Are you going to be making million dollar TCs in a year or be able to retire by 30? Probably not. But it's a good living, with good benefits, and beats the hell out of most other jobs out there.

That's an intermediate level project that sounds fun, but you don't need anything as complex as a Raspberry Pi. A simple microcontroller like an Arduino Nano would work great and cost less. Remember, a Raspberry Pi is an entire, albeit simple, computer. Arduino is a much simpler (and cheaper) microcontroller. (There's some overlap in capabilities, so take this as a reasonable generalization.)

Here's a sample project for non-contact temperature sensing:

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/engineeringuofs/interfacing-ir-temperature-sensor-with-arduino-uno-279b70

Also, this book is an excellent resource for Arduino. It was just updated. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1680456938?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Where i live 1 is the best grade and 4 the worst (still passing tho) and we always said „4 wins“ (like this game)

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Yeah, that's what really puzzled me, why bring me in if you're not going to be my point of contact, it definitely wasn't worth paying $40 for parking that day.

Here's an archive of that old thread, it reads like "same stuff, different decade" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20170223093532/http://www.indeed.com/forum/cmp/Creative-Circle/s-your-take-Creative-Circle/t303153

I think I got better results if I kept a cool, but pleasant professional demeanor.

That did get a few "you don't sound very enthusiastic" comments, but those were from recruiters who did not offer anything to be enthusiastic about.

>I guess the only lesson for me is that I need to change my approach.

I doubt the fault lies with your approach. You have been in the unfortunate position of dealing with stupid people. I have had the experience of my resume being rejected by a secretary.

https://imgbb.com/98tbf1g

"You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever." -- Ron "Tater Salad" White

Ok, glad to hear it! The only other thing I'll say then is I have to put in a promo for my company because I think they are mostly pretty good to their employees and they are flexible work from home even if the job doesn't list as remote - you do have to be in the country the job lists for, though:
https://www.splunk.com/en\_us/careers/search-jobs.html

Hi! I'll try to answer as much as I can, but feel free to DM, I don't check this account often. Disclaimer: my area is Bay area, but I'm familiar with the roles of PM and PJM in Europe and Asia as well (worked/had offers/mentored).

>So are you saying a Product Manager never works on Projects?

PM's work is not project focused, they do participate in projects same as developers, scrum masters, marketing, etc., but that's not their scope, instead they focus on product strategy. Here's a nice article answering that question: https://www.aha.io/blog/the-product-manager-vs-project-manager

Or search for "project manager" in /r/ProductManagement, you will see how strongly people feel about being confused for a project/program manager. While I don't subscribe to that negativity, I do agree with the importance in differentiating the roles. I used to project manage earlier in my career and the role and the skills needed are absolutely different. Product Manager is closer to strategy, marketing, user research, than it is to project management. It's a very creative role as well, unlike PJM, as you have to deal with enormous amounts of ambiguity and tough decisions.

As for the work you did: it seems you did a bit of everything, owning roadmap is what a PM would usually do, but answer this: how did you decide what to build out of the requirements you gathered? Did you develop a product strategy? Did you consider the business impact? Did you identify new pain points (as opposed to incremental improvements)? Did you write user stories or tech specs? How did you deal with trade offs? In either case, you did some PM work, but the extent of your exposure will be clearer based on answers to those questions.

I think it's free if you have a business account?

Tableau is more or less the same thing and has a free desktop version with just fewer features.

I feel like Tableau is used more than BI but I guess it depends on industries.

Spendesk: Company cards & spend management software. Sure they know how to keep the costs down.

Here is also a link to get an idea about the case: https://www.notion.so/Case-Study-Data-Analyst-7a532727e0cb400690040123738a3b31

Obsolete tech is usually still easily found.

Hell, you can still get vacuum tubes. Antique radio and speaker guys use them.

No but they mean something to the people you work for. Plenty of smart assholes never made it anywhere. Read this article. I’d memorize the URL. That way you might recognize it when people pass it around slack behind your back. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0a99728fde/amp/

My own experience on FB bears this out - they once placed an ad on my FB page for black truck nuts. I'm a white woman and drive a MINI. 🤷

>Probably a generational thing. Boomers see it as "going the extra mile", GenXers like me see it as wasted effort.

Millennials see it cynically as a warped Morton's Fork: not actually used for the hiring, but its absence is used as an excuse for not hiring.

Interesting. I've had Indians calling for jobs requiring clearance as well, although those tend to be for what I'm assuming is positions posted on public boards. Lockheed-Martin in Chelmsford, MA is a particularly bad offender here, I get calls all the time about a crap contract position where they want a Secret or interim Secret clearance because "the hiring manager is unwilling to wait for the clearance process." This job has been open for months because it pays crap for the area, and...it's a short contract.

Here's a shot of my job contact spreadsheet up to 12/10. Almost all the calls were Indian, including a few that tried to use western names but were most certainly Indian.

https://pic8.co/sh/pQPBBY.png

Not GUI but those tools are easy enough to access for most users on windows or Mac by dropping down to the command line. Or there are things like my go to service - https://mxtoolbox.com - which gives whois as well as things like mail server and blacklist checks.

Of course here you go! I redacted all my personal stuff. It is REALLY generic for an IT job. https://filetransfer.io/data-package/5gx8CTZM#link

Also if you can't download it I'll PM you it in text though the formatting might be weird.

It’s a program that holds templates or snippets of text for you. Example, if I set the program to auto insert a body of text if type ##message1.

It will auto insert an entire paragraph onto whatever I am using, either it be a web form or a word document.

https://textexpander.com/

Okay the thing I noticed is with the jobseeker hashtag you have those who are freelancers who been so since their twenties. I have to ask, those provided the free word processor why would one put so much emphasis on resume writing when it is a waste of a good word processor?

It might surprise you to find out there are quite a few skills and experiences that aren't regularly included in a resume!

I know it seems like a benign and banal edition to the interview process, but there are experiences that don't translate well on resumes alone.

Like I got used to using our company's internal wiki space, which was Moinmoin; we later moved to Atlassian Confluence due to plugin features that were desirable. During that time, I had to learn how to simple script out the wiki markdown syntax changes between the two types of wikis, and then had to figure out methods of better organizing our product's internal wiki space so that information was easier to find. That led to me coming up with new documentation standards (bolding text, use monospace for variables/output, color text RED when bad, color text blue when it's a term that should be memorized, warnings in orange, etc) that I ended up using, which led to other people in the company using, which led to easier to read documentation.

I also learned that using conversational writing tone is better for memorizing knowledge, if you can tell it in a semi-story, do so (because we humans remember things temporally, which is why stories work so well for us learning new knowledge).

If I were to put those accomplishments/experiences on a resume, it'd show up as:

• facilitated migration of wiki space to confluence wiki while also helping to create new standards.

It doesn't do the experiences justice.

Now, granted, you're just starting out in the technical writing, and you've probably got a healthy case of imposter syndrome... but trust me when I say there are skills and experiences that you can share with a recruiter that will show them "yes i have more to learn, but i have a good foundation already".

Also, use tables for step-driven processes; it helps cut down on bullet points for each step ;)

GOOD LUCK!

I have one of these for my home office but it’s not the same as “directly to the router.”

The only thing that makes some sense would possibly be IT actually. If you can read a diagram or a manual correctly to figure out what how to plug the right wires in the right port, know what a server does or can learn, and know how to google shit, you're half-way there. Shit, half of my job is googling articles on error codes and hoping the only one I find isn't from 15 years ago. The communications part is like 40% of the rest, so 90% of the way there. The last 10 is technical bullshit they have to teach you anyway that's specific to each company and the products they work with.

When you need to explain how to do something to someone else without seeing what they're doing, that communications degree might be incredibly useful, so yeah, if it interests you totally apply for the IT jobs. Spend a couple months watching some youtube videos on vpns and servers, get a vpn maybe, Mullvad is good, cheap. Play around with the command prompt and your network adapter, get a raspberry pi maybe if you're feeling adventurous, and sell the communication skills hard using after developing some background knowledge of the tech.

Related book:

https://www.amazon.com/Stupidity-Paradox-Power-Pitfalls-Functional/dp/1781255415

Basically employers are vastly overstating the need for education and experience for the jobs people actually end up doing. They hire smart people and then want them to shut up instead of contributing. But it strokes the boss's ego to think they need the best of the best for their elite team, so they keep doing it.