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Agencies or search services out there that *actively* search for work on your behalf?

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    #21
    About 25 years ago I developed an App that searched Jobserve for contract requirements matching my Skill set and generated a unique CV for that requirement. Chatting with a Six Sigma contractor back then, he wanted to buy it and reckoned his friends would too. But I built locally on my PC and it was hard coded, so not scalable and not for release... also as a contractor on good day rate it was not worth my time.
    These days I am semi retired and researching ML, AI and NLP... a "Contract Search" app would make a good development project if there was sufficient interest.
    Hmm.

    So you then have to reconcile your 'real' CV with the generated one. Sounds like more work!
    And explain to the interviewer why you don't have C++ - 'er. it was on the auto generate CV.'

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      #22
      Originally posted by hungry_hog View Post

      Hmm.

      So you then have to reconcile your 'real' CV with the generated one. Sounds like more work!
      And explain to the interviewer why you don't have C++ - 'er. it was on the auto generate CV.'
      Surely the CV generator will be fed which skills you are an expert in, intermediate experience with, [some] experience with, and 'knowledge of' etc. so it can generate the appropriate blurb to pass the agents word matching filter.

      Then a final quick manual check and edit before you actually fire off the CV.
      Last edited by Fraidycat; 20 June 2021, 14:18.

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