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[willendure]

Writing a CV for todays market is tough. Here is how I view what a CV is trying to accomplish.

A CV is like an elaborate key, elaborate because its trying to unlock a process that has become very highly elaborate and specific in itself.

A CV needs to get through ATS AI screen,...

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Bloody ridiculous. It sends totally the wrong message - "you must be fully invested at all times".

I am 40% in cash right now - now that I give a tulip about the pennies in interest on it. I just see zero point in buying equities at todays crazy prices. Buy low sell high remember...

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And still can't afford a house !...

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Yeah, first half page that is the critical part.

Assuming you actually get as far as a human being looking at your CV, they aren't going to look any further if its not a hit on the first half page.

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I hope not - all that work I put into make a beatiful looking PDF and they ruin it in Word !! But yes, quite often they do.

If I get an interview I used to take along a printed copy and had it to the interviewer, for vid conf I just send them the file, and pull it on screen at some point...

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Lots of clean rivers in Scotland. Shame its too cold to get your kit off and get in them though !! Enjoy your heatwave you whining gits.

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I can see why.

Last contract we had 4 offshore devs, and one sprint they wrote 3 lines of code between them. I bumped into an old colleague around that time, and told him it was like working with lazy and stupid AIs.

I could get more done with a £20/month AI subscription,...

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If you pay your son PAYE £4000/year for doing some small amount of work for your company, does that get him a full NI contribution for that year ? Otherwise, if he is not working, he won't count the university years for NI. Shoot me down if this is incorrect, but seems like it could be a consideration,...

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I respect that move. Myself I probably would have been thinking 6 months, 500 quid a day, yesss... i could probably hack this... don't run away when its already in the bag..!...

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HMRC just sent me a £600 rebate, I've no idea what for, but ta! So I bought a Mac Mini, as I need to be able to build some code on Mac now. But it will make a top class video conferencing box, where OBS runs nicely instead of crashing like it does on Linux. OBS doesn't cut it ? there is better software...

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I am the same, an in person meeting is so much better. Before all these f'ing Teams calls, it was a rare thing indeed that I would get an interview and not get offered the job - due to my stunning personality obviously. Somehow video calls just get in the way of providing an opportunity to make a real...

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BTW - Some of these reasonably well paid train AI to code jobs on LI are a scam. Apparently the way it works is they invite you to an interview, for which you must accept Ts&Cs, waiving the right to pursue them as part of any class action lawsuit being one of them - a waiver you can opt out of by...