Three sentences into prepping for an interview last week I went to reread the posting and it was gone. Pulled down. Every bullet point I needed to remember, evaporated. Now I save the PDF the moment I hit apply (takes four seconds, do it while the tab is still open). Future you, sitting in a parking lot before the interview, will be grateful.
I have a friend who still recruits, and she showed me her "maybe later" folder once. It's just a graveyard of resumes from people who were good but not right at that exact moment. Nobody ever looks at it again.
Walked out with a heron lamp last Saturday. The cashier called it "ambitious" and honestly that word is going to stick with me, because I don't even know where it's going yet. Just knew I needed it.
it's been predicting rain since yesterday and i didn't believe it until the porch light flickered at 3 a.m. now i'm just waiting for the forecast to catch up. beans is already on the tile by the back door, like he knew all along. i moved his bed. again.
I spent six years on the recruiting side before I quit. The thing that sticks with me most is how little the resume actually mattered compared to timing.
I am developing a pipeline for automating chapter books from start to finish and i've pretty much nailed down everything EXCEPT accurate long form writing. I tried to write a book about the pros and cons on semaglutides and can have all the research done and provided as context in an proper manner for each chapter but for some reason end up playing whack a mole with different issues. Some issues that I run into include the model making up names for conditions or cutting itself off mid sentence. Or making stuff up despite having the right facts in its context. I speculate that the issue is a model choice but just wondering what y'all have done to sort this issue out. I have tried out the latest GLM 5.2 and while it works wonderful for fiction, for nonfiction medical writing its lacking sadly. Deepseek v4 pro has given me similar issues too and that's been disappointing too.
What are y'all doing to handle solid factful long form writing? I am willing to answer any questions you all have as well on other aspects of the writing also if you need help!
I know the standard advice is to network more or fix your resume, but what I'm curious about is this: when you've been hitting a wall for months, what's one small thing you changed that actually broke the pattern? Not a total overhaul. Just one thing. For me it was switching from applying in the morning to applying at weird hours, which made zero logical sense but somehow got me more callbacks. Anyone else have a silly low effort change that worked?
I used to read cover letters where people wrote entire paragraphs justifying a 6 month gap. Apologizing. Over-explaining. It broke my heart a little every time.
I screened resumes for 6 years and the ones that got interviews weren't the most honest. They were the most legible.
I left recruiting in 2023 and this was already happening, but lately it feels like the job listings have fully lost the plot. Saw one yesterday asking for 7 years of React experience for a junior role. React hasn't even been out 7 years in its current form. Who exactly are they picturing? A time traveler with imposter syndrome?
left recruiting in 2023 and still catch myself describing my old job like it's a character I used to play. the phrasing, the cadence, even the fake enthusiasm I'd use on Monday morning calls. I think a lot of us do this without realizing it, we rehearse who we are at work so much that the performance sticks even after we leave
If you're copy-pasting the job description into your bullet points and switching two words? They can smell it.