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After over a year of 'retirement', I started looking for something to occupy my time - and I find that the newest, greatest job search sites don't seem to pay any attention to the resume I upload. I have received alerts for CDL Truck drivers, Product design engineers, Molecular Biologist (??) and others that do not seem to be relatable to the contents of my resume at all.
Anybody have any recommendations for sites that at least try to be accurate?
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine - via Walt Kelly)
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I've yet to find any recruiter that has even a clue about the subject(s) he is recruiting for. Or geography for that matter.
I am not commuting 250 miles each way every day, so stop offering me jobs on the other side of the UK ...
They are all ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) - wits as far as I can see, that's one reason why Linkedin emails go straight to the bin these days.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I've actually been impressed with Indeed over the years.
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stoneyowl2 wrote: After over a year of 'retirement',
Hah short attention span, I've lasted 2 years so far 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Well, my 'retirement' was not of my choosing - after over 3 weeks in hospital, I now am told I cannot drive, and have some short term memory loss, balance issues, tremors in my left hand, etc.
But I am bored to tears with youtube, and have started trying to catch up with 'new' language technologies and frameworks.
My SO is driving me crazy, and vice versa 
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine - via Walt Kelly)
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Right there with you! I am suffering from the same conditions exactly! for a while they thought I was getting Parkinson's but testing ruled that out. Neurologists came to the conclusion that it was side effect from the anti-seizure drug they have me on. No more seizures, thank God, and since all of mine happened at night, I can now drive. But I have the added aggravation of my boss CONSTANTLY on my A** saying, "Write things down!".
Which I try to do, but he talks a 400 words a minute and I can't get him to understand that I can't write that fast.
Nobby Nobbs
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Mine is all side effects of NASH - Non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. Build up of ammonia in the brain causes some really weird effects 
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine - via Walt Kelly)
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Ah crap, sympathy to you both, my retirement was voluntary thank the Great Ghu.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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What's wrong with CDL Truck drivers or Molecular Biologist jobs?
Apply and tell them that these were recommended to you based on your past skills 🤣.
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Maybe there is an explanation for this. The newest job engines belongs to some of the biggest recruitment agencies, and those job engines handle everything in recruiting process for the client company. They offer to integrate part of their services into the website of the company - job application form, job advertisements, and after that they govern the entire process, they save the data, parse the CV and try fill some data from it according their needs. The infrastructure of those job engines requires constant support and quite often this support is outsourced into some BPO company, in a country where the salaries are not so high - Eastern Europe, Magreb, Vietnam etc. etc. Those BPO companies usually hire low paid workers, students or similar, the turnover is quite high, so it is quite easy that some fraud happens. It might even be a common practice - they see some good CV, they tag it wrong and the application of this person is done, it will no longer work properly. Why do they do this - they can use the good CV and they can change it to suit some other, far less experienced developer to land a great job. You can thing of this in the following way - biggest job engines start to be just like some of the biggest social media websites and similar services, for example dating sites. Great commercials, lots of applicants, but the return value for applicants is not much. You might wonder - why is this being unnoticed, how come nobody notice such bad thing? And the answer is - the number of applicants in such engines is very big, some of the biggest clients of such job engines receive thousands of applications - like 600 000 or 700 000 for a 100 or 120 positions. Calculate the ratio.
So in very short summary - those job engines are mainly for making cheap commercials, kind of advertising of the companies. It might even happen that HR publish fake job offers of the developers of the engine or integration team publish fake job offers after an update just to see how it works. Main part of personal is recruited by other means. Around 60%-70% of the cases of successful recruiting is when there is a inside recommendation from an existing employee or something similar. The HR of client company in such case follow the application step by step and make sure that everything works fine.
At least this is my experience in Europe.
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stoneyowl2 wrote: greatest job search sites don't seem to pay any attention to the resume I upload
You should post a nicer picture 
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I would apply for the Molecular Biologist job. You are, after all, associated with a body made of molecules. Sounds like fun. 
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The only connection I see is that one of my degrees is in Chemistry
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine - via Walt Kelly)
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Yeah, Indeed.com was a bad choice. Within hours of posting a resume on Indeed, I started getting MLM and package-forwarding scam "jobs".
There is no sophisticated "algorithm". Just recruiters spamming you with hard-to-fill positions alongside the afourementioned scams. Where you live is irrelevant. Only the dystopic hellhole where they need a programmer who knows the whackdoodle library is important geographically. That, and finding someone willing to work for $20/hr.
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If it lasts any longer, look for an uptick in productivity worldwide...
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God forbid it should happen to CP! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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God forbid it happens to TotD!!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Now that's just crazy talk!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The end of the world is neigh..rejoice all for now we are free....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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WhatsUp WhatsDown
FTFY!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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megaadam wrote: WhatsDown
 I like it! A paid service that shows what services are down at any moment! It's exactly what suckers people need. If I know one thing, it's that bad news sells better than good news!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Never thought that there is one switch which controls all three at once.
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I feel good... Didn't know it happened until this morning seeing on the news... And went to bed just before midnight...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I heard about this on the radio driving to work this morning.
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