#jobhunt — Public Fediverse posts
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Turned down for another job. Tired today to get motivated to redo the resume and engage outplacement and recruiting services but really did not find the motivation. Just cleaned and did laundry.
But I am coming up on 2 months so I really need to figure out a way to focus and be positive about this
If you know any recruiters that have been positive to work with in the Chicago and southern Wisconsin ares please let me know. Would really appreciate the help.
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Turned down for another job. Tired today to get motivated to redo the resume and engage outplacement and recruiting services but really did not find the motivation. Just cleaned and did laundry.
But I am coming up on 2 months so I really need to figure out a way to focus and be positive about this
If you know any recruiters that have been positive to work with in the Chicago and southern Wisconsin ares please let me know. Would really appreciate the help.
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Turned down for another job. Tired today to get motivated to redo the resume and engage outplacement and recruiting services but really did not find the motivation. Just cleaned and did laundry.
But I am coming up on 2 months so I really need to figure out a way to focus and be positive about this
If you know any recruiters that have been positive to work with in the Chicago and southern Wisconsin ares please let me know. Would really appreciate the help.
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Turned down for another job. Tired today to get motivated to redo the resume and engage outplacement and recruiting services but really did not find the motivation. Just cleaned and did laundry.
But I am coming up on 2 months so I really need to figure out a way to focus and be positive about this
If you know any recruiters that have been positive to work with in the Chicago and southern Wisconsin ares please let me know. Would really appreciate the help.
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Turned down for another job. Tired today to get motivated to redo the resume and engage outplacement and recruiting services but really did not find the motivation. Just cleaned and did laundry.
But I am coming up on 2 months so I really need to figure out a way to focus and be positive about this
If you know any recruiters that have been positive to work with in the Chicago and southern Wisconsin ares please let me know. Would really appreciate the help.
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The tips were absolute crap, but at least it was a little bit of cash money in my pocket and I desperately needed that.They only had me working lunches so that left me plenty of time for other endeavors. #jobhunt #survivor #stranded #resources #writer
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/09/20/73-what-is-a-juggalo-7/
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The tips were absolute crap, but at least it was a little bit of cash money in my pocket and I desperately needed that.They only had me working lunches so that left me plenty of time for other endeavors. #jobhunt #survivor #stranded #resources #writer
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/09/20/73-what-is-a-juggalo-7/
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The tips were absolute crap, but at least it was a little bit of cash money in my pocket and I desperately needed that.They only had me working lunches so that left me plenty of time for other endeavors. #jobhunt #survivor #stranded #resources #writer
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/09/20/73-what-is-a-juggalo-7/
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The tips were absolute crap, but at least it was a little bit of cash money in my pocket and I desperately needed that.They only had me working lunches so that left me plenty of time for other endeavors. #jobhunt #survivor #stranded #resources #writer
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/09/20/73-what-is-a-juggalo-7/
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The tips were absolute crap, but at least it was a little bit of cash money in my pocket and I desperately needed that.They only had me working lunches so that left me plenty of time for other endeavors. #jobhunt #survivor #stranded #resources #writer
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/09/20/73-what-is-a-juggalo-7/
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2 all my fellow #designers
hows ur #portfolio goinn :3
#design #UI #UX #dev #graphicdesign #graphic #art #artist #website #webdesign #typedesign #type #pixelpusher #jobhunt
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2 all my fellow #designers
hows ur #portfolio goinn :3
#design #UI #UX #dev #graphicdesign #graphic #art #artist #website #webdesign #typedesign #type #pixelpusher #jobhunt
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Tailoring your resume to each job description is the fastest way to turn more applications into interviews, and it takes far less time than people assume.
Read more: https://www.careerreload.com/how-to-tailor-your-resume/
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How to Tailor Your Resume to the Job Description and Get More Interviews
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I’m still applying to jobs even though my current job is honestly like pretty nice in terms of accessibility and understanding my skills and limits. It’s just that I need to move out of my friend’s house and the job just barely meets the 3x minimum income requirement for the inflated rent prices in Pensacola.
#JobHunt #SocialWorkDoesntPay #DataAnalyst #HireMe #ADACompliance
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I’m still applying to jobs even though my current job is honestly like pretty nice in terms of accessibility and understanding my skills and limits. It’s just that I need to move out of my friend’s house and the job just barely meets the 3x minimum income requirement for the inflated rent prices in Pensacola.
#JobHunt #SocialWorkDoesntPay #DataAnalyst #HireMe #ADACompliance
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I’m still applying to jobs even though my current job is honestly like pretty nice in terms of accessibility and understanding my skills and limits. It’s just that I need to move out of my friend’s house and the job just barely meets the 3x minimum income requirement for the inflated rent prices in Pensacola.
#JobHunt #SocialWorkDoesntPay #DataAnalyst #HireMe #ADACompliance
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One of the shifts I’ve observed in myself in this era of #misinformation and #vibecoding is a hard swing back toward #embodied activities and #mysticism, i.e. the witchy stuff.
Five years back my whole personality was perfecting code and getting praised for it whilst remaining as invisible to the world as possible. I stayed in my head because that way street harassment and #dysphoria didn’t hurt as much. I was utterly committed to being rational and sensible and convinced I lived in a world where logic and facts were ultimately in charge.
But they’re not, are they?
Something cracked in that hard shell when I started #singing again, and that soupy mess inside it had changed. My choir sisters and my song circle gently coaxed me out of there over a couple of years. (Also, I fell in love. Like, hard. There are fewer things more transformative.)
All of this was magical in itself. But it also felt like an existential risk, that in reclaiming all this I’d ultimately be cast out of the modest place of safety I’d found in writing software. That fear came true for me this year, and I don’t yet know if I’ll make it back in. Even if I do, I don’t think it’ll be ‘safe’ any more: precarity is a way of life now.
But it feels to me like the whole industry has, at this point, also turned its back on rationality.
So my #jobhunt effort is now informed by a daily #tarot pull, and my engineering efforts might be assisted by a bit of improvised #chaosMagic - how’s that so different from the stochastic output of an LLM and the smoke and mirrors of the tech industry, or for that matter mainstream politics?
We’re _not_ rational beings. We’re dancing points of impossible light and darkness, made of matter that’s mostly empty space, improbable beings of living language existing at an extraordinary nexus of life-and-death planetary events.
We can’t even draw a simple circle without irrational numbers.
So I’m absolutely going to keep embracing the witchy shit, and enjoy the ride.
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One of the shifts I’ve observed in myself in this era of #misinformation and #vibecoding is a hard swing back toward #embodied activities and #mysticism, i.e. the witchy stuff.
Five years back my whole personality was perfecting code and getting praised for it whilst remaining as invisible to the world as possible. I stayed in my head because that way street harassment and #dysphoria didn’t hurt as much. I was utterly committed to being rational and sensible and convinced I lived in a world where logic and facts were ultimately in charge.
But they’re not, are they?
Something cracked in that hard shell when I started #singing again, and that soupy mess inside it had changed. My choir sisters and my song circle gently coaxed me out of there over a couple of years. (Also, I fell in love. Like, hard. There are fewer things more transformative.)
All of this was magical in itself. But it also felt like an existential risk, that in reclaiming all this I’d ultimately be cast out of the modest place of safety I’d found in writing software. That fear came true for me this year, and I don’t yet know if I’ll make it back in. Even if I do, I don’t think it’ll be ‘safe’ any more: precarity is a way of life now.
But it feels to me like the whole industry has, at this point, also turned its back on rationality.
So my #jobhunt effort is now informed by a daily #tarot pull, and my engineering efforts might be assisted by a bit of improvised #chaosMagic - how’s that so different from the stochastic output of an LLM and the smoke and mirrors of the tech industry, or for that matter mainstream politics?
We’re _not_ rational beings. We’re dancing points of impossible light and darkness, made of matter that’s mostly empty space, improbable beings of living language existing at an extraordinary nexus of life-and-death planetary events.
We can’t even draw a simple circle without irrational numbers.
So I’m absolutely going to keep embracing the witchy shit, and enjoy the ride.
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One of the shifts I’ve observed in myself in this era of #misinformation and #vibecoding is a hard swing back toward #embodied activities and #mysticism, i.e. the witchy stuff.
Five years back my whole personality was perfecting code and getting praised for it whilst remaining as invisible to the world as possible. I stayed in my head because that way street harassment and #dysphoria didn’t hurt as much. I was utterly committed to being rational and sensible and convinced I lived in a world where logic and facts were ultimately in charge.
But they’re not, are they?
Something cracked in that hard shell when I started #singing again, and that soupy mess inside it had changed. My choir sisters and my song circle gently coaxed me out of there over a couple of years. (Also, I fell in love. Like, hard. There are fewer things more transformative.)
All of this was magical in itself. But it also felt like an existential risk, that in reclaiming all this I’d ultimately be cast out of the modest place of safety I’d found in writing software. That fear came true for me this year, and I don’t yet know if I’ll make it back in. Even if I do, I don’t think it’ll be ‘safe’ any more: precarity is a way of life now.
But it feels to me like the whole industry has, at this point, also turned its back on rationality.
So my #jobhunt effort is now informed by a daily #tarot pull, and my engineering efforts might be assisted by a bit of improvised #chaosMagic - how’s that so different from the stochastic output of an LLM and the smoke and mirrors of the tech industry, or for that matter mainstream politics?
We’re _not_ rational beings. We’re dancing points of impossible light and darkness, made of matter that’s mostly empty space, improbable beings of living language existing at an extraordinary nexus of life-and-death planetary events.
We can’t even draw a simple circle without irrational numbers.
So I’m absolutely going to keep embracing the witchy shit, and enjoy the ride.
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One of the shifts I’ve observed in myself in this era of #misinformation and #vibecoding is a hard swing back toward #embodied activities and #mysticism, i.e. the witchy stuff.
Five years back my whole personality was perfecting code and getting praised for it whilst remaining as invisible to the world as possible. I stayed in my head because that way street harassment and #dysphoria didn’t hurt as much. I was utterly committed to being rational and sensible and convinced I lived in a world where logic and facts were ultimately in charge.
But they’re not, are they?
Something cracked in that hard shell when I started #singing again, and that soupy mess inside it had changed. My choir sisters and my song circle gently coaxed me out of there over a couple of years. (Also, I fell in love. Like, hard. There are fewer things more transformative.)
All of this was magical in itself. But it also felt like an existential risk, that in reclaiming all this I’d ultimately be cast out of the modest place of safety I’d found in writing software. That fear came true for me this year, and I don’t yet know if I’ll make it back in. Even if I do, I don’t think it’ll be ‘safe’ any more: precarity is a way of life now.
But it feels to me like the whole industry has, at this point, also turned its back on rationality.
So my #jobhunt effort is now informed by a daily #tarot pull, and my engineering efforts might be assisted by a bit of improvised #chaosMagic - how’s that so different from the stochastic output of an LLM and the smoke and mirrors of the tech industry, or for that matter mainstream politics?
We’re _not_ rational beings. We’re dancing points of impossible light and darkness, made of matter that’s mostly empty space, improbable beings of living language existing at an extraordinary nexus of life-and-death planetary events.
We can’t even draw a simple circle without irrational numbers.
So I’m absolutely going to keep embracing the witchy shit, and enjoy the ride.
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I think that jobs are starting to pick up
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I think that jobs are starting to pick up
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I think that jobs are starting to pick up
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I think that jobs are starting to pick up
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I think that jobs are starting to pick up
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At Hopeworks Newark, where young adults train for jobs, AI is remaking, not replacing https://www.byteseu.com/2195751/ #AI #AiInterviewer #ArtificialIntelligence #ChalkbeatStaff #hopework #interview #JobHunt #JobMarket
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#provn is an AI oriented job interviewing company. I never did one of their technical assessments because they wanted me to commit an hour to do one and they only seemed to have one company, though I think they just do one at a time.
I finally decided to do one and the challenge was on a rate limiting middleware (coding challenge). Anyway, I'll let the screenshots speak for why I couldn't do the assessments.
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Why Trying Stops Making Sense: The Psychology of Learned Helplessness
Jump to TL;DR You send out a tailored application, an hour or two spent getting it right, referencing the role specifically, leading with the right keywords. Nothing comes back. Not a rejection, just silence, the modern default. You do it again the next week, and the week after that, and at some point a quieter, more dangerous thought arrives: maybe it does not matter what I do. That thought is not a character flaw. It is a learned prediction, and psychology has a name for the pattern behind […] -
Applied to a certain 3-letter company yesterday, and at a certain point of the application process it asked me to rate my own language skills according to the CEFR (A1 to C2)...
Only... I'm applying for a position in Germany, at a non-German company, on a website written in English.
And they never stated which language they wanted me to rate myself on. :blobfoxcofe:
I obviously rated myself as C2, because why not? I can back that up in 3 of my 4 known languages.
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Canada's Linux Association is launching a national database for Open Source jobs.
#opensource #jobhunt #canada
https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/06/linux-association-of-canada-launches-national-open-source-jobs-hub/ -
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Blog: I’m Having a Race Crisis.
As y’all are aware of from Friday’s post, I have graduated high school, which means that it’s now imperative that I get a job. I have been searching for a job for three years but unfortunately was never able to find anyone wanting to hire me. I sent in my resume and applied to numerous places, and most of them never got back to me. Obviously, this isn’t ideal in any situation, but it especially wasn’t great since my choices were limited. I was too young to work in many places, including retail (I was turned down a cashier job at Home Depot because I wasn’t 18), and my various severe food allergies excluded me from working at many entry level jobs, such as fast food or grocery stores.
However, since I am now legally an adult, more job opportunities have become available and as I’ve been trying to find a job, I have become aware that my race is more complicated than I thought it was.
For those of you who don’t know, I am a melting pot of various ethnicities and races. Yes, quite a bit of my DNA is from Europe and it’s very apparent if you look at me, but I’m also Navajo, Hispanic, Puerto Rican, Cherokee, Iroquois, and possibly some other stuff that I’m unaware of. And, no, with the exception of the Iroquois ancestry, this isn’t a super small part of my genetic makeup, either. We’re talking almost the entire maternal side of my family being a mix of Navajo, Hispanic, Puerto Rican, and some other things. The Cherokee blood came from my paternal great-grandmother.
Basically, I have a better claim to a job at some prestigious university based on my ancestry than Elizabeth Warren does.
That said, when filling out job applications, when they’re asking for my race or ethnicity, I typically laugh at it. However, when filling out my most recent application, when asked for my ethnicity, it asked if I was Hispanic/Latino or not.
Why there were only those two options available, I don’t know, but it gets worse.
When asked about my race, I had numerous options, including:
- Hispanic/Latino
- Caucasian (Not Hispanic/Latino)
- Black (Not Hispanic/Latino)
- Asian (Not Hispanic/Latino)
- Pacific Islander or Hawaiian Native (Not Hispanic/Latino)
- Native American or Alaskan Native (Not Hispanic/Latino)
- Mix of two or more races (Not Hispanic/Latino)
If you’re wondering why I have, in parenthesis, “Not Hispanic/Latino,” isn’t me trying to be super specific. This is how it was actually laid out on the application.
Now, this isn’t the first time I have seen this stupidity. The first time I saw it was on a government job application form when I was applying for a job as a toll booth attendant at a state park. I laughed at it, thought it was weird, but, what else can you expect from the government, especially in a blue state? But to see it on a job application for a private company? Why is this necessary? And why are Hispanics/Latinos excluded from every group except their own?
Seriously. For the groups that aren’t part of that category, I can understand it somewhat, though it should go without saying. But for people who are mixed race? I’m sorry, but are mestizos not a thing? Why are we excluding people who are part Hispanic/Latino, especially since White/Latino marriages are the most common interracial marriages in America? What’s going on here? And how are those of us who have one mixed race parent supposed to answer? Do we just go off of how we look or our actual ancestry?
Even worse were the definitions given to further specify who is actually part of a specific racial group. One example of this was their definition of who is White/Caucasian. According to the application, if you are from Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East, you count as white.
You read that correctly. If you’re from North Africa or the Middle East, you count as white. I wish I was kidding.
Another example of the application’s ridiculous definitions was what constitutes as Native American. Apparently, you can’t just be genetically Native American, from any number of tribes from North, Central, or South America. You have to still be affiliated with your tribe to count as Native American.
My Navajo great-grandmother would be offended.
Because of how these definitions work, I once again have to wonder where mestizos or those who have mestizo ancestry fit in. Do I go off of how I look when answering this, or do I go off my actual ancestry? How does that work if I’m related to Native Americans, but they don’t affiliate themselves with their tribe? None of this makes sense.
The simple solution to this problem is to stop asking people this question in the first place. Who cares about your race if you can do your job well? We shouldn’t have to feel pressure to answer this question lest we be discriminated against because we didn’t pick a race or we picked one that’s not desirable in today’s workplace DEI culture.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Blog #Employment #Funny #Genetics #Hispanic #JobHunt #life #Mestizo #NativeAmerican #OpinionPeice #Race #Racism #White #Writing -
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I tested out for a while Claude with Obsidian for job hunting. It was... a mixed bag, at best. Not terrible for most of the time, but never great.
The task I gave it was as follows:
- scan job boards such as indeed
- find english-speaking positions posted in the last 7 days in Germany or the Netherlands;
- ingest the job posting;
- research about the company;
- get the salary range or estimate based on market averages;
- identify gaps in my resume and points of attention;In the beginning I was using Claude Code instead of Cowork, and it sort of worked. Some job boards and websites blocked the requests, some data was incomplete or incorrect, but in general it... worked... more or less.
However, it:
- brought German-speaking positions more often than not (usually with the remark that "needs research if the company accepts English-speaking candidates");
- brought positions posted over a year ago;
- hallucinated positions;
- at least once ignored entirely the contents of the instructions in CLAUDE.md and brought me hybrid or in-person positions... in the US.Then I started testing out Cowork, out of curiosity. Since then it was only downhill.
It scans the Obsidian vault to get the current context, then spawns agents to query the job boards, and before it starts summarizing a single position, usually my quota limit is reached and it drops in the middle telling me to wait until the quota is freed up again.
Then I wait, click "try again" and instead of picking up from where it was, it starts again the process, killing my quota again. And again.
I'm yet to go back to Claude Code and try to run it from there, probably it, at the very least, won't hang up in the middle due to quota issues, since it won't use the extended processing that Cowork allows it (assumedly, and by default if so).
Granted, I'm not using this as my sole source of information on job postings, I'm not yet ready to retire my brain and let the machine take over, but I still expected it to be more useful than it actually was.
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Well, that was a lot less painful than expected but I think my CV is as up to date as it's going to be.
It has kicked the hornet's nest that is Interview Nerves, even though I haven't sent my CV off yet.
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Rats! cover email.
Well, it was a job posted on FB that a friend forwarded to me as I ditched that place a long while back, so maybe I'm panicking over nothing.
Key thing is, I guess, keep it short & simple. I'm very good at that, though perhaps too short & simple 🤷.Last time I applied for jobs it was via post with formal looking cover letters.
What do you all put in your emails? -
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