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Kleinmuuhg
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CecilSunkure
United States2829 Posts
In my experiences with hiring the 5 years exp on the applications is a bunch of BS. It's a gate by HR, and HR is in general horrible at doing HR. For example I was hired into my current position as an opportunity hire, but I lacked the X-number-of-years-experience. So when I applied normally, HR immediately threw my resume away even though I was highly qualified in terms of skills. So I had to take a different job at the company and then do an internal transfer many months later. The internal transfer placed me into a position labelled senior (which is typically 5-10 yrs of experience) even though I only had 1 year of experience. And it was an opportunity hire, which especially says something about how bad HR can be. The best thing you can probably do is make some friends who can vouch for you and do an internal recommendation to bypass HR. You can try working at a company you like in a really low paying job just to meet these people. There are ways to get around the broken as fuck system. It's just a matter of figuring out the most effective way to manipulate things to your favor. --- Congrats on getting your offer man! Sorry it was a struggle during the interim. | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
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On September 17 2017 05:57 CecilSunkure wrote: (looks like I'm late, but I'll rant anyways) In my experiences with hiring the 5 years exp on the applications is a bunch of BS. It's a gate by HR, and HR is in general horrible at doing HR. For example I was hired into my current position as an opportunity hire, but I lacked the X-number-of-years-experience. So when I applied normally, HR immediately threw my resume away even though I was highly qualified in terms of skills. So I had to take a different job at the company and then do an internal transfer many months later. The internal transfer placed me into a position labelled senior (which is typically 5-10 yrs of experience) even though I only had 1 year of experience. And it was an opportunity hire, which especially says something about how bad HR can be. The best thing you can probably do is make some friends who can vouch for you and do an internal recommendation to bypass HR. You can try working at a company you like in a really low paying job just to meet these people. There are ways to get around the broken as fuck system. It's just a matter of figuring out the most effective way to manipulate things to your favor. --- Congrats on getting your offer man! Sorry it was a struggle during the interim. Thanks! But yeah, it makes so sense when they put that shit on descriptions, knowing they just need a body to fill a seat at some places. The place that hired me today, www.jacksonmain.com has some good stuff and I think I'll get a good opportunity to grow quicker. | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On September 13 2017 05:29 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote: Okay, update: My knees are just becoming more and more rekt (complete torn ACL, tendonitis in both) and my wrists feel like they're about to give out on me. Other than that, just body pain from being a fatty (no offense). It's not bad but it's definitely wearing me down. I meet with the principal of the architecture firm Friday. I'm saying it's about a 90% chance I get a job offer of some sort in a few days. As soon as that happens, I'll put in a week's notice (I can't do a solid two weeks, I'd die) and be on my merry fucking way from Amazon. I will admit, it's not hard work, it's just boring and drone. This isn't the kind of work I see myself doing for more than a summer if I was a kid. There are some people who thrive in this kind of "non-thinking" environment, and I congratulate them. But I'm going to shoot for something higher/greater than pushing pallets of items around and tearing down cardboard boxes. I'll update you all again once I know more on Friday. Nobody thrives in that environment at Amazon | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
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For the most part, the office seems nice and I've been mostly doing red lines and measurements. But we should be doing some bigger projects coming up in Revit, which I'm way better at than AutoCAD. So it should be fun. It'll be a good experience to test myself against the others in the office who know the program. All in all, I think this place will fit me. More construction oriented than design, but I can deal with that. | ||
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