what’s relevant is his work history and how he is applying for jobs. i hire for my company. lots of people have shitty worthless resumes and letters because they literally don’t know how the apply to jobs. and then a chunk of those with recent applications, dont’ reply or interview terribly.
but they are 22/23, they don’t know this shit and they have to learn it.
we dont’ give a fuck what your degree is in, but we expect a demonstration of professional competence and the ability to tell us how your skills would apply to the job. and most people can’t do this… they apply with boilerplate language that shows us they didn’t read the job description or they resume highligths irrelevant things. copy pasting the same application to every job is the best way to ensure no employee ever looks at it.
and we dont’ even get a ton of applications, we’re a small company with no clout, we maybe get 30 applications per position, not like 300 or 3000. but typically 90% are trash and we might try to contact/interview 3 people for 1 offer.
we’ve honestly hired people from shitty no name schools over people with more relevant degrees and from fancy schools… because their application was relevant and in the interview they showed competence and maturity and the ability to process new information. a lot of folks freak out and freeze up and can’t answer basic questions, like how their degree/work history is relevant to what we are looking for in an employee, so they don’t get hired.
i got hired on the spot basically because during my interview I asked them questions about their security postures and practices, and like their upgrade timelines… which all showed I knew what the fuck I was talking about and had experience doing IT operations. they told me later that out of various other people and previous employees, not a one of them had shown that level of curious and engagement with the job and often they ended up being shitty employees.
a lot of applicants have no idea what your job involves skillwise. company names dont always give a hint, and unless youre a huge conglomerate youre media footprint is miniscule at best.
Truth. This is sadly something you learn after landing your first job, not before.
My eye opening moment was seeing the technical guy at the interview light up when I said I’m open to learning their domain knowledge. I didn’t have a degree, but I made up for it by showing interest in the field by doing my own projects, as a hobby. I was the only guy in the department without a degree for a long time.
First job hunt took a while, second and third was basically on the spot, first application sent.
It’s not.
what’s relevant is his work history and how he is applying for jobs. i hire for my company. lots of people have shitty worthless resumes and letters because they literally don’t know how the apply to jobs. and then a chunk of those with recent applications, dont’ reply or interview terribly.
but they are 22/23, they don’t know this shit and they have to learn it.
we dont’ give a fuck what your degree is in, but we expect a demonstration of professional competence and the ability to tell us how your skills would apply to the job. and most people can’t do this… they apply with boilerplate language that shows us they didn’t read the job description or they resume highligths irrelevant things. copy pasting the same application to every job is the best way to ensure no employee ever looks at it.
and we dont’ even get a ton of applications, we’re a small company with no clout, we maybe get 30 applications per position, not like 300 or 3000. but typically 90% are trash and we might try to contact/interview 3 people for 1 offer.
we’ve honestly hired people from shitty no name schools over people with more relevant degrees and from fancy schools… because their application was relevant and in the interview they showed competence and maturity and the ability to process new information. a lot of folks freak out and freeze up and can’t answer basic questions, like how their degree/work history is relevant to what we are looking for in an employee, so they don’t get hired.
i got hired on the spot basically because during my interview I asked them questions about their security postures and practices, and like their upgrade timelines… which all showed I knew what the fuck I was talking about and had experience doing IT operations. they told me later that out of various other people and previous employees, not a one of them had shown that level of curious and engagement with the job and often they ended up being shitty employees.
a lot of applicants have no idea what your job involves skillwise. company names dont always give a hint, and unless youre a huge conglomerate youre media footprint is miniscule at best.
unless it’s like written in the job description, which it almost always is.
but it’s true that many candidates, can’t frickin’ read, or don’t bother to.
Truth. This is sadly something you learn after landing your first job, not before.
My eye opening moment was seeing the technical guy at the interview light up when I said I’m open to learning their domain knowledge. I didn’t have a degree, but I made up for it by showing interest in the field by doing my own projects, as a hobby. I was the only guy in the department without a degree for a long time.
First job hunt took a while, second and third was basically on the spot, first application sent.