Post B1QIBMvyAGRutCFIie by hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #B1QIBMvyAGRutCFIie by hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange
       2025-12-19T21:36:42Z
       
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       One of the crappiest trends I’m seeing in my mentorship sessions today is people getting laid off from large corporations after 20-40 years of silo right now. It’s really appalling if not unexpected. If you’ve been somewhere over 5, 10, 20 years it’s worth looking at your employability elsewhere.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1QIBNpyo1FhguS21Q by hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange
       2025-12-19T21:41:33Z
       
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       I have to have a deeply uncomfortable conversation with people my age and older about how they’re missing essential skills ATS will automatically reject without. How they’ll look to the computer worse than a new grad. Don’t trust corporations. Never trust corporations.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1QOQntMoiE2ZClu76 by Npars01@mstdn.social
       2025-12-20T01:30:48Z
       
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       @hacks4pancakes Applicant Tracking Systems will reject qualified candidates for using a dated descriptive term for a skill, rather than the modern word.Job hopping allows a candidate to keep current on the jargon for identical skills.Networking helps too.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1QOQpAm3TkAXTvJsu by ramsey@phpc.social
       2025-12-20T01:33:50Z
       
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       @Npars01 @hacks4pancakes When I was laid off at the end of 2023, I polished up my resume and paid to have it reviewed twice. The biggest suggestions were to remove all experience greater than 15 years, remove the dates from my education, and remove all open source contributions and conference speaking engagements. I felt like I was completely eliminating what I thought was my “competitive advantage.”
       
 (DIR) Post #B1QOQqIxqVtC3AlNI0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-12-20T01:41:14Z
       
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       @ramsey @Npars01 @hacks4pancakes I'd suspect a great deal depends on who you'd want to work for. Who could really use your skills in a way that would make the work worth doing... or if you just want to find the highest paying job you can land. Interview the company right back.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1QQ2JlvLoNU6qk57g by ramsey@phpc.social
       2025-12-20T01:59:16Z
       
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       @futurebird @Npars01 @hacks4pancakes Oh, true. Always interview them right back. It was just very disheartening to learn these things counted against me in the ATSes.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1QQ3Zay0PxXTSDQsC by log@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-12-20T01:59:30Z
       
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       @futurebird @ramsey @Npars01 @hacks4pancakes The worst job-advertisers do not put in equal effort into advertising themselves to the applicant as they put into vetting the candidate against listed qualifications.  Unfortunately, "work worth doing" is rare in my sector.  It's often a choice between yet another CRUD app with all new marketing copy, or something that automates the complete destruction of cooperative civilization.So highest pay, with a side of soul damage lower than regen rate.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1QR0elaQFwcb8M8Tg by funnymonkey@freeradical.zone
       2025-12-20T02:10:08Z
       
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       @futurebirdThis is part of the math that led me to start my company when I got laid off in May. I have *a lot* to say on this. @ramsey @Npars01 @hacks4pancakes