Mastodawn

There is a special place in hell for recruiters that post „hybrid work: X days in the office”, or „the hybrid model (Y/Z)”.

Are those per week? Per month? Per annum? Per rectum?
Which is Y and which is Z? WHAT UNITS ARE THOSE???

Do we need a standarised job post database with strict format rules?

(So the job postings could be searched with SQL or LibreOffice Calc.)

I think, we do.

(Do I have the resources to do it? Ask me on the n+1th \s)

#jobHunt

Dźwiedziu 2d ago

> Must be comfortable embracing AI tooling

Lol, nope

#ai #slop #jobHunt

Dźwiedziu 6d ago

Wake up babe, new definition of “innovation” just dropped.

> You are enthusiastic about innovative (AI-driven) solutions and confident in implementing them.

#ai #slop #jobHunt

Andre May 22

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.

#claude #ai #obsidian #jobHunt

Mashable India [Unofficial]May 21

India’s Career Landscape Is Shifting Fast, And Professionals Need a New Playbook: LinkedIn

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://in.mashable.com/tech/109995/indias-career-landscape-is-shifting-fast-and-professionals-need-a-new-playbook

Verđandi K Soldusty May 21

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.
...
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?

#JobHunt