A couple of days ago I explained my current job situation and asked for a job.<p>Here's a note of gratitude to the people answering questions all over the world.<p>Thanks!<p>https://calebjosue.gigalixirapp.com/blog.html#gratitude
This whole hiring game is just terrible. People in charge of hiring try to infer all kinds of things about a person based on very fuzzy and superficial data. I understand that hiring managers have to go through huge piles of applications fast. But that indicates that the labor market itself is broken. There should be a bit more randomness in the selection process to give the unusual people a better chance of finding a job (assuming that these unusual people fulfill the listed requirements).
I'll add my voice to the thankful.
I check (lurk) HN every day specifically because I can find info, tips, other views, and meaningful discussions.
Users here are amazing, thank you all.
Already I'm not too fond of this entire hiring process(although it is changing slowly), why can't recruiters look at the social profiles, and the work the candidate has done in the past and if you like it, invite him/her for an hour casual chat to get to know their goals and ambitions and that chat will tell you how passionate the candidate is about the technology.<p>Most candidates underperform in this recruiting process and that uncertain feeling of not being enough(sometimes).
I went through the above blog post and now I feel sad that I'm not in a position to hire OP, because he seems like a humble and super motivated guy people could work with. I have a few tech projects coming up that could certainly use some technical maintainers later, so hopefully those pan out productively in the near future (I do a few technical projects for fun, but like Google, I don't have the time to pay attention to grow them).<p>At OP, wish you all the best in your hunt, and here's hoping to something going your way for once. Godspeed.
This is the most wholesome thing I've ever read here on HN.
many people receive help and advice but way too few come back to express gratitude.<p>Cheers to you dude.
Good luck bro.<p>I wish you the best I read some of your blog posts in the previous post you made.<p>I think it’s cool to see people like you that have passion and make website and all that. I admire that ability of people to put these works and thoughts out there for people to see.<p>Cheers m8 I wish you da best