"Read ad. Send in resume. Go to job interview. Receive offer.” is the exception, not the typical case, for getting employment.
[0]: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
"Read ad. Send in resume. Go to job interview. Receive offer.” is the exception, not the typical case, for getting employment.
[0]: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
After trying with that method, I experimented with many other routes. Most expect me to already have a work visa. I've been trying since March. I rewrote my résumé twice. I updated my LinkedIn. I asked recruiters for help. I put side projects on the web to try to get attention. I asked friends who I worked with at a local company when I was there before. I found random people on Github and offered to work for free on open-source projects just to get an introduction. I contacted computer repair shops and asked them to put up posters advertising data migration services that I could do with my old Apple II. Nothing has worked. Now I'm spamming every company on the Accredited Employers list (whether in the tech industry or not), just to try to get some new ideas of how to approach the application process in that country.
Writing custom cover letters and tailoring my résumé for each separate application is very time consuming and involves exaggeration to the point of stretching the truth. What I'm considering in this project is to build a bot that could take over that process. Blatant lying, just not in my name. I think that fraud is wrong for a human, but for a bot, passing the Turing Test is a feature.
No, no I won't.
The bot created the resume under your direction: you're not presenting the resume as a science project or submitting it to a Turing Test, you're submitting it to an HR person, or hiring manager, as a potential candidate, and wasting their time. It's just rude.
Uh except for "You’re in the business of unemploying people. If you think that is unfair, go back to school and study something that doesn’t matter."