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Jan. 24th, 2006 11:44 pm
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Google sent e-mail this morning regretfully turning me down, because it turned out that my skillset and experience didn't fit the job req.  This, of course, after phone and in-person interviews.  DERE GOOGUL: U R TEH LOL

Anyway, it looks like the job probably went to a more worthy candidate, and i already have a job, so it's all good.

Date: 2006-01-25 08:32 am (UTC)

Date: 2006-01-25 10:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asienieizi.livejournal.com
You actually got a _real_ rejection notice? Mang, I must really really suck because most of the time since my layoff all I ever get is 3 months of silence to figure it out for myself. Wah!
Yay on the new job!

Date: 2006-01-25 01:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com
Yeah, when I was looking for work out of school, I'd usually get several weeks of silence after which I'd read in the paper that the company had laid off 200 employees.

Date: 2006-01-25 10:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wisn.livejournal.com
I remember waider being handled similarly, although iirc it took Google a lot longer to give him a 'thanks but no' letter.

It looks like you're going somewhere more fun, even if it's less ultimo-l33t. And it's too late for you to become a kablooieonaire on Google's stock anyway.

Date: 2006-01-25 08:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] waider.livejournal.com
Yeah, I didn't get the thanks-but-no until I contacted my recruitment person who claimed to have sent it out a week previously.

Date: 2006-01-25 12:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrbalihai.livejournal.com
Plus, the Google campus smells like ass and the toilets back up when the marshwaters rise, and that's the *good* part of Shoreline!

Date: 2006-01-25 02:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frosch.livejournal.com
I've gained quite a bit of exposure over the last couple of years to the modern art of processing resumes. Suffice to say that practically no one actually reads resumes themselves any more; they read the output of automatic resume preprocessors that cherrypick keywords. The more keywords in your resume, the more qualified you are.

It goes without saying (or should, although I guess I'm saying it) that someone with long years of reasonably diverse experience is going to have a lot of keywords, and is going to rank highly on a relatively larger percentage of the available requisitions.

God help you if you have language in your resume saying "I have NOT done the following things..."

Date: 2006-01-25 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] talus21.livejournal.com
Actually that might work to your advantage. List eveything you haven't done, that way it pick those up as the keywords.

Date: 2006-01-25 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frosch.livejournal.com
and you get called for a bunch of bizarre time-wasting interviews for jobs for which you are utterly unqualified.

Date: 2006-01-25 08:46 pm (UTC)
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (desolation jones)
From: [identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com
Hey, that already happens even when you accurately list your qualifications.

Date: 2006-01-25 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matrushkaka.livejournal.com
WHAT NO JAPANESE ASS WASHING TOILETS?

Date: 2006-01-25 08:46 pm (UTC)
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (bowler)
From: [identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com
They call `em "bidets" in Europe, dear.

Date: 2006-01-25 10:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sandollar17.livejournal.com
I hope you know that person...otherwise "pigfucker" seems a little harsh.

Date: 2006-01-25 10:21 pm (UTC)
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (stop casting porosity)
From: [identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com
You're clearly not acquainted with my long history of calling strangers on the Internet much worse things than "pigfucker".

But, yes, i know Nathan. And he says "hi".

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