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I’ll update it, but I’ll be very bloody careful as my current bosses are most likely on it as well.
Anyone active on LinkedIn is looking for a new job. It's the obvious giveaway 😀 . If I were HR I'd be running monitoring systems for flight risk.
I put together Son2's first CV. He left school at 18 planning for a career in aviation. With 10 GCSE's and 3 A Levels he needed a little extra something to standout. A nice smart selfie photo of him flying solo did the trick. There is no photo on my CV but I used a work headshot for LinkedIn. My work teams picture is me in a skin suit and helmet on the starting line at Hillingdon. Says something about me outside of work.
I really should have a go at seeing what chatgpt does to my CV. I've played with it a bit and I'm sure its just made stuff up so you cannot just cut and paste. Tbh if they can't be arsed to check their application, then what will the quality of their work be like! (though I have a problem with spelling and mixing words up, sometimes I can't spot errors despite knowing they are likely to be there)
I recruit in a similar way to DB. Sounds like others don't. Still worth updating it, as you may get someone who does use it as a verification tool to help with recruitment.
Often I look to see if I know someone who has worked with the candidate, and then contact that person to have a chat. The amount of bs on peoples CVs is incredible
In fact there is one contract chap on linkedin I actually have a chuckle about seeing his latest fanciful claim or job title, after he reapplied for a role with us a few years after being booted for being terrible. He didn't realise the same people would be recruiting. You'd think he'd single handedly saved the IT dept from oblivion
The other one I picked up on when recruiting a lot a few years back was fake software companies that some of the applicants had obviously paid money to provide a dodgy references. After a while seeing the same company name coming up on the same 'type' of CVs made it obvious something not quite right was going on, especially after interviewing and finding out they didn't have a scooby. Dunno if that is still a thing
Ever since my sister endorsed my xml skills on LinkedIn I knew it was pretty much worthless.
I disabled that years ago, I was being recommended for all sorts of shit I knew nothing about, mainly as LI randomly asks people 'Does footflaps know Perl / Judo / Chess / CPR' and people would just tick Yes to get the box to go away.
Half our sales team were experts in SW Architecture or 5G physical layer, it was about as useful as Bojo as PM.
Architects are on the down slope of the hype cycle with my current employer. There are too many associations with big design up front and contradictions with self organisation and DORA principles IME.
They’ll come back into fashion though once the current egos in the roles have moved on.
I’ve not seen anyone else suggest it but have you thought about asking STW for a job, I mean well, you know…
Hamsters aren't cheap in the current climate, someones got to keep that treadmill revolving.
Welp, it's short - I cut out all the waffle from earlier jobs since they were all so long ago now. It's basically just a few paras about how awesome I am and what I have done in my current role, then a job history.
Welp, it’s short
send the new one plus the original one to one of the people on here who offered to scan it for you. We all have a terrible tendancy to downplay what we can do because we don't think it's important when it might just be what people want
(or start hunting ebay for a hamster costume 😉 )
The original one is going in the bin. It's.. a blast from the past. It's like a floppy blonde haircut with round glasses. It contains the acronym 'WAP'.
It contains the acronym ‘WAP’.
Ha! I think mine probably does as well.
WAP development in 2000, Nokia 8850s for testing, servers named after Matrix characters, jumpers for goalposts…
Might have a UML course lurking on my CV, that could probably go too 🙂
And in case you missed it, don’t try and shoehorn it into 2 pages. My current one is 6 pages long and has proved itself repeatedly over the past 10 years or so.
Edit - guess it’s time my PRINCE2, MSP and MoR quals were deleted.
Can’t quite decide on whether to bin the SAFe ones 🤦♂️
Yeah I was in two minds wether or not to keep the previous long winded job descriptions where I expounded how amazing I was in 2004 in an obsolete technology. Really the most recent role has been a fairly big change and that's what I wanted to focus on.
On the subject of LI and China:
An estimated 20,000 Britons have been approached by Chinese state actors on LinkedIn in the hope of stealing industrial or technological secrets, the head of MI5 has said.