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my favorite tweets about the DISASTROUS “wuthering heights” adaptation

I need to share who she fucking cast as Edgar Linton. Because she knows this is who Heathcliff should’ve been. This is trolling at this point and it’s egregious. It’s SO messed up.

rylandgracie

my favorite tweets about the DISASTROUS “wuthering heights” adaptation

tinasnowz

theestallion: Hot girl Cujoh

beaft

do genuinely find it fascinating how indeed.com is like the biggest job-hunting website out there and yet manages to be profoundly useless in every possible way

beaft

i apply for a job. i never hear back.

i search for "entry level jobs". i am shown listings for things like "military intelligence officer", "senior veterinary surgeon", and "forklift engineer".

i search for "jobs in bookselling". i am told that there are 9 bookselling jobs in my area. when i read the listings, 8 of these 9 jobs are care assistant roles and the 9th is a pyramid scheme.

i search for "jobs within 5 miles of my location". i am shown jobs that are on the other side of the country.

i type in "proofreading". i am shown listings for "ai training".

i search "creative industry jobs". half the listings are for finance companies and the other half require a degree in data science.

i receive an email. "based on your profile, indeed thought you would be a great match for this opportunity!" the linked job requires a degree that i do not have and 5 years of experience in a field that i know nothing about. the email does not explain why this opportunity would be "a great match".

i receive an email. "based on your profile, indeed thought you would be a great match for this opportunity!" in the body of the email, it warns me that i will not be able to apply for the job it has sent me because i do not meet the criteria.

i apply for a job with a temp agency. i never hear back. 2 weeks later the agency website goes down and never comes back up again.

i apply for a job. 6 months later i get a stock email telling me my application has been unsuccessful.

i apply for a job. i never hear back.

elfwreck

The value of indeed.com is not in searching for jobs.

It's in employers searching for you.

Look at the job listings you like. Rewrite your resume to look good for the people who wrote those job listings. (Don't lie, but check their phrasing, check their skills requirements, highlight the features they're looking for, and so on.)

I don't think I've ever gotten a job by applying at Indeed. I've gotten several from having my resume there when someone was looking.'

Update your resume every two weeks. Even if you're just changing a comma or adding and removing a space at the end of a paragraph. Employers can see when the resume was updated, and they tend to assume anything that's been there longer than a month is probably not relevant anymore - you already have a job.

(You will get a regular trickle of "job offers" from real estate sales companies. Ignore these. I tended to reply with "I have no interest or skills in sale, but I'm good with document management. Do you have any jobs that focus on that and don't involve customer outreach?" I never heard back from them, which was the desired result.)

When you get contacted about a job: Ignore everything about experience & education required. Look at what the job actually does, and figure out if you think you can do that. If so, tell them you have the skills to do the job.

The skills/education requirements are set by idiots who look at "who did this job most recently, and what were their skills?" So that's "what we expect from someone who's done this job for 3+ years."

the email does not explain why this opportunity would be "a great match".

You matched a couple of keywords they're looking for. The algorithm that does these suggestions does not notice things like "I lack several things this job requires"; it just checks "ooh you have 5 words that this job wants!"

If you're consistently getting bad matches for a particular kind of job, review your resume and see if you can figure out which words are getting hit for those, and if you can reasonably remove them. (Sometimes you can't. I do document processing, which sounds close to "data processing," so... I get offers for database coding, which I can't do. I ignore them.)

Your goal for your resume is not to get you a job. It's to get you an interview. Your goal with the interview is to get you a job. Your resume is only incidentally relevant at that point. The purpose of the resume is to convince someone, "I want to talk to this person about this kind of job." That's all. The details should all be focused around "If I were hiring someone for my dream job, this is the list of details I would be looking for."

The most value you're likely to get from the job listings is "these are the currently trendy phrases."

Also: You're not misunderstanding anything; the job market & job search system is whack. Is seriously broken. There is so much wrong with it. AI is not making it better. I'm sorry. It sucks.

moon-meerkat

reblogging this even though it doesn't help rn as ive never been employed and just want a part-time internship in public law

maswartz

theflaminggoat

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cryoverkiltmilk

My ⅛ French blood is pounding in my ears.

love-byers

bisexuality demons were kicking his ass

sir-illmatic

Nostalgia💚

We all we got

cartoonbudartz

Fifteen years ago, the tv animation world was changed forever when a little show about a sailor boy with an adventurous spirit premiered on CN. Although it’s run was short, the series led to a renaissance of animated shows, such as Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Regular Show, and more. So thanks, Flapjack, for being the godfather of 2010s animation.

classycookiexo

This is literally so iconic

daffsforstag

As the fall season rolls around, I am reminded of my two children.

So proud of my boys..

zegalba

bebs-art-gallery

Dante's Inferno (1861)

— by Gustave Doré

Literally hate warner bros discovery for completely eradicating cartoon network. Grew such an attachment to that channel and their shows and the fact that the reason it’s disappearing is because some rich fuck wants to hoard more money for himself makes me sick to my stomach

#cartoon network #warner bros