Advice for finding employment.

# Pro tips

[recruiter](https://twitter.com/slizagna/status/1356652219932626944)

- Focus on what you have *accomplished* and *can quantify* rather than
  job responsibilities
- Include graduation date!
- Save resume as first and last name, not 'resume'
- Tailor the resume to match the job and add key words. idea: automate
  this?
- Always remember: a resume is for an interview, not a job. Just give
  them enough information to encourage them to interview you.

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# Great questions for interviews

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20916749>: Questions to ask during
a job interview. (<https://github.com/viraptor/reverse-interview>).
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23516751>: Storytelling for
technical interviews.

- "Could you resolve this merge conflict with me?"
  - Get a feel for their critical thinking and communication skills
  - Test their knowledge with git
  - Test their critical thinking in a pair programming session, learn
    about how they think about a programming language you expect them to
    be comfortable in.

# Making hiring decisions

[How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model · Erik
Bernhardsson](https://erikbern.com/2020/01/13/how-to-hire-smarter-than-the-market-a-toy-model.html)

- Start with some root evaluation
- Figure out how what your priorities differ from market, then arbitrage

[GitHub - jakeisnt/managers-playbook: Heuristics for effective
management](https://github.com/jakeisnt/managers-playbook)

# Resources

[Front-end Interview Handbook](https://github.com/yangshun/front-end-interview-handbook)  
Great resources for front-end developer interview questions.

[Leetcode Patterns](https://seanprashad.com/leetcode-patterns/)  
The most common Leetcode questions with links to the corresponding
problems. Useful for interview studying and preparation.

# Career

[Ask HN: What has your career looked like? \| Hacker
News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22990872)

# Mentorship

[Ask HN: How does your organisation train programmers? \| Hacker
News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24097348)

# Optimizing Resume

## Parsing

You can see how common recruitment tools parse your resume. An optimally
parsed resume will ease autofilled applications at the least, and at
best will get your resume to more recruiters at a company.

This can be accomplished by leveraging the browser's dev tools:

1.  Find a job posting that makes use of
    [lever](https://jobs.lever.co)'s recruiting software (e.g.
    Coursera).
2.  Progress to the initial lever page. This page should have a
    'jobs.lever.co' domain and fields for basic personal information,
    including resume submission.
3.  Open the developer console and switch to the 'Network' tab.
4.  Upload your resume to the application. You should see a
    'parseResume' HTTP POST request. Double-click the request and you
    can view your resume as parsed along with a discription and some
    preliminary analytics information.