The labor market isn’t going to decline that much in our lifetime.

I’m reading 100 resumes because they got past the automated scan system. I interview about 5 because an interview requires a lot of investment on our part. Interviewing 100 people means we can’t get anything else done. My job isn’t to hire people it is get engineering work done.

The point is they are looking for different information and putting that information into the parts humans will read makes the humans more likely to reject you.

Sometimes humans and the machine care about the same thing, but when there is a difference you don’t want the humans to reject you for having information the machine needs.

Last time we were hiring my boss gave me 50 resumes to read and half an hour to get the job done. Not only is that less than a minute each, but the ones I forwarded on got 3-5 minutes (as did 1-2 rejects), if you want to be hired you need to capture my attention in a few seconds - anything that won’t capture my attention needs to not be on the resume even if the machine needs it.

It isn’t redundant.

You want your resume for humans to read, which means your respect their time (remember they have the power and you as unemployed have time) so they don’t throw you into the trash. That means you ensure that the things in your background that make you look good to them are easy to find.

You want the forms to be things that the machine is looking for, even if they are not interesting. The machine might verify so don’t lie, but a lot of things the machine is looking for are boring things that the box needs to be checked - since they are boring you don’t want them on a resume - but not having them someplace means the machine rejects you.

There shouldn’t be the same data except for intentional or trivial duplication. Your resume is for humans to read. The form is for machines to verify you can do the job and that you really have experience for the job level. These are different purposes and need to be treated differently.

Write your resume for humans to read, so figure out what they are looking for and give them that. sometimes 5 years in a job is just one line “I wasn’t letting my experience rot but otherwise you don’t care so I won’t waste you time”, while a single year of interesting to them work can be 15 lines.

Write the machine forms to be honest - they might check that you really worked those dates and had the job title so don’t lie. They will flag a gap in dates but the 2 years fast food is just as good as anything else. They know what java is so if that is a checkbox item you better have it, but they don’t know the difference between 10 years extensive experience and I saw java for 15 minutes every year for the last 10. (don’t lie about your abilities, but if you know the job won’t be writing java you just need to convince the machine you have enough java to check the box and move onto the humans who make decisions).

Note that I assume above you have done some research. You can’t always figure out if a job that wants 10 years java really is writing java, or if java is a buzzword - but often you can. Don’t submit any resume until you have 15 minutes research into the job/company, but time limit your research to no more than a couple hours (set a timer at 1 hour and decide if either the research is interesting anyway; or you know you have a good chance and are learning things that give you a better chance).

Good leadership is dearly needed in the world and so we pay for even the hope that someone might be. Technical skills are important, but not as important

So why am I bald. Worse, I’m the whitest person in whatever city I’m in (when I was in Stockholm it was a tie), and as such burn easially if the sun hits my head.

Focus your spamming on jobs that you have a reasonable shot of getting should they read the resume. Even 10 minutes of research on a company can often figure out something you can put on a resume and cover letter that would greatly help your chances.

@rimu@piefed.social Same as everything else - nothing as a whole, but there is enough commonality with any individual group that the whole stands.

Start with a problem. What you trying to solve. Hosting music is different from backing up your computer. That is different from a home dashboard.

The vast majority of blind people can see the sun. Blind really means that their vision is so bad that we cannot correct it to anything close to normal and not that they see anything at all. Each experience is different, but likely they can see enough that for purposes of your question they are not blind.

For most people the short answer is, mains power is so reliable that it’s not worth your bother to worry about the emergency situations. As long as things work, even a significant amount of inefficiency doesn’t add up. So stop worrying, just get things working.

If, on the off chance, you actually are using emergency power a lot, for whatever reason, then yes, this is a worrying about. In that case, you no longer want a short answer. You need a long, complex answer that covers all the different possibilities. So you need to start studying. Be prepared to spend months working at all the details for your specific situation.

Because I have no idea if the questioner is going to do that beforehand

Songs are often mastered differently for different media. Streaming services often do this automatically. Mastering is why vinyl often sounds better than CD even though CD should be better, CDs enabled the loudness wars which vinyl couldn’t handle so vinyl got a more musical content.

If you know what to look for you can often find them growing wild as well.

I would expect that several guns groups are. Unless this is a biased article and there is something we are not told - this is all too common.

Note that gun organizations tend to support black people owning guns.

Strict working hours are important for jobs like assembly line work where if you are not at your station nobody else can do any work. Often they do build enough slack in that they expect you can take a couple bites here and there between doing your work. Though this isn’t the most sanitary so it isn’t common anymore.

For anyone doing work that doesn’t depend on others being at their station at the same time a strict shift doesn’t make sense, and there are not many assembly lines left like that (the assembly lines I have seen lately are much shorter and your team of 10 needs to work the same shift but your team can choose lunch time, and if you get the team’s work done faster everyone can even get an extended lunch.

1 hour lunch means you are expected to leave the office (or at least not work). Some countries get really strict about a one hour lunch break where you don’t do any work and so it is carefully enforced there.

Ar15, but they are the same other than details

While many hunters own an ar15, they’re not a popular hunting round. The typical M16 doesn’t have enough power to take down the deer. You own ar15 because it’s fun to fire once in a while. You want a more powerful rifle or often shotgun depending on where you are because that’s what puts foods on the table. If you want to challenge, you will get a bow and arrow or a muzzle loader. They’re lots of fun. However, they take a lot more practice.

There is no one best hunting gun. That is why hunters will tend to own at least four or five guns. You want a 20-gauge shotgun for small birds. You want a 12-gauge for larger birds. You need a small rifle, say a .22 or something in that range for your squirrels and rabbits. And then you need a bigger gun, like a .30-06 common for your deer. Since guns do break once in a while, you will try and have a couple spares. Usually you’re hunting with a buddy and if a buddy has a spare that would be good enough that you can borrow it if you need it. But for one of your hunting trips, you will be that buddy that the other person borrows from. Often when you’re young you will buy a cheap gun that works but it’s not very good and so you’ll keep that while you buy a more expensive one which again adds to your collection.

Edit the ar15 is what hunters would have

You can, but access to medical care will be hard and that is important to retired people in a way younger don’t understand. Access means you want a good hospital with doctors on staff who know how to treat you. There are stroke procedures only a few hospitals know how to do that are much better than typical treatment elsewhere as on example.