That is called "hustler" these days on CVs

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That is called "hustler" these days on CVs- Grapevine

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

last 4 years i’ve been freelancing and i’m currently looking for new opportunities. how should i put freelancing on my resume?

freelancing on resume

Software Developer

Every other Tom, Dick, Harry is writing 'Operator' in their linkedin/insta bio after 4-5 years of experience. What is it exactly supposed to mean?

What the heck is a 'Operator' bro?

Product Manager

For salescloud org itself we have 100+ open positions, hiring for all levels MTS, SMTS, LMTS, PMTS, Manager, Sr Manager, Director, Sr Director.

These positions for all roles Development, Fullstack, QA, performance testing, Product Manager, UX etc

Please DM me for referrals.

Or share me your profile at abhiramdec18@gmail.com

I have job ids for these roles handy.

Salesforce is aggressively hiring in India

Software Test - QA

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Recruiters and hiring managers - Do you really care how a resume is named? 
Does Firstname.pdf vs FirstNameLastName.pdf change your short listing decision?
Saw a reel on Instagram which is promoting people to name their resume FirstName_LastName_CV.pdf or get rejected. I feel it’s just BS to get engagement

Resume naming convention and hiring decision

Founder

Hello,

Have been continually updating my resume and applying over the past year. Having difficulty even getting a short list or get an exploratory call. 

Is there any red flags that might be causing it? Would appreciate any feedback.

Got an offer for 10lpa from an analytics company, on notice period at Infosys till mid March. Hoping for an offer within that timeframe. At any established product based company, target is 15-18 lpa.

Have one interview in the works and also the client I’m working for through Infosys has verbally told me they are planning to offer 15lpa. 

Would also appreciate any advice 🙂
 Thank you

Resume Review

hi folks, wanted to know from people working at smaller (less known) companies as to how much the previous companies you’ve worked at matter while interviewing for FAANG roles? is the hiring primarily driven by algorithms and design questions performance? will working in a small stealth company be a blocker? is there someone who worked in a small company and moved places, if you can share experience. 

-asking while interviewing for 1-2 YOE roles

breaking into SDE1/2 roles

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Hey folks,

Having 3.3 YOE. In one of my past stints I left a company in 2 months due to toxic work culture and joined a better company. 

I am a junior product manager. Will this short stint create problems for further opportunities?

Need suggestions.

Is my career ruined? 😰

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I guess a rant as well as seeking advice. I started my first company at the age of 22 right out of college. It was semi successful. Scaled it to a few crore in revenue but because of some issues had to close it down. Worked on a few products again which again did alright but not enough to giving me savings. This experience ranged from software to e-commerce. Building different products. I’m now 31, and started a biotech company about a year back. However stuff has been slow. I’ve barely any savings and funding in my space is scare. So it’s been small government grants. I’ve realised that if this doesn’t take off, after 10 years of struggle I probably need to look for a job atleast for a few years. (Won’t ever give up on starting up. I’m a fighter that way.)

My resume is eclectic. I’ve done all sorts of stuff with mediocre success. But don’t have a defined skillset. (Like being a programmer for example).  I guess one skillset I can say I have is identify and opportunity. Also I have tremendous stress tolerance and ability to work. 

What should I do? Should I eventually look for a job? If yes, honestly I don’t even know what job profile I’ll go for. Because I’ve never done a job ever. 

I’m confused. I’m not married and don’t plan to. For me me, running a company is everything and I’m willing to sacrifice everything else for it. (Includes not being married so that I don’t have pressure to maintain the lifestyle married life entails.)

Sorry for the long post. 

Also great respect to you guys who’ve made it :) and also to the once struggling. It’s us who keep the economy ticking at great personal cost of health and finance. Fighters.

10 years of failure

I have a total of 2 years of experience and changed 3 companies in 2 years so I left my first organisation in 6 months because There was no personal growth in that team then been layoff from 2 organisations in a period of 1.5 years these layoffs were due to financial issues in company not any performance issue so now in interviews I was asked why you change company so quick how should I answer this question and how does this impact my impression

Interview Suggestion

I mean, which world didi is living in? Yesterday only I saw construction workers from my state doing back breaking work in a construction site near my house.
When I talked to them, they told how hard it is to live in BLR, and how they also have to go to their villages in few months for harvesting.

And then I saw this didi, telling poor people don't work *hard*. Gen Z is morally fucked.

theadityadas on Twitter

Privilege is invisible to those who have it

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Context: 10.5 YOE, Marketing lead. I've been looking for a switch since September last year. I'd seen signs of maybe my role or the company itself folding very early and knew 'twas time to bolt. But it's not that easy. Back then - 1 year in a startup meant hey not bad, people still spoke to you and considered your profile. These days, they treat you like Ebola if you've not had your ass stuck in the same place for 3-5 years. 

Anyway, so the majority of my time searching for jobs was the shitty Easy Apply or IIMJOBS premium account route. Suprise suprise. It doesn't work. But hey I was still employed and not nearly as motivated as someone who's unemployed. 

Cut to layoffs: Got laid off with my whole team and a huge chunk of other leaders. My first layoff, felt hilariously like the last day of school. To the org's credit they gave us 3 month severance, leave encashments and extra months for those who'd been there for 2 years+. In hindsight hearing the horror stories of 2k severance from Byju's. I'm grateful for the nice golden parachute I got. I'll be honest, it contributed heavily to my mental stability. I had time, I had leverage, I didn't have to run for the first shitty opportunity that came my way. 

The How I did it (why you struggled through the above stream of consciousness) 

- Wrote to 159 founders with one pagers to 35 of them with ideas on how i'd lead their marketing function. 5 replies. 3 interviews. 2 offers - didn't take em cuz they were super early stage or diff cities. This is immediately in month 1 so I've already started feeling icky about not getting great brands to have in my set. 
- Easy Applied to 768 (I ran a Gmail search, this is a real number) jobs. 99% no responses or you've been rejected. 
-Kept changing one letter on my Naukri.com profile, got me 6 calls, 3 interviews and 1 conversion 

I think theres a word limit to posts 🥲 following up as comments below.

Finally got a job (here's the do's and dont's)

Part 3 
  
 - Add HRs and hiring managers on LinkedIn, send them free ideas and strategies. Its ok if they steal them it meant they were great. One of them will refer you, remember you or hire you. 
 - Have a CV and a summary (half a page) that gets people excited about wanting to read the CV. Only areas of expertise and bullet points for results  
 - Don't put the OpentoWork filter on your LinkedIn DP. Its radioactive. I know people actively avoid those profiles. But make sure to keep open to work beacon on for recruiters. It pushes you ahead  
 - Dont post low effort i need a job because im laid off, i dont have money, copy pasted by millions on Linkedin. If you're gonna publically ask for a job, make sure that post has enuff of your skillset screaming for a potential hirer to want to explore more. Else you'll get velle gadhe typing CFBR 
 - Dont be anal or choosy about interviewing, i literally gave 35-50 in 3 months that culminated in 4 offers. Each one taught me something, heck ive spoken to startups with 7 peeps in it  
 - The only one that can negotiate CTC is the one that can walk away. When the offer i wanted finally came, my fixed went down a tad, but variable increased. The role was worth it so i didnt bother negotiating. Places i wasnt excited about - oh i quoted 30% hikes and got it at one place :p

Brand Marketing Manager

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

Forgive me my Sins

In 2017, after graduating, I joined a big IT corporate as an Associate Consultant (Engineer). My start date was delayed by six months, and four months in, I was benched with half my already very low pay.

Money was tight with rent and other expenses. My family expected me to start investing in jewellery and buying land.

I was new to Bangalore and wanted more money to visit bars and expensive restaurants every weekend. Wanted to buy a bike with good gear. Along the dream to have a girl riding behind me. Sab Aukat ke bahar.

As one does, I started looking out into startups. The problem - 0 relevant work ex.

So here it goes,
I had interned at a startup in college and knew what their documents looked like. Filled the 6 empty months in my CV with a job as a “SDE-I Android” working with the founder directly.
I spiced up my CV with claims of 2x load time, reducing costs, international team collaboration, and an award.
Some college awards to boot too!

I made a detailed fake job story, read interview books, solved questions and watched salary negotiation videos. Eventually, I got into a Series A startup with only having to make 1 fake certificate.
They never checked with my previous employers, and now I earn eight times what I would have.

The guilt and imposter syndrome haunted me until I started performing well. I still feel guilty, like last Holi when my family praised my achievements.

Just excused myself and went for a smoke and a ride out. The bike is here and it is a custom painted beauty.

Guilty thoughts still go by occasionally but I am becoming more and more comfortably numb to it every passing year.

I have since stopped outright lying and just partake in the standard resume inflation.

Had to let this out.

I am a resume liar

Why do so many people work in the Big 4 given that you have to work so many hours and your work life balance doesn’t exist.

Is having a Big 4 on your CV really worth all of that hassle and not having a life in your 20s? 

What about you guys? What are your personal reasons for staying with the big 4?

Why do you work in the Big 4? [Deloitte, EY, PwC, KPMG]

I am a CA and a banker. I worked for 5 years with ICICI. Switched 2 jobs in next 3 years. Now with ICICI again.. whether I should stay for long term here or keep switching.

Switching Jobs?

Sales Manager

In India, it's the norm where candidate has to show all his cards (past 3 salary slips or increment letter etc) to prospect employer which sets the benchmark. However, the candidate usually has no idea abt the pay range for the JD, the KRAs, team strength, budget, and the monetary value he is expected to bring to the firm. Most firms also put 90day notice period which makes it difficult to change jobs.

How do you folks try to negotiate pay?
What %hike over current is a starting point?
If no other offer is in hand, but the firm is strong arming you to a less pay, how have you/would you negotiated in such scenario?

Salary negotiation

Investment Manager

Not all the founders are smart some are just lucky!

Growth Manager

I have around 4.5 YOE
I started from a service based company where I had clients like PwC and Tata Play
Then moved to Target as a Data Engineer
Last month, I switch from Target after 2 years, to CRED as Backend engineer.
How’s my journey so far?
Current CTC, 34 fixed.
How am I doing?
I plan to switch after I have around 6-6.5 YOE?
How likely is it for me to crack a job in another reputed US/EU company or maybe one outside India?

Any career tips you can give?

Career prospects?

Damn 🥲

Corporate Strategist

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what other bullsh*t words/statements do you use in your resume ?

Senior Software Engineer

One of my close friends is not liking the work in the current company due to the terrible WLB. He is planning to switch to a new company but doesn't want to show this current company experience of 3+ months. Have you ever come across such a situation? What's the best thing to do? If he reveals to the new employer then it won't be good on his resume because the company previous to the current one laid off 50% of employees and unfortunately he got affected too in that layoffs. So, due to tough market conditions he has joined a startup and realised that he can't sustain here for long.

Please guide if it's alright not to put the last 3 months experience in the resume and apply for new jobs.

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