I love such stories. Right now, a lot of folks I know are struggling to find jobs, so I read the part about how he got a job the first day he was out of jail with some astonishment and nostalgia for the simpler days, when showing interest was often enough to land the job! Now, hoop number 1, the AI resume filter, is a strange obstacle that one has to jump through first.

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gavinray 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The job market is rough. My wife went back to school for audio/sound design, finished the program + got a bunch of certifications.

She's been trying to get anything, even an unpaid internship, doing sound design, going to local meetups, online conferences, and hasn't had much luck.

But I told her: it's just a matter of persistence and time. If you're agreeable to be around, passionate about something, and just show up everyday, eventually something is likely to happen.

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jzemeocala 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As someone who has worked in the music sphere with many hats over the past few decades: her best shot is to get people talking about her, perhaps find some local musicians she likes and offer cheap\free recordings to fill in her portfolio and get that word of mouth started.

Successful people in the music world (both on and off stage) HAVE to mingle with musicians (not other engineers) heavily to get noticed and recommended

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firesteelrain 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I applied to 100+ places in 2005. Took a job an hour from home for a year and half. Eventually found something closer to home. You take what you can find at the time until you find where you want to be

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gerdesj an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm from the UK and another age 8)

I applied for about 50+ jobs as a graduate engineer in 1991. Back then you wrote letters. Hmmm: You printed letters - mail merge was a thing.

You signed each one by hand, with a quill pen and used a wax seal and cast a Spell of Engagement.

OK, you signed your covering letter with a pen (might be a Biro but I did use a Parker and Quink, myself) You also had to put your covering letter and curriculum vitae (CV == resume) in an envelope and pop a stamp on it (2nd class) and post it. None of that Linked In bollocks.

Your covering letter would be bespoke to the company approached. You did some research and mentioned something pertinent.

Nowadays I'm the employer.

	▲	firesteelrain an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Wow! I applied over and over using Monster dot com.

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Joel_Mckay 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Without a portfolio it will be difficult.

Would recommend joining a local film club, and get a few small projects done. Additionally, volunteer with local church events, or regular city music festivals.

Also, could join the local union intake for the production studios. It will be awful until one gets the base hours completed, but it is a feast or famine kind of work schedule some can tolerate. Fine work if you are still a kid.

Finding stuff online is usually a fools errand these days mostly due to "AI" data mining operations, or outright cons. Best of luck =3

	▲	ChrisMarshallNY 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The key, for me, was to get a computer. Once I had that, the world opened up. It allowed me to "get my hands dirty," and experiment, as well as build a portfolio. To this day, I have a large amount of public code. It's a habit that I've had, all my adult life.

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zuzululu 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The answer to AI resume filter is AI, if you are not utilizing it as part of your job application process to magnify your output then you are likely going to get bottlenecked from the supply side of the market.

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trumpdong 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why'd people downvote this? The minimum you need to be doing is pasting role descriptions and your résumé into ChatGPT and asking: should I hire this person? Because that's what every company's HR department is doing (automatically) and if the answer is no, then you may as well not bother sending the application. Or you could tweak it until it says yes.

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zuzululu 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think earlier there were few HN users who didn't like my opinions on another thread, came here to flag and downvote my comments and leave rather mean replies all over my profile. I don't think much of it and I forgive people who do it.

Or maybe there really are people who think its okay to use AI to hire/filter candidates but not when candidates use AI to optimize to get around that screen. Using AI, I've been able to land several interviews and work 3 jobs remotely currently without much effort.

	▲	trumpdong 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How did you do that? I don't get many interviews even after making sure AI likes my resume.

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stringfood 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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ofjcihen 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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