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I was thinking the same thing. If you send out 100 resumes a week, how great a quality can any of them be? If only because of how exhausted and frustrated you get after sending out 100 resumes. Take your time, research some companies where you'd be a good fit and REALLY do your best to write an excellent cover letter and a tailored resume.
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Would be great if the scrolling part of table can also indicate that it can scroll. The first example, if seen on an iPhone, lines up perfectly so I wouldn't have known there is more to see.
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As a manager, I will almost never make a counter offer. If somebody has gotten to the point of a job offer elsewhere, their head will be out of the game.

This isn't necessarily true. You can get headhunted and receive offers for similar jobs at significantly higher pay. In these cases counter-offers make perfect sense for both sides.
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Yet you spilled them here on HN :)
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It is a term from sales. For a particular seller of something (say, talent) there are a pool of potential buyers. They're called leads. You learn about them or they come to you. Some of them are better fits than others. Lead qualification is the process of sorting out leads who are worth your effort in selling from those who are not, who you either a) don't attempt to sell or b) use less time-intensive ways of selling.

For example, I consult, and while in principle I could attempt to sell anyone with authority to write a check on consulting engagements, I don't. If I meet someone at a party and he says "I don't have a website but..." there is no possible end to that sentence whatsoever under which he is a good prospect for business in the near term. If you want a Rails programmer? Nope, sorry, I'm probably not your guy. If you're a software company with $10k in the bank, you can't afford a formal engagement with me. Strongly qualified leads for me tend to, e.g., have over 10 employees, profitable software businesses with revenue in the millions to tens of millions, multiple opportunities for things I can do for them, a business model which suggests ample opportunity for positive ROI at the rates I charge, and some reason to have personal trust for me.

To the extent that I do active sales work (e.g. flying out to a city to meet with your CEO, creating proposals, etc), I focus my active sales work on qualified leads, rather than "any business I could possibly think of."

Applying this to a job search: he's sending resumes to places which are not hiring. That isn't a strongly qualified lead. That's like me soliciting five figure checks off every passerby in Ogaki Station. Total waste of time.
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I want to work with you.

I've currently got a ~4' whiteboard, a ~13" laptop with a ~15" 4:3 monitor attached to it in my cube.

Takes some getting used to compared to the IdeaPaint-covered WALL at my home office and the two 24" widescreens.
I'm so totally with you on this part:

Take your time, research some companies where you'd be a good fit and REALLY do your best to

and then it needs to get followed with "convince the person with hiring authority in the company to hire you." The resume is designed to be rejected.
My parents (and I'm sure many others) pushed for resume blasts until the last couple of years. It makes sense from the perspective of the world they grew up in. You sent as many as you could and got a lot of job opportunities to choose from.

I sent out 15 highly targeted applications and got a 100% response rate. All of them were polite, mostly manually written rejections. I got one interview that went nowhere. That's when I decided I'd be better off starting my own business.
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Good advice. My question: is he strongly qualified for the positions he applies to? He doesn't mention having any particular skill.

He says he could get a job worth $36,000. But he thinks he's worth more. Maybe, but it's not clear why, from the article. I think our current system creates a mismatch between skills and expectations for new liberal arts grads.
That sucks when I read that, because I know how that feels.

Email me (in my profile) if you want to talk and bounce some ideas around and make life better.
> Indeed. I did copper too, in DOS x86 assembly. Some programs used it to practical effect: you can exceed 256 colors in an 8-bit framebuffer by swapping palette values mid-screen or mid-scanline.

This was used on the BBC Master enhanced version of Elite (and some other games or the era) to get a best-of-both-worlds choice of the Beeb's display modes. The bottom third of the screen was in mode 2 (low res, 4 bit colour depth (well, 3 bit plus flash-or-not)) to get the higher colour variation for the control displays and the top two thirds were in mode 1 (twice the resolution but only 2-bit colour depth) to get the higher resolution for the wireframe graphics.
To tell the difference between the two is the problem. An understanding of decent work environment varies from person to person. Is it better to have small or large offices? I'd say the larger the better, having working people around helps me concentrate. Does coffee benefit productivity? I'd say it certainly does not (contrast to a good nap at the right moment), and probably isn't very good for health. Now, if I'm a manager, do I put all employees in large spaces without a coffee machine around? Probably a bad idea.

IMO it's more important for the management to recognize and fulfill employee's real needs. Give people what they need before they ask for it. Because some would ask for wrong things (e.g., not knowing that the company can provide a better solution to their problem), and others will never ask for anything, continuing to suffer in silence.
While we're providing isolated, non-representative examples: I graduated in 2009 from a crappy Podunk school whose average SAT was 980 (on the old 1600 scale). It only costs about two grand a semester. I majored in CS. I had an internship at a credit union, then a job in insurance lined up before graduating, and then two years later I was hired by OkCupid. I have sent out exactly three resumes in my life, and never been rejected. I don't have any extraordinary accomplishments that I'm omitting.

As far as I can see, the economy is fine. Your mileage will almost certainly vary.
They forgot to include the kitchen sink!

I've been working on something with a tour creation focus for the last few years but for them that's just a footnote.

Superb effort or "jack of all trades, master of none?"
Reminds me of this true story of 2 women:

Esther1 was the born to a very poor family. Her parents were killed in an accident when she was 8 so she had to drop out of school and raise her 3 younger brothers. She worked hard and never had anything material for her entire life. She was an old lady when I was a child. Some of the things I clearly remember her saying:

"I love every one of you."
"I can't wait to see you again."
"We had a wonderful time!"
"Don't worry. It'll be fine."
"If you look for trouble, you'll probably find it. So don't look so much."
"I thank God every night of my life."

Esther2 came from almost identical circumstances. She was even born and died the same week as Esther1. Some of the things I remember her saying:

"Joe is so lucky. I could never get that lucky."
"You can't beat city hall, so why bother."
"Things would be different if we lived in a different neighborhood."
"They all inherited a lot but we inherited nothing."
"Life's not fair, sonny."
"If only I had more money."

Esther1 was my grandmother. Esther2 was her neighbor. Whenever I have OP's temptation to worry about my own happiness, I just look at the 4 letters on the wall above my desk, "WWGT" (What would Grandma think?) That "fixes" me every time.
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Smart working people can just go elsewhere. The hardworking people can make use of recycled computers scavenged off the street. If you can't wait 10 minutes for the test suite to run, things to compile or files to finish transferring - then you're just a wining bitch. Using old hard drives is fine, an SSD will just make the work easier. Work should be hard, and painful - otherwise it's just play. Why would you want to see multiple views of your data, when you can just flip between windows all the time and scroll a lot?
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"networking" is important. I'd have thought that "paying money to get into an event in order to network" was a sub-optimal version of networking.

I agree that zero responses to 100 letters and resumés mean that something is wrong with the letters or resumés. But the author claims to be researching and tailoring, so I'm not sure what's going wrong there.

Certainly that amount of research and work could be spent on building 'on spec' relationships with relevant companies.

EDIT:

> At this point, you're probably wondering why I'm not looking at retail, restaurant, or coffee shop jobs. The truth is that I am, but due to my resume, experience, and other such things, these places assume I'll leave as soon as something "corporate" pops up.

Well, you really need to tailor your application to be suitable for the jobs.
He's 29 and can't get married because the job market sucks and now he's a 21st century spinster? Jesus help this precious snowflake.
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How very 2004, I thought all the rockstar programmers these days did everything from starbucks on an 11" Macbook air or through an SSH session from their iPad!
I'm surprised school systems aren't claiming "work for hire" copyright on the lesson plans. I don't think they should, it's just that this is the way that these things typically play out.
I think that's stretching the definition; NaCl is part of the runtime environment, but only as a sandbox which programs won't notice unless they go off the rails. Unless you meant Pepper, which does provide enough platform support for a port of the flash plugin. But Pepper is an API, and the functionality it gives access to would be part of Chrome anyway.
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I'm guessing you are from a part of the world that is/was recently totalitarian.

The community of people is far, far more than the State. Cultural/religious norms shape the State and the rules. If corruption is tolerated, for example, it doesn't matter what the official State rules are.

Furthermore, economics are baked in to human nature. Indeed, gender differences are a kind of specialization of labor. Economic activity and surplus allows the creation of the State, not the other way around. In fact, while certain State activities like protecting property rights advances the Economy, most activity by the State is parasitic on the Economy.
> Federal prosecutors say they should not have to sort through the files at taxpayer expense, but have objected to their erasure.

Umm, what? The prosecutors don't think they should be responsible for obtaining and examining the evidence to build their case? Who the hell else should be? It's _exactly_ what they are being paid to do!

I fully agree that they shouldn't be wasting taxpayer money on it, but only because they shouldn't be wasting it on this case in the first place. If it were a case that actually merited attention, though (say, 25 PB of child porn or snuff video), "we shouldn't have to pay to store and handle this much evidence" would be an unacceptable response. I can only hope that it's motivated by a desire to somewhat gracefully rid themselves of a toxic case.
If these questions persist within you then act in accordance with fulfilling them - figure out how you get those things, treat it like a game. But don't make your happiness contingent on them and think twice before sacrificing the present for the future. There are plenty of people with wealth who are never satisfied and would base their happiness on the 'thing they don't have' (car, house, yacht, plane etc). It places happiness artificially always out of reach - which is a shame. We all get one ride on the rock.
Why am I not surprised he's not finding someone willing to hire a 29 year old with zero work experience.

Others have a CV reaching back 5+ years at that age.

Don't put that much time exclusively into uni unless you intend to stay in science or aim for a cushy cubicle job that hires on the premise of paper-planes.
Value can be measured in currency. When the target audience of some product has no currency, you could say that economically it has no value. Whereas if you ask these penniless people, they will tell you that it has enormous value to them.

Therefore, placing currency in the hands of the masses can and will drive value creation, because it will assign economic value to what brings value to the masses.
Here's another columnists retort that you may enjoy - http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/05/17/matt-gurney-o...
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What's new about it? It's rare these days to get your own office for any job. Open plan somehow took over all the workplaces to all our detriment.
I can't say you're wrong. I only wonder what it would take to change that...
I suppose from the employer's POV a resume is a lead, but from the job seeker's POV, the notion that there exists a possible target for a resume/cover letter is a lead. There is a time and focus cost to sending out a resume/cover letter (or doing stuff that actually works, like trying to get a coffee date with a decisionmaker there). You should not spend your limited time on opportunities which are unlikely to convert into mutually rewarding relationships. Getting your resume circular-filed is the least mutually rewarding relationship I can think of in the employment space.
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I've come to realize I'd be more happy whenever I have more freedom. Freedom is quite abstract, but for me it envelopes economic freedom and freedom to make my own decisions in work. I enjoy my work as a software developer, but I hate the processes around it in a lot of company settings. I feel a company like Valve gives it's employees a lot of freedom and I wish more companies would treat their employees the same way.

For the aforementioned reasons I'll be starting a company with a friend in June / July of this year. This friend of mine will work on acquiring the leads (he's proven in the last few years he can get work for me) while my main focus will be on developing the solutions for the clients and guiding our clients through the realization process. With this company we will aim for the following goals:
- earn much more money, I expect I can make around 2000 to 3000 EUR more a month in this setting, though I have to spend some of this money on benefit my employer would normally pay for (holidays, retirement, etc...).
- use my own work processes (I'm not very fond of SCRUM for example - at least not in the way it's executed at my current employer).
- take a leadership / guiding role in some projects, especially since we expect we'll be able to outsource some work within a year or so. We've already worked with an Android developer from eastern Europe recently and this worked out well for us. We can imagine making use of more eastern European mobile developers if we don't have the time ourselves for the projects.
- be more flexible with my working hours. My currently employer wants me in the office from 09:00 - 17:00, while I prefer to work from say 09:00 - 13:00, followed by some relaxation / sports and work again between 18:00 and 00:00.

The money will help me gain more economic freedom once I've payed off my mortgage and student loan dept. I don't necessarily need to live in a giant house, but I would like to have a second home in a southern-European country from where I can work in the winter seasons - this is a long term goal I'll strive for.

I believe that by constantly visualizing my goals I will get closer to achieving them. I promised myself I will realize the above goals before I reach the age of 40 (currently I'm 30 years old).
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"Owning a home that's bigger than 500 square feet. (hint: that's not big.) "

That's U.S. entitlement for you. 500 square feet is perfectly reasonable, I live on about the same, and I rent it (and I'm 31 years old).

A 500 square feet small apartment in Barcelona is about 200.000 euros right now, and 80.000 here in Uruguay.

I agree that it's not ideal for raising kids, but it's not something to whine about.

Edit: as others pointed out, most have a lot of work experience by 29 years old. I had 8 years' experience at the time and I expect people in the U.S. to have even more since they graduate earlier and have summer jobs and all that.

Also, he says he can make 36.000 dollars/year?, well you can save a bit and try your hand overseas. During hard times, people emigrated in the past. My grandparents did, and endured hardships. In the U.S., you might have read about pilgrims. I doubt they complained about not being able to afford a dog. And being a foreigner has a charm that will make you popular with girls (not to mention the U.S. passport if it comes to that).
> Why is it that people care so much about how many females there is this industry?

We want more good people at a lower labor cost. That means recruiting from groups that have the necessary abilities and are under-recruited. Girls are severely under-recruited in the quantitative fields, so it would really help to have more of them.
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And only if the target audience of that value has currency.
I can empathize with his frustration as my wife, early 30s,is going through similar issues searching for jobs. Most people, wife included, don't realize that job search is not about blasting a 100 uninspiring resumes on Monster.com and hoping they get noticed.
I've tried to explain to her the concept of networking her way through companies to reach individuals in decision making position and also to keep tweaking her resume to align her existing skills with the job description she's applying for, but hey, it's always easier to get frustrated and vent.
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I read the $36,000 job as the one he was now aiming for, but hasn't found yet. I.e. that, failing in his attempt to find an entry-level position in a finance or business type setting (the sort of high-stress, high-pay, 70 hr/wk "ambitious" route), he's now turning his sights towards a "lifestyle job", a 40 hr/wk, $36k job at a ski resort or that kind of place.
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You could just print the data in a book instead of putting them on a website.

Oh woops never mind (http://www.diybookscanner.org/).
I feel his pain. We just got done interviewing someone who had studied "web page" design. It's sad because whatever he was taught for those 4 years (while getting a 3.96 GPA) amounted to a very limited skill set. His designs were half there but his ability to actually apply or use them to a problem weren't.

This is a recurring theme in many applicants that walk through our doors. There's tons of degrees I've never heard of that make me think "There's a degree in that!?" Most have no applicable skills. Most don't even know what they need to know. Finally, most don't have a way to learn it without a mentor to guide them.
Rubbish. It certainly sounds like he has made an effort to at least bring money in, and has had jobs.

However, this tells me it is not hard to find a job, just hard to find a nice job. This is different. Having a nice job is an incredible luxury nobody has an inherent right to...

This opinion is compounded by various complaints about immigrants "taking" jobs. The truth is everybody feels they are entitled to do something amazing - regardless of if they are good enough. Some of us have to suck it up and stack shelves or staff factories...

Aspiring to more is great and everyone should do that imo. But reality might mean working a lot of crap jobs in the meantime to survive.

Survival is shockingly easy in today's world. Not surviving requires a concerted effort in fact...

To sum up. I think this complaint is valid when worded properly - its just completely unimportant.
Why would he be going to prison in Singapore? Is he known for breaking laws?

It's also amusing that you denigrate Singapore for their "numerous and extremely punitive criminal laws" when the incarceration rate in Singapore is roughly a third of that in the US.
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I happily spent my $30 on that Double Fine project. Then Leisure Suit Larry came up, then numerous other remakes, now this...

Frankly, many a developer has produced crap games for a great franchise. I don't like spending money on crap games. Now maybe all of these will turn out great! But maybe not.

I am pretty sure Double Fine will be able to crank out great stuff like they always do. Al Lowe is a big name, too, even though his last big success is already ancient history.

But this one... Just as venture capitalists won't fund people they don't trust, I won't kickstart something with dubious value. I rather give to charity than support people who might waste it.

If it turns out great, I'll happily buy it though. If you can't convince me of that though, I rather give the same money to a cool open source project. Seriously, I do this regularly.
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I don't think that's only U.S. entitlement; raising a family in a 46 m^2 home would be considered quite small in most of Europe, even in the poorer countries. Though it depends on where you live more than anything, even within one country. A 46 m^2 apartment in an expensive city like Barcelona, and a 46 m^2 apartment or house in a small Spanish town occupy pretty different market positions.

If he's complaining about not being able to afford a >500 sq ft apartment in Manhattan, I agree that'd be pretty entitled, analogous to the Barcelona example. I'm guessing he's not in Manhattan, though.
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Hi, I actually tried e-mailing you, as I'm having this same situation. However I received a reply from gmail that "Hotmail can not find this address". I would actually like to talk with you, and find any ideas for help, if you're willing.
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All of this is totally true and yet many people still struggle with the same problem. In other words, even though people know that they should enjoy what they have, they can't help but think about what they don't have. For me, sometimes I find myself thinking: "I am going to enjoy what I have and not worry so much about the future...as soon as I get x, y or z".