We Used to Get Jobs
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Unpopular take: This was significantly better for employers and employees.It worked as both an effort and presentation filter which both reduced the overload of candidates, allowing for more attention, higher variation of skills that didnt often show like traditional resume bonafides and mad companies more likely to invest more in employees as it…
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How We Used To Get Jobs: A Newspaper Classifieds Story https:// ironicsans.ghost.io/how-we-use d-to-get-jobs/ Comments: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9262211 # HackerNews # jobsearch # classifieds # nostalgia # employment # history # media
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I responded to an ad in the newspaper for a C programming job way back in mid-1980s. The team that posted the ad was not impressed with my resume, but they sent it on to a different team within the same company. That team hired me and I stayed at that company for 14 years.Unlike the author, I kept the ad in a box for 35 years, at which point I…
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You'd mail your resume in (it was a 'hack' back then to hand-deliver it), then get a call in a couple days or weeks. Then someone who was home during the day (if you already had a job) would answer the phone and take the message from the HR person (or they'd leave one on your answering machine), you'd then have an appointment to go in or return a…
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Mine is from Poland, early 90s, and even more analog. I worked at a Polish-Italian company. Our accountant used an ERP program, DOS, written in Clipper. There was no internet, so the vendor's consultant had to come to the office in person. The consultant was a young woman. She became my girlfriend and she pulled me into ERP. The girlfriend left…
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You still had to do a coding test -- but it was pointing to the bug in the C++ linked-list implementation on a single sheet of line printer paper.Because nobody was going to carry a Sun workstation down to the meeting room just for your interview.
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Classified ads for jobs were still a thing up until around Y2K. MonsterBoard (what it used to be called) was one of the first online job platforms and then Dice came along. I used to have good luck finding contract gigs through dice.
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The newspaper does still have job listings e.g. for Amazon, NVIDIA, DoorDash, Tesla, Chewy. I haven’t been having much luck applying to them though...
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I remember back when the Thrifty Nickle was how you could find all kinds of things up to and including your next vehicle.
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How tech company HR departments game the system for PERM jobs: A newspaper classifieds story