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UltravioletClearance110 karma

So, what does this app actually do? Because all you've said so far is vague things like ATS optimization which makes me think it only messes with the formatting.

There's a LOT of FUD about how ATS works spread by professional resume writing companies; they even run fake "ATS checkers" programmed to always flunk your content unless you pay them to redesign it. Nine times out of ten people who complain an ATS rejects them it's due to the content of the resume. Does your software address the process of actually writing the resume?

UltravioletClearance80 karma

I can't browse /r/personalfinance because of that either. You always see posts like "I PAID DOWN 40K IN STUDENT LOAN DEBT IN 4 MONTHS AND YOU CAN TO! AMA!" and it's always some techbro who got a $120k/yr gig right out of college and they simply practiced basic common sense frugality. I have yet to see anyone do that on a $35K/yr salary.

UltravioletClearance62 karma

I got out of print journalism in early 2020 after a 5-year stint across two weekly newspapers in suburban Massachusetts. My first job out of college was part time for $13/hr, and I had to commute an hour each way since I couldn't afford to move out on that salary. Luckily I was young enough to still be on my parents' health insurance plan.

My second job was full-time for just barely above minimum wage - started at $15/hr in 2016, and only got one raise to $16.50/hr a few months before I quit. I was forced to move into an apartment I couldn't afford because the owner wanted me to live within a reasonable driving distance of the coverage area so I could respond "on call" to breaking news events. At $32K/yr in an extremely high cost of living area, all of my money went into either rent or student loans. Had to rely on a food bank and handouts from my parents a few times when I had unexpected emergencies and didn't have enough money left at the end of the month for groceries.

The company was also extremely toxic. The owner was a very unpleasant person with no people skills. Multiple people quit on the spot after getting into shouting matches with the owner. I toughed it out because journalism was my passion, but in late 2019 I got completely burned out when I had a 60-hour work week that included covering some traumatic shit on top of a car repair that forced me to rely on a food bank again.

UltravioletClearance57 karma

That is pretty worrying to be honest. Do you know how to write a compelling resume? Sorry to be so blunt, but the resume you posted in OP is bad. Very bad.

Your resume is loaded with unnecessary adjectives, bizarre verb choices, unnecessary technical detail in some places and a complete lack of critical detail in other places, and spelling and grammar mistakes and inconsistencies. Sentences don't flow at all and I found myself having to reread bullet points several times to understand what you were trying to say. If I were to give your resume a thorough edit, I could easily cut the word count in half.

Design-wise, there is no semblance of balance. No white space at all. It's a giant blob of small text. It gave me a headache to look at.

If you were truly an expert in resumes and hiring, you would know a recruiter is going to spend less than 20 seconds skimming resumes. I spent over ten minutes reading your entire resume and didn't stumble on a single point that would draw me in more than the other 100 resumes in my stack.

So how the hell do you expect to develop a feature to automate writing a resume if it's a task you lack any skill in?

UltravioletClearance49 karma

I'd love to see a little justification on this nugget from the leaked scripts:

What can a customer do with 300 GB? Stream between 117 and 289 two-hour movies, depending on HD or SD.

117 two-hour movies translates into 234 hours of video streaming at "HD" (probably 720p, since your average 1080p movie at a viewable bitrate would require more data). For a family of four, that is an average of 58 hours of video content a month, or 29 movies.

However that doesn't include streaming television. The average American watches 132 hours of TV a month. If the family is made up of cord-cutters, they would hit the data cap after watching just 45% of their monthly television viewing alone, not even counting any other media streaming or Internet use.

How can Comcast say this isn't an anti-competitive move to cripple streaming TV services given these facts?