Riverofjobs.com: A new Job Search Site
© Mark McWiggins 2024 425–369–8286
I have been a contract programmer for 14+ years. In that time I may have learned more about searching for jobs than anyone else in America (or elsewhere!)
Here are the tips I can give job seekers looking for jobs anywhere in America:
(1) update your Dice and Monster and CareerBuilder and Ziprecruiter websites with your latest resumes.
(2) customize your resume to the job, for example:
I am looking to compete against Workday and ICIMS, which both have highly illegal (in my mind; I am not a lawyer) job search sites. Usually they do this but I just submitted one for Workday and this one didn’t … maybe some of them got the message.
I will show an example in a moment:
I know that as my old boss says, “nothing happens until somebody sells something”, but when nontechnical managers sell to other nontechnical managers without a technical person involved it can be either crude (by somebody in the back end) who does a simple screen out of black / brown people … or more complex like a scoring algorithm that gives a few extra points to the people who are white. This latter would be very difficult to detect without the help of an insider or a court-ordered forensic analysis.
It’s not possible to tell which it is, but whatever the intent the effect is the same.
The system will be developed with LaTex, the system developed first as TeX, by the brilliant computer scientist Donald Knuth, then updated by equally brilliant computer scientist Leslie Lamport.
The system will give a web interface with several sections:
(1) a user-specified title (like Sr. Software Engineer for Blah Corporation)
(2) the users’ name and address and phone, which is the same for all resumes
(3) a table [your needs] [my qualifications] that will be customizable via a web interface
(4) a section of your experience, starting with the most recent job and working back 15 years … this is also invariant.
(5) a section that particularly illustrates the strengths you can bring to the current job.
(6) Your educational resume (also invariant/infrequently updated)
(7) optional: a cover letter. You can set up one of these you like and we will have a simple method to customize the name and expected salary
We will also automatically save your resume to our database and send it out to the companies you specify as “I’m especially interested in this one.”
You can add a custom declaration to each company’s outgoing mail, as in “my friends work there” or “I hear Costco never loses an employee” or “Walmart now has people-centric management so I would really like to work there.”
The resumes will be automatically sent out to recruiters for as long as you want them to go.
For companies, the benefits are obvious. You won’t run afoul of any authorities and the cost per listing is only $10 … much lower than any competing system.
Quantity discounts are also available for more than one listing.
Please call me 425–369–8286 to ask about this.
Yours,
Mark McWiggins
