And this event is an attempt to make showing up for a 48 hour 'work trial' a norm. This favors the younger, single population, and while you're working on whatever this event is, you are not putting more resumes out. There's the potential for abuse in getting free work out of applicants from other people mimicking this event.
Totally agree. Sounds like each applicant should be getting paid or something. Even so, dropping the rest of your life for two days stinks.
You have to balance the time it takes to tailor your resume to the company versus moving on and finding the next company to submit a resume to. At the extremes, some people don't tailor at all and throw their resume and cover letter at everyone in a suit. Others will do deep-dive research and make 27 drafts of a resume/cover to the point where they already know more about the company than the person who may hire them.
You know, there should be an app for that. Something where you can just put in everything, and then when sending out one resume to a particular company, it would help you customize it for them.
Maybe you could feed in the job ad, and the app uses some fancy NLP to then select which topics you should emphasize on your resume.
It should also keep track of what version you've sent out to whom, so that you can view it when talking to the potential employer on the phone.
Totally agree. Sounds like each applicant should be getting paid or something. Even so, dropping the rest of your life for two days stinks.
You have to balance the time it takes to tailor your resume to the company versus moving on and finding the next company to submit a resume to. At the extremes, some people don't tailor at all and throw their resume and cover letter at everyone in a suit. Others will do deep-dive research and make 27 drafts of a resume/cover to the point where they already know more about the company than the person who may hire them.
You know, there should be an app for that. Something where you can just put in everything, and then when sending out one resume to a particular company, it would help you customize it for them.
Maybe you could feed in the job ad, and the app uses some fancy NLP to then select which topics you should emphasize on your resume.
It should also keep track of what version you've sent out to whom, so that you can view it when talking to the potential employer on the phone.