What did you do to set yourself apart?
I'm mainly making this thread for the people on this board who think they can land a good job with just a degree and zero work experience. I want to know how many of you actually walked into an interview with no valuable accomplishments or experience, and ended up with the job you wanted.
I want to know how many of you actually walked into an interview with no valuable accomplishments or experience, and ended up with the job you wanted.
>No
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I started at my current company at $12/hr and now I make $130,000/yr 10 years later.
Either know someone already working at the company that can give you an in, or enjoy being a forever McWagie
>landed $18/h java dev internship during college due to getting a recommendation from a professor
>worked there for 4 years(2 after graduation), ended up being a software engineer team lead
>applied to senior-level jobs i was not really qualified for for an ENTIRE YEAR
>went to 50 interviews easily
>finally landed a job that emphasized my client-facing social skills, as well as technical knowledge
>$95K starting, 2 years out of college
>barely have to code any more
To anyone trying to make money without actually working during college, good luck
started at $48k/yr through a college hire program, make $200k/yr now
When I was 21, I generated a database of all the local businesses in my area, and sent them all a mass email with my resume attached. Most of them ignored it, but a few were impressed by my initiative and brought me in for interviews.
This. Nepotism is king.
And ultimately never hired you, currently working at Wendy's as executive chef
>$11.50/hr
No, I got a decent $15/hr internship which eventually led to a security clearance. I'm now making $97k, about to leave for another company and will be making $130k. I'm 29 now though.
Pretty sure that hiring a guy you know who happens to be a smart and decent worker doesn't really qualify as nepotism.
It is the literal definition.
Nowhere does it include smart or decent worker. Pretty sure it doesn't really qualify as nepotism.
>the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs.
It is literally not the literal definition. Stop misusing the word "literal", it's the worst millennial trend.
What’s the worst zoomer trend?
my job is shit
"smart or decent worker" is a bullshit justification that hiring managers use when they have previous relations with the person they're hiring. It is nepotism.
>bullshit justification
Sometimes. But I know for a fact that I've hired people I knew because they are smart and good at what they do. I don't hire them simply because I know them.
Unless you landed your job with absolutely no prior contact with anyone in said company, no one vouched for you, you don't know anyone working there, your job is the product of nepotism.
>actively practices nepotism.
Keep on rockin the wagie world.
Unless you hire actual retards, 99.9% of interviewees would fall under the category of "smart and good at what they do."
My dad got me the job
>99.9% of interviewees would fall under the category of "smart and good at what they do."
Wanna know how I know you've never been in a position to conduct interviews?
Most of the people who walk through the door do absolutely nothing to stand out, and are COMPLETELY average.
Dabbing or tidepods
Except all your bffs you have known previously. Lucky them, they're equally average but just happen to know the cuck who's conducting the interviews.
I did. Then I quit due to anxiety
Did you get dumped today or something, you seem angry
If it's that easy, go make some friends buddy. You'll have a new job by next week
>Smart is a bullshit justification
user. . .
You're literally defending nepotism. You are what is wrong with most of the workforce.
I have a job. I conduct interviews. When I have old classmates or coworkers from my previous company come in to interview, I recuse myself and have another team mate conduct the interview.
You keep on doing you tho, hire those "smart and decent" workers.
>get out of college with a 3.4 gpa in mech. eng
>0 work experience ever
>apply for ~20 places one day
>hear back from one place (some small IP firm) within hours
>go through their hiring process
>currently a paralegal (3 months in) and training to become a patent agent
Pay is shitty right now, but will grow when I actually get credentials.
They treat me well because the mother company isn’t in a slave country like the US.
>ITT, average to shit-tier workers who refuse to admit that the only reason they have a job is due to nepotism.
Well in 2 months I'll have an interview to a union job. If I don't get in, my associates would have been a waste of effort and I'll be completely fucked.
I tend to have bad luck so I expect to be a NEET forever. Fuck low pay cuck jobs. Under 15 an hr in LA and I won't do it.
Nepotism.
fuck, patent lawyers is a great job here in the UK. it's a proper niche, and the upside money wise is infinite, basically. dont fuck this up.
used my autism during the interview to solve a problem they'd been facing.
>t. 6 figures
Wasn’t a great first paying job, but I skipped college. Started my career in IT at 18 by dropping off resumes at every systems integrator/PC repair shop in town (except geek squad, lmao, I wasn’t that desperate). Finally got one to give me a shot, started at 24k/yr. As time went on, I got new and better jobs, and now make 6 figures. You have to go for quantity in the beginning and tell them you’re willing to take lower pay if they’ll take a chance on you. Work hard even if your job sucks, and move on when you’re ready to if a place won’t give you raises and growth opportunity.
i got hired by some startup that hired anybody. the turnover rate was disgustingly high because of this. i earned my stay by being actually competent but goddamn it is demoralizing watching my coworkers come and go. i cant wait to get the fuck out after i hit the one year mark.
Told them I've been accused of racism in my current role.
Literally. Told them the story out of spaghetti they laughed and loved it I got a call the next day.
> Graduated college almost 3 years ago.
> Bachelors in Business
> Current job pays close to minimum wage.
Microsoft, just designed my LinkedIn great enough with the right keywords. Remote.
Then I started using Keyword Alerts on LI and Indeed to get good jobs.
Basically, a good paying job is easy to get, just seem experienced.
Now I'm being paid twice as much as that one gig, and I left it in 2017, started in 2015.
Is it worth it? Eh, IT is IT.
Also, location matters - if you're desperate just think:
1. How much money do I want?
2. What's "really" tying me down to this area?
3. If someone offered 100K to move across the country or world, would I do it?
4. Copy/paste from successful LinkedIn Profile.
5. Make a fake LI for what you want to do- do mock interviews w/ recruiters, play the game.
Lying is a skill. It's best to lie about things that can't be verified. University can be verified, prior work experience, not so much (there's no central database, and HR won't really review records)
Even if you worked for Mcdonalds, just say you were, Legal, HR, IT, whatever, even if you served tendies.
Or even better, say you're a contractor for a big firm, they churn through and people understand you're looking out for yourself and probably help you get your gig.
It feels like a literal blessing for an otherwise would-be NEET.
Very happy with my experience so far and the path open to me in the future.
Working through school is what I can attribute most of it to. The earlier the better. I'd imagine it helps if the jobs are relevant to the career, but mine werent
>barely have to code any more
This is what amazes me about higher-level programming gigs. It's like 90% management/code review and maybe 10% actual implementation yet it pays sooooo much more than code monkey shit.
Pic not related I don't wakaru.
>BSBA finance
>intern at small bank
>intern at big bank in S&T
>use connections to leverage FTO
>start at 115k
>3 years later, 2nd yr associate, ~220k
The universe wanted some entertainment so it created a real life simulation. Every thought you think is a paid advertisment by some entity that is in a higher dimension. To think right pays a lot in a timeless currency. It's not that bad, surely you realized that the character you're playing isn't real. Whatever. I got my highest paying job by thinking the right thoughts at the right time. At least I've got real currency that I'll be able to transfer to make a better character in this or a different simulation.
This thread is as senseless as my rambling. Fiat has no intrinsic value. Your jobs won't bring you happiness or security. All that matters is your relationship with yourself, and others.
All you have to do is to cultivate a skill that has value and lie about how great you are, and say things that other people want to hear.
>Biochem degree
>Working in a lab making 15 bucks an hour for two years
>Want to finally get a real job that doesn't pay dogshit
>There is literally nothing around me and everything else pays nothing
>Best thing I can get right now is fucking contract work that pays 21/hr with almost an hour commute
HELP
Charge people for DMT+MAOI ceremonies. Call it healing rituals. Hire a native shaman. You'll make a shit ton.
Sheeeeiiit
fuck me in the ass I'm about to start my bachelor of business, is it a waste of time? It comes with a year of work experience.
>office fags biting at each others heels while BASED tradies earn double their wage and actually enjoy their jobs
What is the nature of your work? You said client facing so not a manager right? Sales engineer or something similar?
I taught myself web dev and got a job in 6 months. No degree or connections. I work from home and make good money, travel when I want.
'Real' as in full time with benny package: it was a part-time jobber i took start out of college, hung around for a while as i had a side business and no motivation to find real job. Got offered the full time position.
>high paying
Never had.
cs undergrad. go to career fair senior year, get a job at a big 5 tech company with no experience or internship. just did okay at a really good school.
>33 year old NEET with years of prior experience and technical skills
Not even Linkedin or Ziprecruiter helps. And all the jobs on Craigslist pay too little for me to move out. Gainful employment has stopped being a goal and started becoming a ludicrous fantasy. I envy all you fuckers.
>All you have to do is to cultivate a skill that has value and lie about how great you are, and say things that other people want to hear.
You still have to deliver results.
>You still have to deliver results.
You quite literally don't, that's your underling's job.
I literally landed a 20/hr job at a large healthcare/insurance firm on their data analytics team today. AMA
First job out of college btw (with no internship experience whatsoever). Figured that mattered as well
and my GPA was a 2.0. Kek
I got my high paying job through nepotism. Lots of people do, that’s just the way our world works
MOVE
What degree?
>he thought a BS degree would make him a scientist
Go get your associates in nursing. Two years and 10-15K and you will come out making $50-60K working three 12hr shifts a week. Alternatively, if you are smrt and have good grades, you could consider physician assistant school. Two years and you come out making $100K. School is more expensive and intense than the associates in nursing though.
>what are your interests user?
I uncorically shilled the idea of smart contracts without using the buzzword of blockchain or bitcoin. Made me look 100x smarter.
MIS
How do I force myself to lie if I'm too honest or I'm a bad liar. I feel like my inner morals keep me from getting better jobs, but I really can't help myself. I feel awful when I lie.
>been consulting since college
>talk with government agencies and c suite execs of $100m+ companies weekly
>a few times a month hedge funds ask me for advice
>all of these people assume I'm very rich but I'm still living at home poor as fuck
>no idea how to talk myself into a real job with these people because if I tried that'd probably appear desperate
This sounds ridiculous as I'm reading it but it's 100% true. Don't do the startup meme, just build real skills, do internships, and move up the ladder.
Not all of us are söiboy trannies
He's right you faggot
Logged in just to say this
Literally already officially means figuratively as well.
>job you wanted
I never understood this, do people actually want a job? I thought it was more of a necessity?
>be me
>quit job to do coding dojo
>graduate with the highest possible certificate
>make my own website
>buy my own domain for said website
>4 months of he'll and anxiety and sneaking alcohol into my dad's house
>CIO of current company gives my phone interview
>asks very specific questions about the layout of a Java backend
>answer every question perfectly because I actually know my shit
>come to the in-person interview in $800 Boss suit
That's how it's done. No degree, no prior experience, $32/hr starting
>thinks working a job is about delivering results
>based protestant work effort
KEK the best paying jobs are about making other people work and fooling them with lies like the ones you believe. That's why top positions are given to people who lie in their interview- it's the primary job requirement.
So you'd spend a shit ton of money and waste years in university to work a pathetic number of hours and live a life where all you do is work, to avoid being called a soiboy tranny online?
doing what?
first EE job with average pay:
in the job description it said "knowledge of [govt cert. test procedures document] preferred", spent a few hours learning it on youtube, and was able to regurgitate the video on a board during the interview. I was asked later how i knew about it since other applicants didnt.
quit that job
> Retail, part time, took it
> Retail, part time, skipped interview
> School system, part time, skipped interview
> Pic related. Retail shoe store with sales goals...in a mall, manager in training, skipped interview (step up job wise for later on)
> Call center, took it, didn't know it was a call center..., quit a few months later
(step up job wise if i was good at it and got promoted out of the call center)
> Corporate place, full of two faced feminist women, didn't get the job (step up job wise but I'd probably hate working there quickly)
> Maybe a few more low level jobs where I didn't get the job idk
That sums up my first year after college looking for jobs that actually contacted me. Only 1 required a degree iirc and it was the shoe store.
The degree is useful to bypass the software that would otherwise reject you but you need experience that they somehow expect you to already have...catch 22