How do people manage to actually get jobs through online applications (US citizen here)?
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There's places you can mail just the valuable boards and take scrap steel and copper to the metal recycler. Don't take tv's or smoke detectors. Sell good parts on ebay.
Define what is considered a valuable board.
Around my area, if I happened to show someone any device, even if it was originally worth $5000 in working condition, they wouldn't even give me $5 for it if I even fixed it.
They'll just turn around and brag about the latest shit they bought off of Amazon or something. Nobody gives a fuck around here anymore, electronics are like candy to these dumbfucks anymore.
Where the occasional money is at around here is if someone's vehicle breaks down and they need someone to replace their starter or alternator or brakes or something.
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Have you had anyone take a look at your resume? When was the last time you reviewed it? Is it at least somewhat visually appealing? How long is it?
Unfortunately, it may be a good idea to "customize" each submission by incorporating keywords from the actual listing into your resume.
I'm not the one to give advice on this, really, but I've heard of people having a lot of success with networking and reaching out directly to recruiters/managers/ect.
I used reddit for resume advice, and they critique it, r resume I believe. But make sure to be specific in your request otherwise you might get all over the place answers. But it will be hard if your resume is lacking experience.
I feel like networking is done mostly in person and tech mostly used LinkedIn
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Offer to buy or recycle #3.
#2 parts like control boards and power supplies are worth money on ebay.
#1 maybe crimestoppers money. See if you can get the serial number and check with the device manufacturer or the cops.
Wait, you mean when I actually did track down exactly where a stolen computer came from, and spent an hour or so with the cops, you mean I could have actually gotten paid?
Fuck, I had to wait on my boss to go on vacation before I even reported that shit (wasn't the boss that stole it, but he requested me to unlock it for the thief customer).
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I don’t know. I’ve been applying for jobs for seven years online, and I haven’t gotten a fucking thing.
Might be your resume, or even that you have too much experience. Some employers are looking for desperate low level experience in some cases
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I'm sure this must sound stupid for many, but I never get any responses, until like 3 days later when I check my spam folder and realize my scheduled interview appointment came from some random server that got deleted as spam mail.
How the hell do people get jobs online? I've only ever landed a job in person.
Alot of them use software to automatically screen people out, specific keywords.
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Define what is considered a valuable board.
Around my area, if I happened to show someone any device, even if it was originally worth $5000 in working condition, they wouldn't even give me $5 for it if I even fixed it.
They'll just turn around and brag about the latest shit they bought off of Amazon or something. Nobody gives a fuck around here anymore, electronics are like candy to these dumbfucks anymore.
Where the occasional money is at around here is if someone's vehicle breaks down and they need someone to replace their starter or alternator or brakes or something.
It's not a lot, but it's another revenue stream to consider.
https://www.scrapmonster.com/scrap-yard/price/electronics-scrap/4
You can also tell people you'll recycle it for them and actually just fix it yourself if they're not going fix it anyway.
I sell a lot of vintage electronics like vcr's, tape decks even a laser disc player for $300 one time. I have a whole package of random belts for the tape decks, which are easy to replace. I also do a lot of car parts as well as other random items. If you have a source for those hotel lock parts that are getting thrown away anyway then look uo how much they sell for. (Search ebay and filter by sold)
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Alot of them use software to automatically screen people out, specific keywords.
I do believe you misread my post in some way.
It's not that the company I applied to rejected me, quite the opposite actually. They sent me an email for a scheduled interview, but Google decided to automatically toss that email right in the spam folder.
I didn't figure that out until like 3 days after the appointment when I got a bug up my ass to actually check my spam email folder.
How the fuck did I have an opportunity to at least get an interview, yet Google basically decided to throw it in the
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Wait, you mean when I actually did track down exactly where a stolen computer came from, and spent an hour or so with the cops, you mean I could have actually gotten paid?
Fuck, I had to wait on my boss to go on vacation before I even reported that shit (wasn't the boss that stole it, but he requested me to unlock it for the thief customer).
You can always use it as goodwill for your business. Take a selfie with the cops and make a facebook post like "Another stolen phone recovered thanks to the local pd!" People eat that shit up and it gives you some legitimacy and clout, maybe even a piece in the newspaper about how you just like helping the community.
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It's not a lot, but it's another revenue stream to consider.
https://www.scrapmonster.com/scrap-yard/price/electronics-scrap/4
You can also tell people you'll recycle it for them and actually just fix it yourself if they're not going fix it anyway.
I sell a lot of vintage electronics like vcr's, tape decks even a laser disc player for $300 one time. I have a whole package of random belts for the tape decks, which are easy to replace. I also do a lot of car parts as well as other random items. If you have a source for those hotel lock parts that are getting thrown away anyway then look uo how much they sell for. (Search ebay and filter by sold)
I'd love to get back into fixing vintage electronics, but I don't really know anyone that's interested in buying anything more than 3 days old.
The only people I do know into vintage electronics are more or less anonymous friends that have a garage or storage shed full of the shit and not interested in any more.
Fuck, I found a totally working buisness class video projector that had an original MSRP of almost $16,000, yet I couldn't sell it to anyone for even a mere $50, they apparently have a policy around here to refuse video projectors, working or not.
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You can always use it as goodwill for your business. Take a selfie with the cops and make a facebook post like "Another stolen phone recovered thanks to the local pd!" People eat that shit up and it gives you some legitimacy and clout, maybe even a piece in the newspaper about how you just like helping the community.
I'd be shot in the head in less than 4 hours here.
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I'm sure this must sound stupid for many, but I never get any responses, until like 3 days later when I check my spam folder and realize my scheduled interview appointment came from some random server that got deleted as spam mail.
How the hell do people get jobs online? I've only ever landed a job in person.
I never get any responses, until like 3 days later when I check my spam folder and realize my scheduled interview appointment came from some random server that got deleted as spam mail.
It sucks, but this is kinda on you. Spam filters are pretty terrible at what they do. And with everyone and their dog adding "AI" to their security tools, it's only getting worse. There is a fuckton of spam being sent to email addresses all the time. And the spammers are doing their level best to make that spam look more and more like legitimate emails. So, the terrible spam filters and crappy AI are hard pressed to filter out all the crap and not catch legitimate emails. And this problem with false positives is one of the reasons a lot of spam still sneaks through, most of the filters tend to err towards false negatives over false positives. Still, false positives will happen. If you are expecting an important email, you're going to need to dive into the cesspit which is your spam folder regularly and make sure that email didn't end up there.
As for the issues around job hunting, ya that whole process can suck. Depending on your skillset, experience and job criteria, the pool can get pretty small pretty fast. And online job hunting means that companies are getting hundreds of resumes for postings. On top of that, companies have stopped training and don't do anything to build internal talent pipelines. So, if you are earlier in your career, you get stuck in a loop of not having experience, so no one will hire you to get experience. It just sucks and I don't have an answer for you, only to keep plugging away and understand it's a numbers game. Eventually the dice will come up for you, but that "eventually" can really, really suck.
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I'm sure this must sound stupid for many, but I never get any responses, until like 3 days later when I check my spam folder and realize my scheduled interview appointment came from some random server that got deleted as spam mail.
How the hell do people get jobs online? I've only ever landed a job in person.
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I'm sure this must sound stupid for many, but I never get any responses, until like 3 days later when I check my spam folder and realize my scheduled interview appointment came from some random server that got deleted as spam mail.
How the hell do people get jobs online? I've only ever landed a job in person.
People seem to not understand that it takes persistence. We're no longer in the days where you apply and people call back. Every and any job in the past 16 years since I've been working jobs, has been because I was persistent. You have to nag back. Call them throughout the week. E-mail when you can. Just keep up the momentum.
You can't just sit there and pretend you're the only one applying for the job. Thousands and thousands of people are all after jobs just as you are and it is a competition.
On that note, you've got to make sure you resume looks good and comprehensible. You gotta list off things as whatever skills you have. As a last resort, lie what you can lie about and make it believable. Just don't lie about education, though, anybody can see through that.
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People seem to not understand that it takes persistence. We're no longer in the days where you apply and people call back. Every and any job in the past 16 years since I've been working jobs, has been because I was persistent. You have to nag back. Call them throughout the week. E-mail when you can. Just keep up the momentum.
You can't just sit there and pretend you're the only one applying for the job. Thousands and thousands of people are all after jobs just as you are and it is a competition.
On that note, you've got to make sure you resume looks good and comprehensible. You gotta list off things as whatever skills you have. As a last resort, lie what you can lie about and make it believable. Just don't lie about education, though, anybody can see through that.
I wasted 4 months of my life trying exactly that to apply for Lowe's. I not only called twice a week, I also drove there and back, twice a week, 12 miles there and 12 back.
So, looking past my wasted time on the phone, 24 miles twice a week is 48 miles a week. For about 4 months.
48 miles * 16 weeks ≈ 768 miles of wasted travel, just to nag them and try as so many others have suggested to just be persistent.
It didn't get me any fucking where. Fuck, it cost me more to try nagging them than if I would have just sat on my ass.
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I wasted 4 months of my life trying exactly that to apply for Lowe's. I not only called twice a week, I also drove there and back, twice a week, 12 miles there and 12 back.
So, looking past my wasted time on the phone, 24 miles twice a week is 48 miles a week. For about 4 months.
48 miles * 16 weeks ≈ 768 miles of wasted travel, just to nag them and try as so many others have suggested to just be persistent.
It didn't get me any fucking where. Fuck, it cost me more to try nagging them than if I would have just sat on my ass.
Do you like, not know that there's other places to apply to? Maybe your resume wasn't attractive. Again, you are competing against people whose resumes and experience could outweigh yours. It isn't just you that could be applying.
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Do you like, not know that there's other places to apply to? Maybe your resume wasn't attractive. Again, you are competing against people whose resumes and experience could outweigh yours. It isn't just you that could be applying.
The last time I sent a resumé in, it was on indeed.
My resumé reflected my history of electronics repair.
AT&T contacted me. I don't know fuckall about cellular services, and my previous employers made fucking sure I never learned, by compartmentalizing.
I was the soldering technician that can solder wires about the thickness of a human hair. WTF does that have anything to do with cellular services?
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I'm sure this must sound stupid for many, but I never get any responses, until like 3 days later when I check my spam folder and realize my scheduled interview appointment came from some random server that got deleted as spam mail.
How the hell do people get jobs online? I've only ever landed a job in person.
You just keep applying. I got my current job by applying on the website.
Also yea, check your fucking spam folder or try to make the filter less aggressive. It's not good if you're missing interviews.
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My problem with that is that Google has a fucking mind all its own and will automatically file whatever the hell it feels like as spam, and I have no clue how to change those options, especially when I have no idea what server to expect an interview schedule email to even come from.
For what it's worth, I've never once had an interview request or professional email go to spam on Google mail. Not once in like 15 years.
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You just keep applying. I got my current job by applying on the website.
Also yea, check your fucking spam folder or try to make the filter less aggressive. It's not good if you're missing interviews.
How do you even change the spam filter options?
When I started my Google account, GMail was still in beta. Where the fuck are their options?
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For what it's worth, I've never once had an interview request or professional email go to spam on Google mail. Not once in like 15 years.
Thank you for the useless information. My Google account is over 20 years old, back when GMail was still in beta testing.
How the fuck do you change the spam filter options?
