…the rest of that resume must be absolutely insane. Or he’s applying to be a businessman.
I’m out here with a Master’s degree and 3 years of work experience and I’m not even getting a first call. Shit’s tough out here.
Have you tried adding “Googling” as a skill?
Fuck, I’m ready to try anything at this point.
adding googling to my cv rn
Prompt engineering is a better looking term these days.
Might add Duckduckgoing or web searching
Careful, HR npcs will not know wtf that is
Just tell them it’s a strain of the VI virus.
When I took handwriting lessons I had to draw each number 100+ times in a row, so I guess I could say I’ve been googoling since 1987
Can I Google myself in your office?
With misinformation about and how shit Google search is lately, it’s definitely a skill worth learning.
“I used to be able to Google like you, but then they changed what Google was and now what I can do doesn’t work, and what you have to do seems weird and scary to me.”
And it’ll happen to you!
I used to google onions, because it was the style at the time
I used to be able to Google like you
…but then I got enshittification in the knee
For reals. I never bookmarked anything as I’d just regoogle what I was looking for but as of six months ago I can’t find shit. It’s like it never existed and all I get is spam websites that’s are skinned to looks genuine. I’m honestly going back to Askjeeves.com…
If it is any consolation, a good chunk of those bookmarks would lead to deadlinks or domains bought by someone else.
wayback machine and bookmark, name a more iconic duo…
Until you stumble upon “we don’t have that page archived”, then the pain is real
Yeah. It shows me first result article that copypasta from other place which is straight out wrong. Went to ddg and it start to show result that makes sense. It’s no wonder people look up reddit thread for info. It also doesn’t show too much oldschool forum, or at least it’s buried down 20page later. It’s unusable.
Try DuckDuckGo - I believe its selling point is that it is not as bad as Bing.:-)
It’s Bing without tracking. And the things like quotation marks still work. However, baseline search using it has still gone to shit.
Did it used to be better? I rarely if ever used it before Google’s enshittification, but now I’m just happy to find
streaming serviceswhatever I need.No, I’ve been using it for about 4 years or more, I think, and the search is stably kind of okay. Some time ago Google used to work when ddg failed, but…
It did, but Bing hiked their prices so it got shitty.
Oh, “it” meaning Bing then, not DDG. Although I thought Bing had always been free… shows what I “know”!:-P
DDG uses Bing on the backend, and they have to pay for each query, so Bing affects DDG
“I’ve got 10 years of googling experience”.
“Sorry, we only accept candidates with 12 years of googling experience”.
I have like 18 years experience googling boobies.
Boobling
Not only is “Googling” one of my most important job skills, now that I’m doing professional services, my entire job basically consist of “Learn product ${FOO} faster than the customer’s employees can.” Which of course primarily consists of knowing what to search for, how to find it, and how to interpret and use what I find.
So you’re that contractor that always shits out code that looks like the guy who wrote it was just learning the language?
Yeah pretty much. I mean I do the best I can (and I do have resources to look to for help).
Did it work tho
Works as expected.
I make myself stand out by phrasing it as “my google-fu is strong.”
If you apply for Microsoft, you gotta say bing-fu.
Lucky guy. Tolerance for calling a spade a spade is a big green flag.
I moved a guy forward in an interview process once who had literally zero corporate experience at all. It was for a senior website engineer position, and the guy had somehow never had a job before in his life at like 45 years old. He played in a band for a while, and was a stay at home dad after that. I moved him forward because he was a really interesting guy, he seemed passionate about creating things, and his technical aptitude was passable and could be improved. He didn’t make it past the other stages of the interview process, but I was definitely ready to give him a chance.
That sounds like good traits for a junior or internship role.
I have so many weird things on my resume just because that’s what job descriptions ask for. Like 10 job descriptions I was applying to ask for number key skills, which doesn’t seem like a skill to me but if they want it on there I got to have it on my resume or I won’t get an interview
I leave space in my resume template, and every job I run through chatgpt for a list of skills. Add them in, spin up a cover letter same process and send.
Ask them if they know what udm=14 means.
Oh my fucking god. Thank you!
A few years ago… Okay over a decade ago 🤕 Google offered a free course on “googling” with a certificate for completion. You’re damn straight I put that on my resume. Of course they’ve disabled half the tricks they taught us but now.
I put “Simple Green” on my resume skills section. Cleaning isn’t a huge part of the job, but I knew they used that specific brand across the industry.
The interviewer mentioned it with a laugh. I got the job.
Holy shit, this guy only Google searches with {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s
Holy hell!
New job skill just dropped
To be fair you could call this “search optimisation” and the people on Linkedin would eat this up
I might actually put this under my skills. I’m fairly good at googlefu.
Or prompt engineering.