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  1. Did I hear correctly Bjork interviewed Traylor via Zoom?    You mean Bjork couldn’t take the aggy Private jet that brought Jimbo to Collie Station down to SA for a 30 min flight and meet Traylor in person ?  What an idiot.   

  2. Just a reminder..... If you are visiting your local HEB and it's not a "Plus" with the wide aisles.   Prepare to have a shit fit the next few days.   I thought going early this morning to get all of our Thanksgiving stuff would avoid all the personal shopper blue carts, the stockers, and some of the olds riding around in their electric carts.  

    NOPE....   

  3. 2 hours ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    In today's world with email, they won't get a 100 resumes, they'll get thousands. We're a small company who hasn't hired in years and I still get dozens sent to me a week.  Word of mouth or referred almost always will get you an interview though when we do hire.

    That's probably a good bet depending on the size of the firm.   What might be an interesting research topic for someone working on their MBA or behavioral type science is to have a firm advertise a position and require the applicant to submit both a hard copy via Priority Mail and  one vs the HR software the firm uses.    Let the human(s) sort out the paper ones and the HR software do it's process of elimination and see where they both stand at the end of the process.  

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  4. 1 hour ago, Pancho said:

    Ehh, that game is in Eugene. It's more likely a W than not. Since 1975, Oregon leads 35-12-1

    that rivaly is like ou/Oklahoma State

    True... But it seems just like Okie State/OuSuks that one of the teams sucked going into that game.   This year is kind of different

  5. 21 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    This has been literally every job I've held post college.  But this thread has been eye opening about how fucked it is for some (presumably) very talented people at about 50.  Scary stuff.  Hope all of yall that are floating land soon.  

    It’s just mind boggling thinking about the wealth of talent that is being sidelined because of  how hiring is conducted these days.   Firms small, medium,and large whether they be family owned or multinational are whining and bitching about attracting and retaining good people and they don’t lift a finger to fix it.
     

       Here’s a novel idea for HR firms across America and the world for that matter.   Turn off your Indeed, ADP, and Workday platforms and have resumes and applications emailed directly to an inbox so they bypass resume reading software .  Do this for month across most key positions.    If you get 100 resumes, randomly pick 40 and start making phones calls and setting up interviews.   Use Zoom if you have too,  but TALK to prospects.  You might actually find a diamond in the rough who might give you 15 years  and retire at your firm.   It’s not hard,  but I forgot. ……..Modern HR knows best…..
     

     

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  6. 3 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    I did this awhile back. It was the worst interviewing experience ive ever had (but I haven’t had all that many). Anyhow, if everything is headed that way, I’m going to try and find my last spot at about 45.  Finish the last decade or so somewhere I don’t have to move again.  What a beating that was. 

    Same here.  Looks like I’m older that you (51).  Fortunately this job has management opportunities down the road and that’s what the district manager liked about my experience as I have 25 years experience in management for our now former family business. I’ve only been in sales for four years and some change now and I’m going to really use this new opportunity to refine my sales skills as they have a fantastic training platform vs the job I just left.   Anyhow I’d really like to make the jump to  sales management in this firm if it affords me and the location is right in four or five years and ride that out until I reach retirement age.  
     

    Although this job search was short, it was exhausting and taxing on the mind.  My last job I was able to get through word of mouth and I didn’t even have to submit a resume, so I had no clue how the game was played today in corporate America.  And of course before that we owned our own business, so I didn’t need a resume, cover letters, etc .  When I did my first job search after college, it was career fairs, dropping by an actual location, or mailing a resumes.   Fortunately we started the  business a few months after I graduated , so that hunt was brief.   If I don’t ever have to job hunt again, I’d be satisfied.  

  7. 2 hours ago, Macanudo said:

    I've been using LinkedIn to determine a HR recruiter/hiring manager for the roles I'm applying too.   So far, it's yielded better results than anything else I've done:

    • Reached out to a hiring manager and she put me in touch with the recruiter.   This is for a position I think I would really like (Employee Engagement Partner) with a consumer goods company that has a very good reputation.   Had a phone screen last week but haven't heard anything yet (positive or negative).  Hope that one works out.
    • A recruiter I got in touch with replied back and we spoke last week as well.   I have an interview with the hiring manager tomorrow.  This is with a smaller boutique consulting firm in a role pretty close to what I have been doing the last 5-7 years.  
    • I applied for another job with a company in the same space I have been in.  The recruiter advised the role had already been filled but that she would forward my resume to a different recruiter for a job that she thought might fit me.  I have a call with her tomorrow too.   

    I'm still leaning hard on my work contacts and network.   That has been frustrating and has not yielded much.  

    As to the senior roles being available but paying at more junior rate....   That is definitely happening.   I have noticed over the last 15 months that a lot of roles that were offered at X salary previously are now at X - 10% or even 15%.   I keep pretty detailed records of what I apply for, job title, industry, comp, etc. and that's very evident.  Hell, I applied for the same job 10 months apart at a competitor and the salary range was around 15% less the 2nd time.   Other positions all of sudden have much more in the way of required skills/length of experience for less money than other similar roles a year ago.  

    This worked for me too.  I wish I would’ve done this earlier in the game instead of later.   I also reached out to a Territory Manager in another region here in Texas for a job I was applying for and she got me in touch with HR.  I was kind of hesitate to do this, but I figured I have a person or two every day or so trying to contact me through LinkedIn messaging to try sell me on something , why not use it myself?   If an HR person  don’t want to be contracted, they shouldn’t have a profile on LinkedIn.   

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  8. All you gals worried about Oregon staying where they are do know they still have to play Oregon State?   That’s not an auto W for the Ducks

  9. 4 hours ago, FtheBig12 said:

    Yeah I was aware of that conversation and was one of the many reasons I despise Mack.

    So if Hicks would’ve kept his mouth shut and we fired Mack, we very well could’ve had Saban?   Never mind. We would’ve shot our nuts off anyways and screwed it up.  

  10. 4 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    My wife had a patient the other day who is guest speaking at Oxford about AI and Machine Learning in the job hunting space.

     

    Her advice:

    AI is nowhere NEAR good enough to do what employers are asking it to do with resumes.  All of the fancy, well-formatted resumes that people (like me) paid to have done for them confuse the fuck out of AI and it rejects qualified applicants and suggests unqualified ones all the time.  

    Go back to basic as fuck resumes.  MS Word, Times New Roman, no bullet points even.  Just plain and simple.  

     

    AI is fucking over both applicants and employers right now.  Yesterday, I applied for a job that I was essentially overqualified for in a field very specific to my last decade of experience.  I was auto-rejected in less than 12 hours.  

    It's a complete fuck show.

     

    I guess all of these resume experts on Linkedin  and Fiverr are going to have to adjust?     I had freelancer redo my resume I found on Fiverr.   He did an excellent job and it wasn't anywhere near the $500 or more the so called Linkedin experts , but got too  fancy with some stuff.   Fortunately my Sister has a friend who used to be a hiring manager at Haliburton  back in the day (now with a placement firm)  before all this AI crap look over the resume and he suggested some edits on my resume and boom I got some bites.

  11. I am happy  to say I got an offer yesterday in Industrial tools (mainly oilfield)  sales and I accepted.    Ironically it was the only in person interview of maybe six I've done over the phone that got an offer and it might be actually sitting in hotel meeting room with the two managers had something to do with it instead of being screened by the first level HR folks.   I actually kept an  pre screening interview for this morning because I was curious about a few details I could only get by doing the screening  and it was one of these answer the questions via video response.    That was a waste of time and I would've said that even had I not taken the offer yesterday.  I felt like an idiot talking to myself.

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  12. 3 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

    If aggie was smart they would organize and demand for those two fucktards to be pushed out.

     

    Instead, they will continue letting them make important decisions and take their marching orders. Whoop!

    I always thought Dollar Bill Byrne was a tool until Bjork was hired.    My gosh what an arrogant prick.

  13. 5 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

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    I hadn't thought of Dykes.

    He knows how to get to the championship game. He got TCU to within one victory of a national championship! Think what he could do with our unending supply of money, facilitiesfacilitiesfacilities, and the Aggie Network! He beat tu twice when he was at Cal!

     

    Actually, I could see it.

    Dykes has some aggy traits for sure .....  I mean his Dad was coach at Sand aggy, so he can relate to the culture in Collie Station.   He had to recruit some of the same area we all do with his time at Louisiana Tech, SMU and TCU.     I still think last years TCU success was a series of perfect events that helped get them there.   I doubt it occurs again for a very long time.

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  14. 1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

    I'm trying to picture LK being led on one of those tours around the A&M campus and having all of the aggy turditions explained to him.

    Including showing up at the aggy airport with an official state greeting and the maroon carpet rolled out....

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