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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2015
- I was just watching your answer video for "How Do You Get Enough Experience to Apply for Programming Jobs". You talked about how people should apply for every job thay find interesting even you would not have enough experience or qualifications. So my question is do you have some tips about how to write job application without sounding like you lack of experience and/or qualifications mentioned in job advertisement?
-Aleski N.
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You just described my mcdonalds job about leadership skills lol.
“There is zero shame for been poor and there is zero shame for not getting paid.
There is a mountain of shame for not working”
-- Eli E.
+abeg82 Greece is crying.
hey grocery store I want food I cant pay you in money but I have experience. hey land lord sorry I cant pay any of my rent but I have experience. see the problem
@@ElectricityTaster explain?
I have to say, Eli is the firs person ever that I never wanted to disagree with. Every thing he says is pretty much wise and experienced talk.
A lot of good advice, but a lot of people work shitty jobs 40-50+ hrs just to pay for food and rent. How are those people suppose to work for free as well? Hopefully most people don't have this problem I just happen to live in one of the most impoverished cities in the US where rent is high and jobs pay low if you have no experience. The result of this has been that people born here always stay poor and good jobs hire people from outside the city. Hopefully this trend can be broken.
The problem with getting in IT, relates to when you're looking for your first job. They want experience, but you can't have experience if nobody hires you to begin with.
You can get experience by making your own stuff as you progress. Pick your realm and build something, it'll get you experience if you stick to it. If that don't work as planned, start your own place, all you need to do is advertise at first, it is the first key, performance the 2nd.
Find an anchor to develop as your "Sun" you orbit. Some people it was web design, others database, some SEO, some GIS, some CAD, some 3D, some this some that, and make that an outroad to extend into the organic driven web world. (But most assuredly invest in your PPC ads)
For example every now and then we do a youtube hunt, and we record the content we create and eventually it may end up in the blog, and if ti does at minimum 100 people a year by random search will read something, and some will then get the idea to call us on a variety of programming needs, simply of a little bs in an article with "unusual suspects" merely thrown in for some search hooks.
If you are going to do your own thing find subject matter platforms to bounce your services off of. Then BELIEVE in yourself and your BRAIN, because you already have what you need, all brains can learn and perform when doubt is NOT present and constantly filtered out for positive thinking. If YOU believe in you, so will others.
@@markskyscraper8092 very inspiring... I was a little confused and re-read that twice.
@@GudInformation And don't work for free. We are heading into pre-AI where automation is the reality now. We have 10 years and a few to charge what it is worth. And the AI at that time is not real AI, but advanced computing, imo. But automation is the precursor, be honest, most industries are behind. Some industries, like architecture and engineering are 20 years behind, for example. Find a backward industry and charge the proper fee. Their problem is, also, they need to make programmers, automation specialty, a partner, or get re-aligned in the next mega-downturn, which recovers. (No such thing as doomsday, iow)
But these Luddites need to wake up, charge them for the Red Pill, if that is your focus. IT maybe makes 200K a year, specialized automation, imo, can make more. But you have to wake them up fast, before they are devoured running 1990 denial thinking. wth
Your videos are really useful. It's really great to have someone put all this into perspective and highlight what's important.
Love your directness & just being real
Getting experience = be homeless.
There is shame in living in your car. And I can't pay my rent with experience.
a good way to get experience is to get an intern job at a place that is related to what you eventually want to do for a job and you can get paid for it also
Your information has been very useful Im new starting in IT
I was taught just to list the responsibilities of each job and focus on skills that are relevant to the job you are applying for.
but but but ... i work at a 7/11 ;_;
Inspiring video. Thanks.
I was told to have multiple resumes for different things. Like I have done a lot of multimedia and audio work, but I'm not going to go into detail about that on a resume for an IT job. I may mention it, but not really put it on there in detail.
You crack me up! Good info
Great video! Having relevant content is one of the main reasons students and professionals have a hard time getting a job. I have seen hundreds of resumes with large amounts of content on irrelevant jobs and they usually get tossed aside.
person... or girl. LOL wut
+Weerzer he did say guy before person but yeah it's funny.
Hey Eli! I love your videos! Could you maybe make a video on some books you would recommend reading. I see your book collection in the background, and I was curious of what their titles are. Thank you.
Got any tips on improving resumes that have a few unemployment gaps? I hate looking like a job hopper. I work on my own projects but a lot of companies still worry when they see someone who was unemployed for a while.
Love your videos😁
That gas station experience just killed me with laughter the way Eli talked about it lol!!!
ivander reynoso
Yeah but he was totally wrong in my opinion. I am not saying gas station experience makes you qualified for higher jobs but it really teaches otherwise smart but lazy people how tough and boring working can be. I would prefer hiring a skilled and intelligent person that got his hand dirty at a job like that before.
Seien chin that wasn't his point though. He's saying that don't bother on being incredibly elaborate on how significant your gas station cashier job is. I'm sure recruiters respect that you are a hard working cashier, that doesn't mean you need to blow a ton of smoke and mirrors about the job experience.
Watched this video --> got an internship a month later --> intern for 3 months (with pay) --> get a job there
its all about grit
I slightly disagree with the idea that a job at 7-eleven is worthless or not valuable. It may be true that a majority of those skills are easy to come by skills and are also considered low value skills as a majority of people can gain them rather easily, but there are other perspectives on how this job can have value. When you go to work and need coffee, cigarettes, and gas, where would you go? to a gas station or a 7-eleven. True you could pay at the pump, but what about those cigs, or paying for that coffee. What about the guy who usually brews that coffee in the morning or stocks those cigs on the shelf when they come in? True that some technology could replace some of this, but has it? not yet so that makes that job valuable in a sense, maybe not to you specifically, maybe you don't smoke cigs or drink coffee. definitely gas up every now and then, but a lot of that is self service now anyway. This doesn't mean that others don't drink coffee or smoke as bad of a habit as it is. These jobs can also help build what I like to call mental fortitude with dealing with idiotic situations and stressful situations. Imagine working the register yourself and you have 5+ people in line and some idiot steals something off the shelf and another idiot spills gas in the parking lot. and yes I have dealt with this exact situation. Another situation are the idiots that come in or press the intercom button because their card isn't working at the pump or its asking for a pin for a debit card when they use credit, most of these guys have just pressed the wrong button or didn't follow the instructions on the screen. I think dealing with people working at a 7-eleven or any other gas station is valuable in the fact that it can help you deal with plenty of stressful situations early which can help when you have a deadline to meet on a development project and you're way behind schedule and can also help you develop soft skills so that you can keep a cool, calm, level head and focus on the problem and be able to still determine the most efficient method of solving that problem.
8:07 - Thanks sir!
Awesome vid
Every time i've applied for a job i've been honest but I keep getting rejected and been looking for three years how can i be more honest
+Mary Dean Enclose a picture of yourself in lingerie on the application, 60% of the time it works all the time. I am also currently hiring ;)
+Mary Dean Well can you actually write code?
Don't worry guys I found a job through Facebook just hoping I don't get let off
People are complaining about 40 hours a week job. In my country this is heaven. We work min of 60 hours a week lol.
seems dumb to me
What country is that?
I worked my ass off for minimum wage, hate that it's looked down upon so hard.
living in a country majorly hireing on the servicesector where you either aren't sceduled enough time or can't make a living with 60 hours a week your 40 hours sound plausibly liberal, "science" suggests 35 hours to be the optimum amount of concentrated work less makes sick more grinds you most probably down. depending on a healthy work ethic.( and yes 40 is basically world standart.
Just curious while I have nothing to worry about in the lying regard. Is there some way to proof just to make sure that things look as accurate as possible? Maybe not an issue, but maybe wording to some could seem like something don't fit or may not be accurate.
jtech0 Hey, If you want to explain a "level" or experience on your skills you can use a "tag" like Tech Level on your resume and set it to like "basic" "medium" or "high". It can be smart to put it lower than you acctually have, So if you think its "med" set it as "basic". It gives the "boss" if nothing else an idea. What your experience is. Some bosses wont even read it. But you atleast give them an idea if there looking for it.
That's interesting, please can you share your resume?
You use Turdle Wax!
So you know how i want to put good technical stuff on my resume right? Apart from what Uni or college i went to that i can put on it which is good, i should also put extra activities aswell such as maybe i would make a software by myself with C# showing i have an understanding of C# and stuff. However thats all i can put because the rest of it would have to be me going out for internships and nonprofit organisations like you said but where am i supposed to pay my bills from for the time being? my parents nah they are supposedly taking me for an adult so they expect me to pay my own bills and my dad isnt exactly lionel messi and having a billion pounds in his pocket. anyway am i supposed to get a loan from a bank while im doing internships and such for my resumes. Arent banks dangerous?
+Eirik Birkeland
Yes, im 14 but im trying to learn C#. I just recently started to get myself a headstart from all my other peers in school. The problem is I can be the best and most intelligent student in the school but i am worthless garbage when it comes to social skills. And are you sure i should be working part time while studying? Isnt that a bad decision that can destroy grades at school? Anyway thanks for the comment.
+Sysuke Kry Its been 3 weeks but as someone whose social skills sucked a lot when he was 14 I'd recommend you take speaking classes(public speaking, drama, debate, etc) if your school offers them they helped me a lot with that, so did getting a job as a lowly fast food worker to pay for my schooling being forced to interact with customers like that helps a lot.
Working and doing school at the same time is very much a case by case thing, for myself I can do it no problem it just requires good time management skills and accepting you will have less time to do the things you want because you will be working/ studying instead. One of my coworkers manages 2 part time and a full time job and schooling and does fine, another has trouble with just one part time and going to school part time but the reason for this is they procrastinate and don't put there full effort into classes. Thus it really does all come down to how hard you're willing to work and how much of your time you're willing to sacrifice to do well.
I really love your head
Is like you know Oga Lai lai in Nigeria 0:57 0:58
Wish I'd found this a year ago. >_
if you have a good interpersonal skills and outgoing experience, is that a good qualification for IT job
+Asi “අසී” Techies generally don't like dealing with the public. If you can do it for them then techies will love you.
+agun17 well i am good at it. i love to design. i love to code. what is the best job that you recommend? i prefer UI?UX for the most of the times. but in sri lanka its really hard to find a passionate job for that title. Any suggestions ?
Asi
If you have no family ties, I'd go to another country. If this is not possible, then web or mobile app development could be your thing. I'd recommend freelance work because you have no problem dealing with clients over the phone, etc.
40 hours/ week is too much.
Standard work week should be around 30hrs/week, imo. Maybe even less.
***** I don't get your question...
***** You can work more than 30hrs/week if you want.
***** Yes, but the standard should be 30hrs/week
***** More time for people to live their short lives and discover the world.
Archdevilneverfails Baggins just dont work then lol that extra 10 hours. if that bothersome for you. then just dont work lol
title typo
This is a no-brainer. Be honest, be ambitious.
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I can't just stop repeating lai lai lai lai ................ 0:57
Eli Should I Put On My Resume that I Was a Security Guard
hahahahaah bring the gun and get the job.
Depends on how much job experience you have. If you've worked a wide variety of jobs, pick the ones that are most relevant to the job you're applying to. Recruiters are looking for transferable skills. If you don't have a very wide variety, put in everything you can.
loonaticaaron Hey, why dont you give me +1, everybody else did. haha
yes
lie lie lie ...man u cracked me u never fail to make me laugh
Try ResumeRobin ... it distributes your resume **
jajajajja 7eleven shit made me laugh asf xD
If you want to polish a turd, don't become a turd. Make applications and you won't be inexperienced. Have a portfolio!
Eli is looking a little ruff in this vid...
It's not really feasible for a college student to work 40 hours a week, Eli... Especially if they're taking 20 credits in a semester, and operating as an officer in multiple student organizations.
+Dr. Zoidberg That's experience... I take 12 credits a semester, work full time, participate in orgs and volunteer. School will go slower for me. You take 40 and participate a lot, that is experience too. Not doing anything with your spare time and glorifying a gas station job makes you look like poo, that is all he was saying.
I work 40 hours a week, and go school 30+ hours a week to earn my Bachelor's in Web/Software Development. I'm a single dad (takes even MORE time still), and I'm in a rock band. Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day, it's how we choose to spend them that sets us apart.
I'm a college student and it's completely feasible for me to work full-time. Who else will pay my bills when I'm going to school?
+Jeremy Bernsdorff
Wow you must be really smart, pat yourself on the back kid.
@@JupiterFerrari the thing is why people like you can glorify yourself for doing "taking responsibility" and don't questioned on your judgement. Whereas others who poured hours and hours on other "hobbies" are not given the same credit of being honourable.
I really feel the hatred toward lying applicants as I recently hired a dumbass who didn't finish his job and actually thought I would be okay with him not working after I paid him. Some people should seriously be banned from society, its not fair that we have to pay for their bullshit. Oh, and he didn't even follow any of my directions either.
I live off medicaid and food stamps. Kappa.
+Neon2110 Glad I could help.
i like this guy
40 hours a week? I'd rather live on rice and beans.
You have to do more than avoid the appearance of "inexperience." You are competing with "experienced" people under the eyes of P.T. Barnum, who thinks you are ALL suckers who were just born a minute ago! You have to OUT-Barnum the Barnums! You are more mysterious than the fish boy! You are more amazing than dog woman! You have the power of "Being a killing" in saved assets paid to costly Security People!! Youi are the FREEBIE they've been waiting for!! You ask nothing and provide Fortune Five Hundred Status with the HOPE you provide just from the light of your PERSONALITY!! You are in the Center Ring, and the sucker just born is about to HIRE YOU and thinks you're the SUCKER, HACKER!!
i like the video, but i cringed when you called all unemployed people "pathetic" - i mean there are countless valid reasons for someone to *not* be working.
he's talking about public perception i think, not really what he's saying.
he's talking not talking about people who are unemployed, hes referring to people who don't want to work.
He definitely implied that people who are unemployed would be people who don't want to work. He also said that you should work for free to gain experience. Don't Do That.
I'm at the end of my first year of computer science studies and already earn 50€/h for freelance tasks such as creating websites, though there aren't many available.
If you want to gain experience without working(yeah also an option). Gain the knowledge by yourself and add it to your portfolio. Free/paid online courses or just plain tinkering around.
My advice is as you embark on your crazy programming MISSION, get ready to put in MORE time than the average job, (unless they were passionate about the convergence of technology in what they do).
1. You have to love it to really excel, plain and simple; and this is a study that I feel many can fall in love with.
2. Thus extra time is just what you do, you flush MSNBC and other time wasting bull and you PROGRAM! And...
3. Find something YOU want to make, some niche, some massive constant constraint at your "other job", so thing you PERSONALLY want to CREATE!
4. Then BUILD. Have you eevr worked with a web tarded company that redoes their web every 2 years? Like for the last 15 years? And they do not want to pay the piper, they don't believe in technology, they think this is still 1994 on the web when miracles happened for free, just time spent and good information?
Yes you may know about these dorks, their webs 15 years later are no more voluminous, no better, no more creative than they were in 2000. They NEVER >>>BUILT
Inexperieinced?
This guy might know computers, but he seems clueless on life.
$10 x 40 hours = $400
$20 x 20 hours = $400
$40 x 10 hours = $400