Notes on Ideed hiring process
I’m using Indeed to hire a part-time, remote bookkeeper for my accounting firm.
I don’t do a lot of recruiting, and I don’t have an HR team, it’s just me. Here are some observations about how different applicants appear to me:
- Resumes:
- I’ve been reviewing resumes on my iPad, and the resume data typed directly into Indeed’s form is by far the best/most readable option.
- PDF resumes are ok, but I cannot zoom on the resume (or I can, but the picture picture quality is low so it’s just blurry.)
- Word doc resumes are the worst, iPad or not. Indeed won’t show a “preview” so I have to download the file to view it.
- Suggestions:
- definitely don’t upload a .docx resume.
- consider transcribing your resume into Indeed’s form
- have someone review your Indeed-version of your resume in case you introduce new spelling or grammar errors in the process
Planning for OMSCS
OMSCS classes will start in about 2 months. I don’t know which class I’ll get yet, but odds are that I’ll be using Python or Java.
I’ve been able to review Python through Codecademy, but I think now I need to actually implement a project to get into the swing of coding and thinking again.
I may also want to review data structures. It’s so much lower effort to take a “course” than work on my own project because the next steps and progress aren’t so clear. I don’t want to end up taking more courses and not working on any projects.
Plus, once OMSCS starts, I likely won’t have time to work on a personal project outside of course projects, so now’s the time!
Notes on Codecademy’s “Game Development” Notes”
- Path Progress
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JavaScript Overview
- JavaScript Basics - Done Monday 5/23
- Conditionals - DoneTuesday 5/24
- Game Dev Project - Variables and Conditionals - Done Wednesday 5/25
- Functions - Done Saturday 5/28
- Scope - Done Sunday 5/29
- Game Dev Project - Functions and Scope - Done Sunday 5/29
- Arrays - Done Monday 5/30
- Loops - Done Monday 5/30
- Game Dev Project - Arrays and Loops - Done Monday 5/30
- Higher Order Functions & Iterators - Done Tuesday 5/31
- Game Dev Project - Iterators - Done Wednesday 6/1
- Objects - Done Thursday 6/2
- Game Dev Project - Objects - Done Saturday 6/4
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Learn Phaser Basics and Physics (delay in here due to lack of childcare for 2 weeks)
- Basics - Done Tuesday 6/7 (worked 6/6, 6/7)
- Physics - Done Friday 6/10
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Learn JavaScript Classes and Phaser Animations
- JavaScript Classes - Done Monday 6/14 (worked 6/12, 6/13, 6/14)
- Phaser Animations - Done Thursday 6/16 (worked 6/14, 6/15, 6/16)
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Learn Phaser Visual Effects and Capstone
- Phaser Visual Effects - worked 6/20
- Game Dev Project - Capstone
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JavaScript Overview
Notes on Codecademy’s How to Clean Data with Python
I took a small detour through this lesson, in the middle of the longer NLP lesson, to help solve a work problem.
Very useful for what I needed to work on.
Thoughts
NLP is weird because you are taking something that makes perfect sense to a human (the original text), then breaking it down into forms that are less and less legible to humans (but of course, more legible to a computer), all for the purpose of . . . finding meaning in it. A thing our brains can do.
Obviously that’s not the point, it’s just funny to be learning this text preprocessing to “get insight into the meaning of a text” as my current lesson of Codecademy says.
Spotify Recommendations
Currently listening to “Fictional Aisle” by Tall Boy Special.
This song is weird. I’m sitting here just thinking–how high were these guys when they wrote this song? But also, I realized I’ve brought this on myself. Somehow, whatever I’ve been listening to has led the algorithm to believe this is my kind of song.
It’s not too far off, but honestly, a little weird even for me. Me-in-college or high school probably would have loved it though.
I’m on my second time through this playlist today and actually, maybe it’s growing on me.
Good one Spotify.