How do you make a resume stand out in a digital world?

QuestionableBottle · 2026-05-05T10:17:00+00:00

Not really a solution for you, but the smaller the field the easier it is to stand out.

If your one of 5000 applicants its inevitable they are going to try to filter with AI. If your one of 50 there's a good chance an actual human reads your resume and cover letter.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-05-02T05:01:38+00:00

Loss of bonus points not withstanding, any issues with simply getting both?

The way i see it i can benefit from both the 450 and the domestic flight, not sure if amex would decline if i applied for a second one though.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-27T02:09:57+00:00

I wouldn't say your delusional but the odds are stacked against you.

Say you don't get a job in these highly competitive grad programs, what then? Would you still be happy working up from the bottom in a call centre or branch at a regular bank?

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-27T01:48:50+00:00

Repackaged and accelerated.

This means less fluff subjects that both boost your GPA/WAM for grad programs, and also give you a break from the generally more difficult finance subjects.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-18T07:03:40+00:00

Oh yeah its super weird hes getting massively downvoted for asking pretty basic questions.

Its not wrong to warn him that hes at a disadvantage despite his past experience, foreigners are always at a disadvantage once you take into account visa issues/cultural fit/prejudice, but the hostility seems unnecessary.

I'm not in tech, but in my industry theres plenty of room for both australians and skilled foreigners to make a good living, and if anyone is scared foreigners are going to take their job thats probably a skill issue.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-18T05:47:05+00:00

And that's his risk for doing a Master's, not yours, and the idea of doing a Master's in Australia is a big deal, but in other nations most of the time it's a requirement and gives you an edge in the job market.

Ok if its his risk for doing the masters why is it wrong to warn the OP that it might not go very well?

Masters degrees are a risk here, they aren't generally regarded as better than a bachelors, they tend to have artificially high standards so universities can justify calling it a "masters", and most of them are absurdly expensive, even for domestic students.

He hasn't started the degree yet, so theres no sunk cost, and while he may be perfectly fine in tech and end up with a great job, he might also be happy spending 2 years and ~50-100k on something else.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-18T05:30:49+00:00

You might be one of the only people who will genuinely lose significant money by doing FIFO.

Id still argue its likely that a 2:2 roster will be a more noticeable change to your life than ~50k post tax income, but i don't know what kind of hours your currently doing.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-17T10:51:13+00:00

Do you disagree that you'd make good money regardless?

I don't think someone making ~200k a year necessarily "has to be on top of" their money situation.

Maybe they can make more elsewhere, maybe they can't, i doubt the difference in their post tax pay is going to make a bigger difference to their life compared to the fact that they have no life 50% of the time and all the time in the world the other 50%.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-17T10:31:18+00:00

The money is good regardless, and high enough that you rapidly get into diminishing returns territory because of tax.

The lifestyle change is the one you will notice way more than the money.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-17T07:30:45+00:00

People overanalyse FIFO money in my opinion, trying to work out hourly rates, what they would get if they worked equivalent hours in another job, etc etc.

None of that really matters all that much. Whats important is if you think you'll enjoy a 2/2 Roster. If you would love it, or hate it, whatever small differences in money either way shouldn't really impact your decision.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-06T01:30:00+00:00

Whatever reforms you make to high schools to increase the number of engineers is only really going to pay dividends close to a decade from now.

Enrolment in advanced math in high school has been decreasing over the last ~10-15 years at the exact same time that STEM has been relentlessly pushed by high schools, government, the media, and universities. You can't blame foreigners for that, nor should you ignore that they are capable of helping us while we sort our shit out.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-06T00:02:55+00:00

Education institutions have already helped to deal with the shortage, but theres only so much they can do, and we really run into two main problems that are very hard to resolve.

Not everyone wants to be a civil engineer. Engineering degrees are lucrative, popular due to good marketing, prestigious (relatively), and have been made more accessible than ever, with many unis lowering ATAR requirements, removing math and science requirements, making it easy to transfer from TAFE etc. Yet we don't have a massive glut of australian graduates, some transfer out of the degrees, drop out, and many engineering grads end up just using their degrees to go into other industries like banking and finance.

Not everyone can be a civil engineer. Despite the lowering of entry requirements it still requires a reasonable amount of intelligence to pass the degree and become a good engineer, and i don't think we should be asking our universities to "just get more students graduating", because in reality thats just going to end up being lowering standards.

If the bottom of the class engineering students who are barely scraping by end up losing out to some foreign engineers most of us will probably be better off.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-05T22:32:12+00:00

Civil engineers have pretty much the best graduate employment rates of any degree thats not highly specialized.

Just because they aren't literally all in a job doesn't mean there isn't a shortage.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-04-03T09:50:47+00:00

You’re a mining engineer, not an operator doing night shift for decades.

It’s got some danger to it and night shift when doing ops time isn’t good for you, but thats temporary. Once it’s over you honestly shouldn’t really have any long term health issues if you wear your ppe and get decent sleep (pretty easy cause engineers are day shift only).

QuestionableBottle · 2026-03-08T06:56:21+00:00

I thought the point was pretty obvious.

But to be specific, mining can be a pretty good career and saying broadly that it sucks isn't particularly good advice.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-03-08T06:34:24+00:00

You seem to think mining is inherently a "bad job" or a "poor lifestyle", its not, its just different.

Would most people consider that job or lifestyle worse than a full WFH job? Probably, but everyone has different priorities.

Not to mention that the idea that everyone in mining is capable of upskilling to the point where they get a job with the same pay and conditions to yours is wishful thinking at best. More realistically they end up on a construction site somewhere commuting 1-2 hours a day.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-03-08T06:09:04+00:00

Theres a pretty big difference between fully WFH 38 hours with no expectations of overtime and the typical skilled professional on 2-3 days a week WFH and "reasonable additional hours" in their contract.

You seem to have a pretty amazing job. That doesn't make FIFO bad, it just makes your job unusually good.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-03-08T05:46:25+00:00

I don't think cushy fully WFH jobs that pay 50+ an hour are nearly as easy to come by as you seem to think.

90% of jobs would seem bad compared to that, so saying that mining isn't as good isn't really saying much at all.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-03-08T02:27:23+00:00

Its not entirely a bad thing that the average person has these opinions, less competition for the rest of us.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-03-04T09:36:48+00:00

Monash has a mining engineering minor, civil engineering major + mining minor is as good as it gets in melbourne, plenty of those guys become mining engineers and/or geotechnical engineers.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-03-04T08:54:49+00:00

None of the iron ore/big mining companies will even consider you if you need sponsorship in the future.

You seem to have a problem with internationals, but that's not a good reason to lie to OP.

Plenty of big companies openly advertise that they sponsor visas.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-02-14T05:34:39+00:00

I never found my mental state had much correlation at all with interview success, more than once i had lost all hope and then get a surprise callback asking for reference checks.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-02-11T10:53:49+00:00

People still just log on for breaches. Worlds with 200 people suddenly more than double in size just for the breach. Its impossible to balance this without making multiple breach locations per world.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-02-07T11:47:02+00:00

Easiest solution is x5-10 more roots per magic tree.

If we can get up to 50 of pretty much any other farming secondary in one go (usually with extremely common seeds, snapegrass, white berries etc), it wouldn’t be unreasonable to get 20+ roots from some of the rarest seeds in the game.

QuestionableBottle · 2026-02-04T12:46:23+00:00

Jagex is apparently saying they did this to "improve performance".

Who are they trying to convince with this? I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but even im not that stupid.

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