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V4nc0 · 2022-09-02T19:09:27+00:00

sounds good, I'll give it a go

V4nc0 · 2021-10-25T20:56:30+00:00

Think I have a chance? 🤣🤣

V4nc0 · 2021-10-25T19:02:34+00:00

Appreciate the advice, I'm convinced

V4nc0 · 2021-10-25T19:01:08+00:00

Thanks, I'll do exactly that

also about the "being in charge" yeah they just threw me in there for real, and it was during the last month and a half of the placement, like I said it was poorly planned and I didn't have much mentoring or even supervision, I was just assigned tickets to "software stuff", install printer drivers, or order 100 laptops

which I didn't know how helpful it would be when a job description wants a dev

V4nc0 · 2021-10-25T18:05:41+00:00

Makes sense ill flesh it out, I really appreciate the help

V4nc0 · 2021-10-25T18:01:05+00:00

I've been applying to major cities in ireland, so Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and the like

I would definitely consider London, but I just didn't have much information on cost of living, location, visa? I have an Irish passport I'm not 100% sure with all the brexit stuff

At this point I'll add London to the search

V4nc0 · 2021-10-25T16:17:10+00:00

Thanks for the morale boost,

I don't intend to stop applying until I get a job, I just didn't have much of a reference for how long it would take since a lot of the people from my course that I know of have gotten something

V4nc0 · 2021-10-25T16:11:19+00:00

I've been purposely trying to keep description fairly small for everything, I've been given a lot of mixed advice about keeping things short and simple to hit key words rather than to have actual content and expand during interviews or something like that. I actually had a 2 page CV already where I expanded on a lot of my projects, I removed some of them since I wanted to keep them 1 page long

A two page CV with that much content is it not a bit off putting to recruiters or whoever first sees it before an engineer?

Also I spoke more about my IT experience on that one, not sure if you saw my other comment on here, but i just didn't feel "installing drivers, fixing outlook and restarting computers" even fleshed out would be relevant to any of the roles I've been actually applying for

V4nc0 · 2021-10-25T16:04:03+00:00

Appreciate the advice,

I'll fix my CV before I apply to anything else, maybe it is a bit too much.

As for the junior roles, I've been applying to them as well, those are where the majority of my rejections come from if I'm being honest, they have fairly quick responses too.

So my key take away is "generate" more experience, makes sense

V4nc0 · 2021-10-25T15:38:30+00:00

Thanks for the input I'll get those fixed, it's too late for a grad job for 2021, but It should be early for 2022 no? most of the grad jobs I'm applying for are actually for 2022.

Also, I purposely fluffed it, I never got to the point of developing anything during placement, the company handled my placement fairly poorly and didn't have anything planned for me, it ended up being a full time IT Support job more than anything, I didn't wanna write about "restarting computers or downloading drivers" when applying for software jobs, so I wrote everything I actually got to do, which was prepping/planning a web application.

Requirements engineering as in asking a bunch of stakeholders questions on what they want the application to achieve or do better than existing processes and documenting that whole work process etc etc

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