Shit maybe I should get a job as HR sounds easy as hell

sighs...puts on the fox suit

Knowing a guy is a goated strat tbh, hardest part is being competent enough that someone you know would vouch for you

My last interview was in 2014, for a transfer within a big company from one metro area office to another. I had been on-site in my present office many times (still, mostly working from home), so I took the "dress like you would dress during a normal workday" advice - brand new sharp pair of dark blue jeans (solid - no holes or wear), long sleeve dress shirt, loafers. I already "had the job" within the company, everybody on the actual team I was to be transferring to loved me, but... the final interview was with my new Boss' Boss, and my to-be-new boss told me, "yeah, you're going to have to come back to see him, he'll flat out refuse to hire anybody who wears blue jeans to an interview."

As a furry that doesn't attend conventions, this is having me reconsider it.

Yep. Toxic AF, and yet they loom. 🙆🏼‍♂️

i reckon you could walk away from a con with a new job, living situation, and even a romantic partner if you wanted. furries are weirdly good at networking for how often they’re treated as weird pariahs by normies.

sounds like you’re not faking it enough

golden ticket to literally any tech-adjacent industry, dealer’s choice

why fake it when you could be good at what you do?

yes please

a fursuit is not a requirement for being a furry

you should they're super fun

Yeah I made a career change and am now freelancing. I have not applied for a job in 5 years. It’s kinda nice.

Once in a while? Try weekly, more like. Echography is a killer of joints something bad. If you're a massage therapist and know obgyn and midwives, you've got your market right there.

I know my mother-in-law, and she knows everyone apparently. Excellent strategy on my part, having a sibling that got married. 40 years in the making that plan.

The thing is I hate dealing with recruiters because they'll never tell you anything unless you go behind their back, but the only reason I'd be incentivized to go behind their backs is because they are all universally useless, don't answer emails, don't negotiate a decent salary for you, and don't listen to basic instructions like I'm not willing to move out of the local area (they define the local area to be the entiretive of planet Earth, but predominantly Dubai).

The absence of shame is almost a social superpower.

They are outcasts of society, so they stick together. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a network of furies all looking out for each other in every field. They probably have a secret handshake or wink or something.

I never got anywhere with recruiters

G: walk in and demand to speak to the manager

Just to be the contrarian: my first job in my current industry was through a recruiter on LinkedIn. It got me an instant 50% salary bump and after a few years and promotions I was making double the previous job.

My second job was... through a recruiter on LinkedIn. It got me an instant 30% salary bump and now after more years and promotions I'm over double the first job.

This in in a country where I had immigrated 10 years prior. For me linkedin is the best social network ever.

Not a contrarian take, happy that worked for and to hear your success story.

Who initiated the conversation with recruiter? you or them?

Linkedin never worked for me, not in the beginning in my career, not 10 years later but maybe I was using it wrong (first job was some random job board, 2nd was cold emailing a CTO, ...)

Always the recruiter initiating. As anyone working in IT, I get multiple messages a week, one in ten are relevant and one in ten of those are interesting, but I'm not jumping jobs every year, so it works in the end.

Its really just have a complete profile, listing keyword technologies. In the meantime I have a few recommendations but I don't think those make a difference.

That's K, for Karen Method

I think the secret something is the most likely

Because by the time you got good at what a job expects you to be good at, they're already forcing you to do something else

I’ll repeat this to everyone and it’s not because you’re looking for jobs incorrectly, it’s because you said you lack the “hook-ups”. Professional social sites like LinkedIn are critical for this very thing. So even if you absolutely HATE JOE, you connect because one day Joe will be employed and you might not be and have low enough standards to refer you for that $500 hiring bonus knowing full well you hate his guts.

So send connections to people in same and higher roles as you work with them like the professional corporate slut LinkedIn wants you to be so that one day that asshat joe willingly sells his soul for $500 and gets you past the first line of interviews and you get a job. But until then, attend local job field events and make new friends.

Good luck out there to every unemployed person.

P.s. Fucking joe is a fucking cunt.

Maned wolves are cool

As someone who lives where they are naturally occurring, I can confirm that they are cool. There's also a specific tree (lobeira, Solanum lycocarpum) that's essential to their diet and needs those wolves to reproduce.

Animating foxes with passion, exhibit B: Zootopia

What was the name of that con that allowed all the banned people from previous cons? Rainfurrest?

Only for freshers. Experienced candidates hold all leverage today.

How long has it been since you were recruited? I avoid LinkedIn, but I've never needed to look for work because my dad knew a guy and I proved competent when that got my foot in the door.

Still, from what I have heard in the last year or so it has become, at least in part, a cesspool of scams and disingenuous employers wasting your time in their search for cheaper labor... both often powered by LLMs.

• S+: Luke Skywalker
• S: Ben Solo
• A: Anakin Skywalker
• B: Chewbacca
• C: Rey
• F: somehow also Rey

What if what you’re good at is “learning new skills?”

Chewbacca is A, come on.

The type of recruiter is a missing detail there. If you work with a "headhunting" agency they have connections to positions they don't have anywhere else. If you can build a good relationship with a strong recruiter, you can land some pretty sweet gigs. My last two jobs were through the same recruiter I've known for over a decade. Stuck with him even as he changed agencies.

Also how to get an employee that isn't a risk for your business

Any tips on looking for a job at a furry convention?

That's awesome! I would imagine that the roar barks at night are probably the stuff of nightmares... unless you know it's coming from those goofy ass noodle leg guys.

Might be. I've only ever had contact with absolute imbeciles. So bad, that I just ignore every headhunter request coming in.

Consent should be involved

Also: be allistic.

What is your dream job?

There has to be a demand. If your industry is overpopulated or your skillset isn't popular, recruiters can't place you. They get paid when they fill a spot. The better the candidate matches the role, the easier it is to convince a hiring manager to take the interview.
Good recruiters know enough people to place oddballs. Lazy recruiters are matching bullets on job requirents.

The recommended format is what all the AI bots are going to use.

Not too dissimilar to being a human, then.

I have similar experience with Linkedin.

.....what the hell are these letter, and why are the colors backwards?

But it's also what all the AI filters are going to be checking for no?