{"id":1499,"date":"2006-04-25T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/25\/sent-off-my-first-resume\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T23:50:00","slug":"sent-off-my-first-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/sent-off-my-first-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Sent off my first resume&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent off my first resume today for a job in Champaign.  It&#8217;s for a position at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\">Wolfram Research<\/a>.  They make a software product called Mathematica which is mostly used by scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The odd thing about Wolfram is that they don&#8217;t necessarily advertise specific openings.  You fill out a web form and answer some very specific techie questions and there you have it.  The whole process is done online.  It&#8217;s been nine years since I&#8217;ve looked for a job, have things changed this much or is this just a case of a software company being cutting edge?<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I have my fingers crossed.  We&#8217;ll see if Wolfram bites.  I have an odd mix of skills, and I&#8217;m finding that most companies are looking for specialists.  I&#8217;m a bit more of a generalist.  Probably explains why I like to multi-class when I play RPGs.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent off my first resume today for a job in Champaign. It&#8217;s for a position at Wolfram Research. They make a software product called Mathematica which is mostly used by scientists. The odd thing about Wolfram is that they don&#8217;t necessarily advertise specific openings. You fill out a web form and answer some very&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}