Comments on: Optimizing Your Job Application to Google http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html Internet Marketing News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dennis Quek http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-62236 Dennis Quek Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:40:31 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html#comment-62236 Is this applicable to the on-site interview or the phone one ? I've just submitted my resume but its more than a week. I hope its bcause of the location cos I applied at the Singapore office, hopefully the time taken it just normal... <em>Dennis Quek's last blog post..<a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dennisquekcom/~3/A3Jag0gphWo/' rel="nofollow">How I manage my money for October 08</a></em> Is this applicable to the on-site interview or the phone one ?

I’ve just submitted my resume but its more than a week. I hope its bcause of the location cos I applied at the Singapore office, hopefully the time taken it just normal…

Dennis Quek’s last blog post..How I manage my money for October 08

]]> By: Andy Beal http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-15505 Andy Beal Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:20:19 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html#comment-15505 No problem Adam...I have those days too. BTW, can you send me something else quirky so I can get back on Digg? :-P No problem Adam…I have those days too. BTW, can you send me something else quirky so I can get back on Digg? :-P

]]> By: Adam Lasnik http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-15449 Adam Lasnik Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:36:22 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html#comment-15449 Heh, Andy! Nah, I think we (and I personally) prefer carrots to sticks. I think I had just read a bit too much (concurrent with your article) about "gaming" the application process, and my good-mood coffee had worn off :o. Maybe I shoulda found myself an aspirin before posting! Heh, Andy! Nah, I think we (and I personally) prefer carrots to sticks. I think I had just read a bit too much (concurrent with your article) about “gaming” the application process, and my good-mood coffee had worn off :o .

Maybe I shoulda found myself an aspirin before posting!

]]> By: Andy Beal http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-15096 Andy Beal Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:17:30 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html#comment-15096 Adam isn't this how Google keeps SEOs in check with search? Lot's of fire and brimstone and "we'll catch you so don't do it", yet people get away with "gaming" Google every day. :-) Besides, haven't you heard of IP delivery? That's Intellectual Person delivery. I simply send over a PHD grad to interview at Google, in my place, while every other employer gets the real me. ;-) Adam isn’t this how Google keeps SEOs in check with search? Lot’s of fire and brimstone and “we’ll catch you so don’t do it”, yet people get away with “gaming” Google every day. :-)

Besides, haven’t you heard of IP delivery? That’s Intellectual Person delivery. I simply send over a PHD grad to interview at Google, in my place, while every other employer gets the real me. ;-)

]]> By: Adam Lasnik http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-15067 Adam Lasnik Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:29:41 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html#comment-15067 Can the test be "gamed?" If, by gamed you mean "applicants answering untruthfully," then, sure! And I suppose, in an extreme situation, it could get them closer to a set of in-person interviews. But is that any different than lying on one's resume? When it becomes crystal clear that you really *weren't* the captain of the cricket team and never did start your own singing telegram business... well, I'd be pretty confident that you'd not get a job offer from Google (or any other self-respecting company). And, at least in the Silicon Valley area, word spreads fast. "Semi-successful liar," isn't the sort of personal quality most folks want to be known for ;) Can the test be “gamed?” If, by gamed you mean “applicants answering untruthfully,” then, sure! And I suppose, in an extreme situation, it could get them closer to a set of in-person interviews.

But is that any different than lying on one’s resume? When it becomes crystal clear that you really *weren’t* the captain of the cricket team and never did start your own singing telegram business… well, I’d be pretty confident that you’d not get a job offer from Google (or any other self-respecting company). And, at least in the Silicon Valley area, word spreads fast. “Semi-successful liar,” isn’t the sort of personal quality most folks want to be known for ;)

]]> By: » Google’s New Hiring Exam In The Spotlight » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-15061 » Google’s New Hiring Exam In The Spotlight » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:04:33 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/01/optimizing-your-job-application-to-google.html#comment-15061 [...] Andy wonders if job applicants are going to learn the system and start optimizing for it, and becoming “black hat” job seekers. Valleywag is already suggesting how to lie to score well. [...] [...] Andy wonders if job applicants are going to learn the system and start optimizing for it, and becoming “black hat” job seekers. Valleywag is already suggesting how to lie to score well. [...]

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