Does being in Hawaii automatically disqualify me from 95% of tech jobs?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    2 months ago

    Not if you can find a remote work scenario. I have a buddy who moved to one of the islands and the company let him stay on and start later and end later to compensate for the time diff.

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    being a small state, there might not be jobs. and like other said change your resume wording and emails around so it doesnt get caught by a filter of a company. CS in general have very tough time finding jobs, even in the west coast, people at my uni were complaining how hard it is. unless you have 1+year experience prior to graduation it might be difficult. i come from a non-programming field.

    you can try exaggerating some of the experience, if you can back it up, like if you have only 3 months, say you had 6months,and so on.

    ghost jobs has been a thing since 2016 before the AI craze they were already using a very early version of it to screen out people from jobs. if you see certain jobs listing SKILLs you cant get anywhere else, that is a ghost job(they already hired that same person already and just put the listing up on the job sites, to not look discriminatory)

    use different emails, or rotate to different emails every week for each resume. and your resume you might want to look at what you can change(trying to pass off school or non-cs experience,etc)

  • MajorHavoc
    21·
    2 months ago

    There’s more remote work options for IT staff today than ever.

    Lots of us are working remote and wishing we could move to Hawaii.

    • foosedev@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      2 months ago

      I am having the hardest time getting hired. I think being in an odd time zone that no one else shares hurts not to mention the labor laws Hawaii makes employers follow.

      Do you know any good resources for finding remote work?

      • MajorHavoc
        1·
        2 months ago

        Time zone does hurt. I think I would proactively communicate “willing to work on these timezones schedules” during the application.

        Most remote friendly organizations have a good amount of flex in the workdayb hours, as long as a few daily hours overlap for everyone. This means it’s often possible to meet half way, where I’m working earlier or later than is strictly ideal for y area, but my day overlaps substantially with the team.

        It is a hard time to get hired, right now. It should get better once the regulation and budget cuts in US politics settle down a bit.

        For remote jobs, I’ve still gotten most of my jobs through personal references from people I know, just like before remote work was so popular.

    • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2 months ago

      Most remote jobs are being offshored to India or other 3rd world countries.

      If the oligarchy isn’t abolished asap then things will get much, much worse before it gets better

  • invertedspear@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 months ago

    It does disqualify you from some. Even my company, that is entirely remote, doesn’t allow for Hawaiian ( and a few other states) residents for some tax reasons.

    If you have close friends or family on the mainland, try using their address for remote work applications and see if that gets your foot in the door.