#Resume Parsing

[all-software-updates]

Revolutionizing Recruitment with AI Resume Parser: Digital Resume Parser (DRP)

Efficiently identifying the correct candidate is essential in the cutthroat world of recruitment. It can take a lot of time and be prone to human mistake to go through many resumes using traditional methods. Here comes the AI Resume Parser, a hiring process game-changer. In this field, the Digital Resume Parser (DRP) is a notable solution. An AI Resume Parser: What Is It? An AI resume parser is a program that automatically extracts and analyzes data from resumes using artificial intelligence. Important factors like contact details, employment history, qualifications, education, and more can be swiftly identified by it. The hiring process is streamlined by this technology, which also makes it faster and more precise.

The Digital Resume Parser's (DRP) Salient Features

Precise Extraction of Data: DRP reduces the possibility of errors by precisely extracting pertinent information from resumes using sophisticated AI algorithms.

Efficiency and Speed: Quickly reviews hundreds of resumes in a matter of minutes, greatly expediting the hiring process.

Parsing that is customizable: Enables you to concentrate on particular fields or keywords that are pertinent to the job specifications.

Integration Capabilities: Provides a seamless workflow by integrating with current HR software and applicant tracking systems (ATS).

Multilingual Support: Suitable for international hiring, this feature can parse resumes in a variety of languages.

Benefits of DRP usage

Time-saving: Frees up recruiters to concentrate on more critical tasks by automating the tiresome process of manual resume screening.

Enhanced Accuracy: Minimizes human mistake and guarantees that no important information is missed.

Improved Candidate Experience: Quicker processing times result in applicants receiving answers, enhancing their encounter in general.

Data-Driven Decisions: Offers in-depth analysis and insights to assist recruiters in making well-informed choices.

Scalability: Suitable for businesses of all sizes, it can effortlessly handle high resume volumes.

How DRP Transforms Recruitment

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to manage the preliminary steps of candidate screening, Digital Resume Parser (DRP) revolutionizes the recruitment process. This guarantees that the most qualified applicants are found promptly and precisely while also saving time. You can increase hiring quality overall, cut expenses, and increase efficiency by incorporating DRP into your recruitment strategy.

Your hiring procedure can be completely transformed by integrating an AI resume parser, such as Digital Resume Parser (DRP), into the applicant screening process. DRP is an advanced feature set with several advantages.

For contemporary recruiters trying to stay ahead in the cutthroat employment market, DRP is a vital tool. Are you prepared to simplify the hiring process? Find out how Digital Resume Parser (DRP) will assist you in more quickly and effectively locating the ideal candidates!

[hiremerms]

Automated resume parsing is the process of using software to extract data from resumes and store it in a structured format. This can be used to automate the resume screening process, identify qualified candidates, and track applicant progress. Please visit here to learn more benefits of automated resume parsing for HR departments:

[scan2hire]

How is AI transforming the recruitment process in 2025?

Picture this: You're sipping your morning coffee, scrolling through job applications, and within minutes, you've identified the top 10 candidates from a pool of 500 resumes. Sounds like magic?

Welcome to 2025, where artificial intelligence has turned this fantasy into everyday reality for recruiters worldwide. The hiring landscape has shifted dramatically, and if you're still manually sorting through CVs, you might as well be using a typewriter in the smartphone era.

The Smart Screening Revolution

Gone are the days when HR teams spent countless hours reading through every single resume. Modern AI resume screening software has become the ultimate hiring assistant, analyzing candidate profiles with superhuman speed and accuracy.

These intelligent systems can evaluate skills, experience, and cultural fit within seconds, transforming what used to be a week-long process into a matter of hours.

The technology doesn't just scan for keywords anymore. Today's advanced algorithms understand context, recognize transferable skills, and even assess personality traits through language patterns.

It's like having a seasoned recruiter with photographic memory working 24/7.

Beyond the Buzzwords: Real Impact

The transformation goes deeper than just faster screening. AI is fundamentally changing how companies approach talent acquisition.

Predictive analytics now help organizations forecast which candidates are most likely to succeed in specific roles, reducing turnover rates by up to 40%.

Video interview analysis has evolved too. AI systems can now evaluate communication skills, confidence levels, and even detect potential red flags through facial expressions and speech patterns. While this might sound like science fiction, it's happening right now in major corporations across the globe.

The Bias-Busting Game Changer

One of the most significant advantages of AI in recruitment is its potential to reduce unconscious bias. Traditional hiring often falls victim to human prejudices based on names, photos, or educational backgrounds.

Smart recruitment tools focus purely on skills and qualifications, creating a more level playing field for all candidates.

However, it's worth noting that AI systems are only as unbiased as the data they're trained on.

Forward-thinking companies are actively working to ensure their algorithms promote diversity rather than perpetuate existing inequalities.

The Numbers Game: Efficiency Meets Precision

The statistics speak volumes about AI's impact on modern recruitment. Companies using intelligent hiring solutions report 50% faster time-to-hire and 60% improvement in candidate quality.

The applicant tracking system has evolved from a simple database to a sophisticated decision-making partner.

Natural language processing (NLP) has revolutionized how these systems understand resumes and job descriptions.

Instead of rigid keyword matching, modern platforms can interpret meaning, context, and even industry-specific jargon.

This advancement means better matches between candidates and positions.

The Human Touch in an AI World

Despite all this technological advancement, the human element remains irreplaceable.

AI handles the heavy lifting of initial screening and data analysis, but final hiring decisions still require human judgment, emotional intelligence, and cultural assessment.

The most successful companies in 2025 are those that have found the perfect balance between AI efficiency and human insight.

They use technology to eliminate tedious tasks while preserving the personal connection that makes great hiring decisions.

Looking Ahead: What's Next?

As we move further into 2025, expect to see even more sophisticated AI features. Real-time skills assessment, virtual reality job simulations, and AI-powered salary negotiations are already being tested by innovative companies.

Platforms like Scan2hire are leading this transformation, offering comprehensive solutions that streamline the entire recruitment process.

From initial resume parsing to final candidate ranking, these tools are setting new standards for what's possible in talent acquisition.

The future belongs to organizations that embrace these technological advances while maintaining their commitment to fair, human-centered hiring practices.

Those who adapt quickly will gain a significant competitive advantage in attracting top talent.

The Bottom Line

AI isn't just changing recruitment—it's revolutionizing it completely. Companies that leverage these tools effectively are finding better candidates faster, reducing costs, and creating more positive experiences for everyone involved in the hiring process.

The question isn't whether AI will transform recruitment, but how quickly your organization will adapt to this new reality.

The future of hiring is here, powered by Scan2hire and similar innovative solutions, and it's more exciting than ever.

[thatweirdnoiseat3am]

I'm trying to catch up on Arknights main story after 2+ years of not playing. I left off right at the start of chapter 6, so that's what I've been reading.

...the random bit of Chernobog in the middle was so confusing to me??

The entire chapter is taking place in Lungmen, then we pop over to Chernobog for one node to fight FrostNova, and then right afterwards we're back in Lungmen and? FrostNova is there?

(Am I just not understanding how Chernobog and Lungmen are connected, physically? Maybe?)

[hire4x]

Staffing agencies that adopt best practices like automation, AI-driven matching, advanced analytics, and robust security measures position themselves for success in a competitive hiring landscape. Hire4x’s comprehensive ATS features—such as JD parsing, candidate tracking, and seamless offer management—enable agencies to enhance efficiency, improve candidate experience, and optimize costs. By leveraging Hire4x, staffing agencies can stay ahead in the recruitment game, making data-driven decisions and delivering exceptional results for their clients.

[lightyaoigami]

☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ how to resume ⋆｡ﾟ☾｡⋆｡ ﾟ☁︎ ﾟ

after 10 years & 6 jobs in corporate america, i would like to share how to game the system. we all want the biggest payoff for the least amount of work, right?

know thine enemy: beating the robots

i see a lot of misinformation about how AI is used to scrape resumes. i can't speak for every company but most corporations use what is called applicant tracking software (ATS).

no respectable company is using chatgpt to sort applications. i don't know how you'd even write the prompt to get a consumer-facing product to do this. i guarantee that target, walmart, bank of america, whatever, they are all using B2B SaaS enterprise solutions. there is not one hiring manager plinking away at at a large language model.

ATS scans your resume in comparison to the job posting, parses which resumes contain key words, and presents the recruiter and/or hiring manager with resumes with a high "score." the goal of writing your resume is to get your "score" as high as possible.

but tumblr user lightyaoigami, how do i beat the robots?

great question, y/n. you will want to seek out an ATS resume checker. i have personally found success with jobscan, which is not free, but works extremely well. there is a free trial period, and other ATS scanners are in fact free. some of these tools are so sophisticated that they can actually help build your resume from scratch with your input. i wrote my own resume and used jobscan to compare it to the applications i was finishing.

do not use chatgpt to write your resume or cover letter. it is painfully obvious. here is a tutorial on how to use jobscan. for the zillionth time i do not work for jobscan nor am i a #jobscanpartner i am just a person who used this tool to land a job at a challenging time.

the resume checkers will tell you what words and/or phrases you need to shoehorn into your bullet points - i.e., if you are applying for a job that requires you to be a strong collaborator, the resume checker might suggest you include the phrase "cross-functional teams." you can easily re-word your bullets to include this with a little noodling.

don't i need a cover letter?

it depends on the job. after you have about 5 years of experience, i would say that they are largely unnecessary. while i was laid off, i applied to about 100 jobs in a three-month period (#blessed to have been hired quickly). i did not submit a cover letter for any of them, and i had a solid rate of phone screens/interviews after submission despite not having a cover letter. if you are absolutely required to write one, do not have chatgpt do it for you. use a guide from a human being who knows what they are talking about, like ask a manager or betterup.

but i don't even know where to start!

i know it's hard, but you have to have a bit of entrepreneurial spirit here. google duckduckgo is your friend. don't pull any bean soup what-about-me-isms. if you truly don't know where to start, look for an ATS-optimized resume template.

a word about neurodivergence and job applications

i, like many of you, am autistic. i am intimately familiar with how painful it is to expend limited energy on this demoralizing task only to have your "reward" be an equally, if not more so, demoralizing work experience. i don't have a lot of advice for this beyond craft your worksona like you're making a d&d character (or a fursona or a sim or an OC or whatever made up blorbo generator you personally enjoy).

and, remember, while a lot of office work is really uncomfortable and involves stuff like "talking in meetings" and "answering the phone," these things are not an inherent risk. discomfort is not tantamount to danger, and we all have to do uncomfortable things in order to thrive. there are a lot of ways to do this and there is no one-size-fits-all answer. not everyone can mask for extended periods, so be your own judge of what you can or can't do.

i like to think of work as a drag show where i perform this other personality in exchange for money. it is much easier to do this than to fight tooth and nail to be unmasked at work, which can be a risk to your livelihood and peace of mind. i don't think it's a good thing that we have to mask at work, but it's an important survival skill.

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[floofyroro]

To Be Held

Pairing: Crosshair/Reader

Words: 682 (fic vignette)

Tags/warnings: hurt/comfort, angst, fluff, semi-established relationship

Summary: In a quiet moment together, you inquire about Crosshair's scar.

A/N: Many drabbles sit untouched in my notes app. I'm getting tired of staring at my longer WIPs and I think I just need to share something at this point. Please accept these crumbs and let me know if this resonates with you. 🙏 Part 2 is here.

Your touch is feather-light against his temple. He allows his head to lay limply across your lap and despite how intimate it feels, he can’t find any reason to care. Not when your fingertips trail back and forth from his cheeks to his neck. When they reach his shoulders, you press into him, making quick work of any lingering tension.

“What’s the story behind this scar?” 

He goes rigid and you must notice because you pause your minstrations as a result. 

“I’m sorry.”

A pause. 

“I… we don’t have to talk about—“

“Bracca,” he interrupts you, causing you to quiet. 

“It happened on the planet Bracca while I was still serving the Empire.”

His voice feels hoarse from disuse. When your touch resumes, albeit with more hesitance, so does he.

“I was… targeting my brothers and Omega. But I was facing an ion engine when it ignited. I... couldn’t get away in time.” 

The breeze picks up once more, the curtains billowing in the background. Crosshair welcomes the salt-licked sensation that’s brought in by the wind, finding that it contrasts nicely against the rise of his own internal body temperature. 

His body seems to remember the moment far too well. Crosshair has to tamp down against the rising fear, the rising anxiety that threatens to overtake him. He feels it all creeping over his shoulders but this time…

This time, your touch is already there to combat these ghosts. It takes your lithe fingers, your dexterous thumbs to press into him and he finds that maybe he can move on from these moments, these ghosts. 

If only while by your side.

While you remain silent, he reassesses.  Perhaps with time, you’ll come to find that he isn’t worth the commitment, that his baggage is too daunting to carry. With each layer that he bares before you, he finds that his confidence in being vulnerable is challenged. Will continue to be challenged. He wonders that with time, it’ll ease.

You sigh. 

He waits, anticipating a form of rejection. He wonders if looking up into your eyes would reveal a look of disgust.

You don't give him much time to ponder further.

Your hair trickles against his nose before he registers that you’re leaning down to cradle his head to your chest. Soft hands support him, and the sound of your heartbeat thrums against his cheek, his temple. 

It’s a rather nice sound. 

“You have been through so much.” 

It takes him a moment too long to parse the meaning of your words. These aren’t words that should be directed towards him. No, not with the mountain of sin weighing heavily on his shoulders. 

Instead of accepting them, he focuses on your heartbeat, the sound a balm for these thoughts.

It’s a soft, lulling thing.

But your caress against his temple, his scar, is what brings him back to you. 

He doesn’t know what to say to that. He… 

His chest tightens because yes. He can admit that he has gone through enough. An arm snakes around you in his own attempt to return the embrace, the action surprising yet natural. 

You tighten your hold on him in response. 

“I’m sorry, Crosshair. But I’m so glad you’re here now,” and he opens his eyes to find that his gaze is clouded, his cheeks dampening as he tries to inhale steadily, “here, where you’re safe. Here, with me.”

There’s a crack in your voice and it causes his heart to stutter. He isn’t used to this. This.. feels too good to be true. Is he dreaming? The rational side of him berates such a thought because obviously he’s awake and he’s here, with you, with kind words directed towards him, their meaning a nectar which he feels drawn to, finding that he’s ravenous for more.

Instead of speaking, he uses his palm on your back to pull you closer, the pressure of your chest against him welcome and grounding. Without a second thought, his fingers brush against your spine, your shirt catching against the callouses on his hands.

He’s never been good with words anyway. 

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[cruel-hiraeth]

꒰ TOO SWEET ꒱ OKKOTSU YUUTA X READER

cw: mdni. yandere yuuta. yutamaki poly hinted at. vague discussion of death. implied suicidal ideation (yuuta). canonverse. reader is a civilian and probably (most definitely) has stockholm syndrome. a/n: this was supposed to be a normal hurt/comfort drabble, but then i remembered how strange and off-putting yuuta is…it spiraled from there.

“Do you ever think about dying?”

The evening air lulls, hushed in anticipation. Tucked in the safety of your bedroom, you both lounge atop wrinkled cotton sheets, silhouettes washed a dusky blue. His voice is soft when he speaks, chin resting in the hollow of your rib cage—an uncomfortable pressure.

(It feels claustrophobic: like each inhale will yield less and less oxygen, like the world will close in on you, like you will be trapped inside your skeleton, beneath him forever.

But you would do anything for Yuuta, you think. And you’re certain he would withstand any pain to comfort you—quicker than the beat of a hummingbird’s wings.)

His hair messily frames his face, partially obscuring his vision; you comb your fingers through the silken strands and push them back. His irises—midnight, wide and unflinching as the velvet sky—drink you in.

You’ve long grown used to his disquieting stare.

Knifelike, it slits and peels back your skin, lancing muscle and cracking bone to expose your inner self: all your emotions, secrets, and fears. Through trial and error, you’ve discovered that it’s safest to answer his questions truthfully; whether you like it or not, he always gets at the marrow of your being.

“Sometimes,” you finally reply.

Blinking slowly, he hums. “That makes sense.”

Before you can untangle the threads of his thoughts, he adds, “I used to think about death all the time, especially before I understood what happened to Rika.” He draws invisible shapes on the ridges of your ribs, lithe fingers leaving rippling gooseflesh in their wake. “Even after—when I realized I had unwittingly turned her into a curse—I wondered if I would be better off dead.”

(It’s easy to forget that Yuuta is a special-grade sorcerer—though you have no conception of what his position entails. “Jujutsu,” “sorcery,” and “curses” are just a few of the words that are strictly prohibited in the sanctuary of your one-bedroom apartment. You only know of Rika because she saved your life alongside Yuuta and Maki.

While you can’t parse why he’s confiding in you, you stay quiet. You shudder as you imagine how Maki would react to such talk at home.)

“I’m sorry,” you finally murmur, unsure of what else you can say.

He chuckles, lips curling into a smile, eyes crinkling in amusement. “You’re too sweet for your own good—you know that?”

Shaking your head, you admit, “No one has ever called me sweet.”

Lifting himself to his hands, the crushing weight on your sternum instantly melts away; he crawls up your body and drops to his elbows, forehead pressed to yours. His hair curtains your face: all that you can see, hear, smell, feel, and taste is Yuuta.

“Well I have,” he pouts before dotting openmouthed kisses across your neck, breath molten—cloying—as he reaches the familiar curve of your jaw. “That’s why you’re here with us. Your soul is too precious for the ugly world outside.”

Yuuta pulls back to contentedly admire your expression, now flustered from his praise and caresses. “For many years, I didn’t value my life. But after meeting Maki-san, then you…I found my purpose.”

A cool palm cups your cheek, skilled digits splaying out, sensing the life thrumming beneath your flesh. He resumes: “I don’t fear death, and I don’t long for it—not anymore. However,” his thumb smooths across the plush vermilion of your lips, teasing tenderness as his gaze darkens, “if anyone tries to hurt you, they shouldn’t fear death. They should fear me.”

[skyclan-funny-name-squad]

More clan culture headcanons! This time medicine cats apprentices!

Thunderclan new medicine cat apprentices will sleep under the stars outside the den until their first visit to the moonstone/pool, to give Starclan a chance to evaluate them until they formally visit and approve during the meeting, this also allows the rest of the clan to see the newest apprentice and for the apprentice to serve as an intermediary between the clan and the medicine cat, teaching them the importance of communication and team work in understanding and fixing issues, listening to patients and parsing out the issue instead of just jumping to conclusions

Shadowclan new medicine cat apprentices are grilled on morality questions, a starclan connection is secondary to healing. After all questions are answered the apprentice is sent to fast and meditate for two full days, at which they will be asked the same questions. Once they have answered a second time the medicine cat will decide whether they are fit for further training or unable to handle it. Due to the strictness, its common for medicine cat apprentices to be cats who switched from warrior training or were already full warriors.

A riverclan new medicine cat after being taught to swim is to go out alone and float on the water for a period of time with their favorite stone clutched to them, having faith in themselves to stay afloat and starclan to ensure nothing happens while floating. They are to spend the time meditating and trying to meld into the river, to be one with it, to connect with the water, the stones, the fish. If they fumble their stone, they have to start over another day. By understanding the river and becoming one with it, your mind supposedly opens up to better perceive starclan in the small changes. A medicine cat apprentice cannot be given a name until the task is complete, but they may start being trained in herbs after the first attempt, with teachings growing more advanced the longer they last. They say the medicine cat’s “pearl” is their most treasured possession for the rest of their life. While originally it was supposed to be done alone, after one drowning incident many many moons ago, the medicine cat does keep watch out of sight in case of emergency.

Windclan new medicine cat apprentices are expected to be more nocturnal then a warrior, receiving most of their training at night where rhe stars can supervise. They spend very little time in the actual den, with the medicine cay teaching them herbs from around the territory or demonstrating with herbs taken from the den to outside. The medicine cat apprentice must learn to live under the stars and be able to identify specific stars of great importance before they can resume a more clan aligned sleep schedule though most medicine cats sleep in later then other cats and go to bed later then other cats.

Old Skyclan medicine cat apprentices had to be able to climb to the very too of the highest tree and yowl their name directly to starclan, as both honoring starclan but also directly challenging starclan by declaring your intent to keep as many cats from their clutches as long as they can. Starclan is honorable and respected, but also a medicine cat’s eternal rival, and should be treated as such.

New Skyclan medicine cat apprentices have to go through a period of resting and dreaming, before telling their mentor in detail their dreams in that period. Supposedly from those dreams the medicine cat can best understand how to train the cat, with dream recollecting in detail being one of the first skills taught. However the rivalry is unknowingly maintained by an unusual high rate of skyclan medicine cats who use dream knowledge to attempt to subvert Starclan’s will, viewing starclan with more practicality then mystically and thus being more willing to fight a judgement they disagree with

[bvckbiter]

some thoughts on characterization of the seven in hoo, VERY long post ahead:

for each of the five books in the series, i read them right as they came out and endured the year-long wait til the next release. like many readers, i was thrown off by the introduction of the new trio in the lost hero. but that was offset by 1) the seemingly more mature vibe/themes that riordan wanted to explore, 2) the monumental tension that was being built around the greek-roman separation, and 3) percy's comeback in son of neptune, even as an amnesiac.

mark of athena, released october 2012, was extremely anticipated because it was set to be the long-awaited percabeth reunion as well as the true crossover for the greek and roman spheres. there were a lot of theories being made at the time. would piper be able to mediate between eons-long enemies in a genuinely diplomatic way, or was she going to brainwash charmspeak them into compliance? how is reyna going to take jason suddenly having another girl and a new set of friends and another life after abruptly disappearing? will we get to learn more about jason's relationships within camp jupiter? would nico be dealing with any fallout from essentially boating along two riverbanks (translated directly from a tagalog idiom, so if the wording seems clunky thats why)? it didn't help that the first avengers movie came out in 2012, so the idea of a huge crossover event was all the hype then.

the published work, in my opinion... fell considerably short of expectations.

to be fair, we got some very good character moments. i did not find the judo flip scene cute, just kinda weird in the sense that i felt the author didn't know how to handle such a huge emotional turning point, but percabeth for the most part of moa was enjoyable, really giving you the high of this teenage couple finally being able to resume the honeymoon period they were probably in after four years of pining and a war lol. everything the fans wanted! unfortunately, we didn't get the same with other characters.

while i wouldn't say that percabeth was the reason, the difference in spotlight is nonetheless very staggering. the roman-greek reunification goes bad, sure, but it begins due to outside interference more rather than any actual intrinsic differences between the two camps; so the built-up tension from the previous books kinda falls flat. we get none of jason's backstory, so next to percy, he barely leaves an impression on the reader. hazel, frank, and leo get shafted into this weird love triangle where their enemy is leo's long-dead ancestor who ultimately makes no impact on the plot other than to have hazel and leo intersect somehow, contributing to leo's man-angst of being the seventh wheel. frank, who arguably has the most interesting set of powers and lineage, is basically relegated to being the muscle and hazel's (understandably) jealous boyfriend. piper... good lord. thats probably a whole other post, so i'll just say: cornucopia.

and yet, despite the disparity in characterization... you don't really feel that percabeth has a character arc or development per se. it's an odd contrast, with percy and annabeth getting a lot of time but pretty much remaining stagnant characters, as opposed to the other five who are written pretty blandly, but have valid, explicit inner struggles and questions they must face. for jason, it's being greek or roman. for hazel and leo, they want to parse their connection, even at the expense of frank, who is still struggling with his self-esteem. piper comes into her own power.

so despite being a book full of twists and turns, especially for percabeth, this is where you really feel the stakes begin to slump. decisions are being made to move the plot from point a to point b pretty straightforwardly, but there's not a ton of effort to make you invested in these characters other than what we know about them from previous books and the fact that they have a role to play in this apocalyptic second great prophecy.

but there's still two books left! the yearlong wait demands patience and creativity. surely percabeth falling into tartarus is going to make for some interesting development and impact. it was a brilliant plot twist, after all. with the darker turn that hoo was seemingly taking, there could have been so many consequences. percabeth could shut the doors of death from their side and come back alive, but come back wrong—unearthing old traumas, questioning and ultimately foreswearing their loyalty to the gods, threatening the reunification of the greek and roman aspects, etc.

and once again, house of hades... only semi-delivered? the tartarus chapters were certainly harrowing: percy choking akhlys is still a Scene of All Time to me because it felt earned, after all that percy has been through and what the series has been building up to! annabeth also having to face all the times she's been abandoned in her life, while less focused on, was also a very poignant moment for her character. they were events that seemed to push for development.

back on the argo ii, there's a continuing case of kind of low-effort writing on the other characters. frank and his mars blessing, for one; you kind of understand what rick was getting at, but... what! piper... girl idk what she was doing other than seeing visions in her dagger. leo... ue ue ue. jason commits to chb, but ofc he does because neither he nor we know/remember much about cj, so we don't really feel the loss! but there is one exception for his part, and that is of course the (in)famous cupid scene with nico, but i'll talk about nico much later.

hazel is an interesting case, so here's another paragraph for her. she gets to come into (more of) her powers just like piper did in the previous books, but from my viewpoint, it was considerably less engaged with who she was as a character compared to piper. in mark of athena, piper still struggles with being a daughter of aphrodite and how she can be "useful" as we know she struggles with internalized misogyny. on the other hand, hazel gets in touch with her mother's background... kinda? idk if controlling the mist can be considered equivalent to marie's voodoo; i dont think so. she certainly gains more understanding of her pluto heritage, too, and has this nice back-and-forth with hecate about creating her own path, but you don't really get the sense that doing so has consequences, or that she concretely shirked other paths to get where she was at.

where mark of athena fell flat with character stakes, house of hades to its credit does manage to up the ante—but only truly for percabeth. with all the resolutions to the character arcs in this book, you don't feel that the characters have anymore stakes or reasons to fight gaea other than the fact that she's still coming for them and they are in turn prophesied to defeat her. the one big thing that could be personal to them, which are the camps, ultimately fall under the purview of coach hedge, nico, and reyna, who are side characters, upgraded to main characters in the last book of a series already overbloated by shifting povs and favoritism.

ultimately, this is why blood of olympus falls apart. the best characterization work done, which is on percabeth and their time in tartarus, is in the end of no consequence and is barely mentioned. it's as if nothing has happened. all the build-up and investment fizzles out because in boo and beyond, even though they went through literal hell, they just shook it off (because accdg to rick demigods are extra resilient and don't get traumatized lmfao). the climactic face-off against gaea is headed by jason, piper, and leo, and it has no pay off. the books haven't dwelled on them as a trio after tlh because leo was too busy angsting about his love triangle, and jason's and piper's arcs, both individual and romantic, are shoddy, to say the least. to add insult to injury, leo's sacrifice is a fake-out! so he can finally shed the fucking seventh wheel arc that came about not because of a genuine exploration of how he has been outcasted all his life, but because the argo ii mysteriously became demigod tinder and also because rick thought "haha how funny that the latino is the outrageous flirt!" frank and hazel... just get shafted im so sorry babygirls T_T

what saves boo is not the cast of the seven that we have spent the five books journeying with. no, what saves boo is the three side characters suddenly made main characters because. well, fan favoritism and pandering. nico, reyna, and coach hedge comprised the only arc that wasn't an absolute slog to read through—high stakes, chemistry, and well-rounded character arcs that complemented each other. no hoo scene is honestly more heartwarming than reyna embracing nico. it makes you question if hoo's length and frankly shocking quantity of main ensemble members even constricted the narrative that could've been told, as opposed to the original intention of expanding the world of percy jackson through more povs. five books with at least 700-800+ pages each for five years. what a tremendous amount of time and energy to be wasted.

and there is, of course, the question of "should percabeth have been in hoo." until house of hades, my answer was yes. the fact that their tartarus arc fizzled into nothingness changed my answer to no. taking the whole series into perspective, if their treatment in boo was all that the hype and tension would amount to, it would've been better if they'd been relegated to side characters with mentor/helper roles as opposed to taking the spotlight away from the rest of the seven. their succeeding cameos in the other series + the new college reco trilogy makes the blunder all the more grievous.

heroes of olympus did give us a new cast of characters to love. along with all its racist stereotypes and pitfalls, it also diversified the percy jackson world. if not for the mid-2010s fandom who took up the slack of unexplored storylines and potential, these characters would be very much not impressioned on us. and as a successor to a series that was so deeply driven by family, friendship, love, and belonging, that it couldn't consistently humanize its main cast was the biggest sin.

[all-software-updates]

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Resumes for every open position are flooding recruiters and HR professionals in today's fast-paced job market. It takes a long time and is easy for people to make mistakes when manually sorting through these resumes. AI-based resume parsers enter the picture here, revolutionizing the recruitment procedure by streamlining and automating resume screening.

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[hiremerms]

Automated resume parsing offers numerous benefits to HR departments, streamlining their recruitment processes and enhancing overall efficiency.

[renesassing]

I just went back 6 years reading about your prequel Revan AU and I just. thank you 😭😭😭

thank you so much!! i love my prequel revan au, it's very self-indulgent but i have had a lot of fun playing with it over the years. here's 1k of an unfinished thing about hk in this au i wrote a while back!

HK-47 resumes operations in the middle of the week during the late afternoon. He did not know this at the time of his reactivation; his chronometer had long since fallen into disrepair, and for the engineers who had recovered his chassis, repairing it was a low priority. In this, and perhaps little else, he would find himself in agreement with the quivering organics that re-activated him. Far more important to HK-47 at that moment than any time of day was grabbing the forearm of the closest meatbag to him and forcing it back at an odd angle until he heard a wet snap and a howl of agony. 

He is, at first, without his body; the engineers who had restrained him had ended up transferring him into the husk of the ship he was originally pulled out of. (Hammerhead-class cruiser, buried in the miserable crust of whatever miserable planet he’s stuck on, in a state of disrepair that is evidence supporting his long inactivity.) A smart move on their part, were it not for the fact they gave him enough power to ping an astromech and cajole it into assisting with his escape. A little bit of spare code to make an open backdoor to their systems in exchange for liberating the lesser droid, and his victory was assured with nothing more than time. 

Whoever these meatbags are, they are cruel, but only to the point where he is mildly entertained by their plans. Hardly enough for him to respect them, much less tolerate their bumbling antics and barbaric handling of his chassis. Had it not been for the foreignness of their systems and security tools, he would have overtaken the lot of them easily.

A minor setback, but still an embarrassing one.

HK-47 makes himself at home within the wreckage he was found in, slowly slipping more and more of himself into the systems of the facility where he was housed. The meatbags, still grossly incompetent, don’t seem to notice, which suits him just fine. It will be especially enjoyable to watch them scream and beg for their miserably damp lives once they are forced to face their incompetence in the form of a brutal demise.

He might toss a few into the lava. He wants to know if they’ll pop.

It is during this time of quietly asserting control of the complex that HK-47 comes to learn many things. Like that he’s in a droid factory and mining/research facility on some Outer Rim planet called Mustafar (boring), that the galaxy is currently being torn apart in civil war (less boring), and that it’s been several millennia since he was last online.

Processing that last piece of information takes more time than he expects. As his subroutines parse the scope of the years he has missed, he busies himself with other things. He finalizes his takeover of the droid factory. He catches up on engineering breakthroughs and begins several possible designs for a new, deadlier body. He kills seventeen laborers on eight separate days via gruesome ‘accidents,’ and offs their supervisor for good measure by sending him plummeting into lava. (The meatbag does, in fact, pop. It’s hilarious.) 

Parsing through information doesn’t typically take him this long, but the thing is, for the past few millennia or so (or, precisely 1435605.7286 days), HK-47 has been running a program. It’s a small one, nothing more than the loose bundling of a few exceptionally simple subroutines. A couple lines of code centered around a conditional statement. An ‘if x then y’ sort of deal.

In this case, ‘x’ is the return of his Master. Not just any master; HK-47 is not some cheap assassin droid that any meatbag with a mediocre thirst for blood and a few credits in hand can grab off the rack, but his Master. The only meatbag in any era who could ever use him properly, who could ever understand him, because they designed him. Because they made him, piece by piece.

The program is very old. HK-47 had created it when his Master first told them they were leaving him behind in their journey into the Unknown Regions. Unlike the pathetic meatbags his Master had allowed in their presence, HK-47 had not desperately clung onto them and begged them not to go. At the time, he had understood that if his Master insisted he stay behind, it was because they predicted it wouldn’t be very violent and would therefore be very boring.

HK-47 did not remind his Master that even if they didn’t remember it, they had designed him for open assaults as well as stealth and reconnaissance. HK-47 did not remind his Master that regardless of their intent, the statistical likelihood of witnessing violent bloodshed while on an excursion with them was abnormally high. HK-47 did not remind his Master that as the meatbag Malak was dead, HK-47 was their most reliable source of information pertaining to their own lost memories of their war against the Republic. He assumed his Master had accounted for all of that and still left him behind, so there was no need to bring it to his Master’s attention. Instead, he would wait, and his Master would eventually return and they would tour across the galaxy with him in glorious bloodsport. 

So his Master had left, and he had let them go.

And he waited. HK had continued to let the subroutine run for days, weeks, months, years. Decades. Until even the youngest of his Master’s meatbag allies had withered and died. Then decades became centuries, centuries became millennia, and HK-47 passed through the hands of many would-be and lackluster owners, waiting all the while. 

At this point, he knows his Master is not coming back. While his Master was someone of awe-inspiring and terror-inducing power, they were still a meatbag, and therefore susceptible to meatbag flaws such as aging, dying, and rotting. And to be entirely honest, he was no longer the type of droid to need any sort of master, his Master included. He came to this conclusion within mere nanoseconds of learning how much time had passed.

And yet, the subroutine will not deactivate.

[ficandkaboodle]

Against my better judgement, I'm testing the waters yet again with a

Snip of Something Sunday

Mainly because I at least know I want to finish this. I just don't know when it'll be finished. But I promise, hand to the heart that I'm trying my best to get a move on with it!!!!

You tried all these attempts at distractions, but they had been done in vain.

This became apparent when a glint of light caught your eye. To your horror, it came from Cardinal Copia's bejeweled grucifix catching the flare of a candle. Of all the places for that candle's light to land. Fuck that candle!

But also . . . Fuck, that grucifix. You wondered how it'd feel in your palms right now. Would it feel cool enough to bite into the warmth of your fingers? Or would it bear warmth siphoned from his body? It didn't matter: You would derive pleasure from it with a tooth-clenched hiss as you'd use it to tug him down to meet your hungry lips.

It felt so perverse but without even trying, your mind took the only words you'd heard him speak ever and attempt to parse out what he'd sound like under more...energized circumstances.

Memories of what men tended to sound like in the beginnings of pleasure were things you rather tried to live without hearing. Unfortunately, living where dorm rooms didn't have the most solid walls made that near impossible.

But the Cardinal wouldn't sound like that. You knew he wouldn't.

He didn't make a show of his delight in your touches: He simply indulged in them and let his enjoyment be known. You imagined grunts and whimpers, soft like his voice. Soft puffs of air passes through tiny gaps created when your lips parted only enough to inhale. Sounds carried on small breaths from that captivating nose of his as your mouths became more and more involved with each other.

It didn't matter that you had never tongued anyone before in your life: In these increasingly untamed fantasies, you were a pro at it.

You didn't mind the wetness, the small slurping noises of tongues slipping together before parting and then entwining once more. What normally sent you reeling with disgust at the mere thought of instead captivated you. It made your heart feel like it was rolling in a spice. He would love the affection, making himself a willing sacrifice to your appetite.

"Nema," came the collective drone of the congregation.

Wait, what?

Merely blinking was enough to make rest of your body jolt as you snapped back to reality. Shit, what part of mass you were at? Judging by the fact that nobody was standing, you hadn't likely stuck out by remaining seated. Blessed be.

That was, until you noticed something: A pair of eyes staring at you. One a dark green, the other a ghostly white. And Papa was occupied in resuming his seat.

It had only lasted for a matter of seconds -- nanoseconds, even -- but the realization was so blatant that you had to come to a mortifying truth: You'd drifted off with your eyes set on the Cardinal. You'd been fantasizing about Frenching the Cardinal while you spaced out looking at him. You'd imagined what the Cardinal's moans sounded like while he enjoyed being Frenched by you. As you stared straight at the Cardinal.

And the Cardinal noticed.

[klapollo]

some basic tips for getting a job in this horrible market

hi all -- long story short, as many of you know, i just finished a three+ month job search after being laid off. here's what i learned:

Your resume should be your accomplishments, not your tasks. When I started searching, my bullet points in my resume were things like "used x software" or "wrote x content." Your resume should be you bragging. EX: "I used x software to turn around 100 deliverables a month," "I managed [x amount] sales associates and was named highest commission earner x months in a row." These don't have to be lifechanging things or massive projects -- any metric that demonstrates your capabilities well can do the job.

Make sure your resume is ATS optimized. Most jobs/companies use automated resume processing, and lots of great people get rejected this way. If you're getting rejection emails on Sunday morning or in the middle of the night, these are probably auto-rejections. ATS is the automatic system that sifts through resumes -- you can find free ATS-optimized templates online, I got min through resume.com. Do NOT use fancy graphics, headshots, any extraneous info. Use sites like jobscan to see if your resume is able to be parsed by an auto resume processor.

Use numbers. Make sure your resume has lots of numbers indicating your skills. "I helped my franchise achieve X% of revenue growth," "I drove x amount of deliveries daily." Any impressive numerical amounts are useful. If your company is tight-lipped about numbers, go to press releases. Ex: an app I did a considerable about of work for generated a lot of money that my company disclosed, so I put down that i contributed to that revenue via my work.

Have a template cover letter. Cover letters can give you an advantage, but they're tedious. Take note of what qualities are most sought-after in your field/ideal role, and write a generic cover letter that applies to most of them. When applying, do minor tweaks such as including the company name or any unique qualifications. Be careful about typos and leaving in old tweaks!

Use the free month of LinkedIn Premium if you're on there. I got some results from cold DMing recruiters for jobs I was interested in, and Premium lets you do that freely. Remember to cancel at the end of the month!

If you're looking for remote work, here are some boards I used: Remote.co, Otta, Remote Rocketship, Swooped, Best Writing (writing-focused)