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Agree a million percent.

Being able to quickly size up and fire prospects before they become a horrible burden is a tremendous, often hard won talent.

After 24 years on Wall Street in various capacities, I am now in Shanghai, China. It took a personal tragedy for me to re-invent myself but currently I am assisting people globally by resume editing, LinkedIn Profile creation, interview coaching and final edit and review of academic applications to overseas universities. The work is deeply satisfying vs. my prior role making rich people a little richer. And I guesstimate, with proper use of technology, I still have 4-5x revenue potential until I need to find more staff and layer on some new biz lines.

Agreed. I am a member of a club for 2 years in Shanghai, and corporate club coach to help grow a Fortune 500 club stronger. I have seen extraordinary transformations in individuals; often within 1 year. I joke it is a club for all us introverts to get together, support each other, and find our voice. Regrettably I was always too busy or didn't prioritize this craft in my 20s (now 49). It is one of the best, cheapest, most efficient ways to upgrade your career skills bar none.

Couldn't happen to a more manipulative bunch, the faster the better

This is great! We need more open, accessible, widely searching, tools for research.

AWS is not blocked but there are some inexplicable restrictions. Even with full licensing, you can't host a website on S3. And a ton of services are missing. Even SES which per the usual makes no sense. Welcome to the jungle.

They are Trump's way of not having every industry hollowed out so we are only a nation of consumers. What country survives (or is stupid enough to) give up its IP on a monumental scale and survive?

No doubt. Historical examples are not good. The nuclear club gives you clout.

Glad to see I am not the only one. Running a Shanghai based career coaching service (think English resumes, LI Profiles, interview coaching, career path clarifications, strengths testing), I get approached all the time for folks who want 1-2 hours of career coaching, since they are stuck, all for a starbucks coffee. What part of "I am in a for-profit business" do people not understand?

Men and women aren't supposed to have sex anymore without legally binding contracts witnessed by 3rd parties. Otherwise, men have nothing but undefinable downside.

Some like to "play" startup as long as they can.

You speak for those who can't.

Can't seem to find the last one on amazon.com. Do you have an author's name?

"First they came for the jerkers..."

Bro, this will take a long time. Be gentle with yourself. It is the club no one wants to be a member of. I wish you peace and comfort. ~ A 4 year widower of a 37 year old bright light in the world extinguished decades too soon

Also Rstudio mates well with bitbucket for those who want private repos for free.

Congrats Pal. As a fellow resume editor, etc. and 2 years into my professional services biz in Shanghai, hat tip to you.

Interesting that he's out rattling the saber after US opened a can of whoop a$$ on his undocumented mercenaries in Syria. The chess pieces are moving around the board a little more vigorously.

Reach out through my profile and I can give you a basic free review of what you have (redux13 only please, I typically charge for reviews). I run a Shanghai based English resume/LinkedIn Profiles (and other services) editing and enhancement business. I create them multiple times a week for clients globally and received training from the US standards bearer, the National Resume Writers' Association. Previously 24 years on Wall Street, East coast resident, native speaker and liberal arts graduate from good smaller upstate NY college. Speak to you soon.

Regrettably with everything goog but translate banned in China, I will stick to Slack.

Get the joke?

Be really careful with some of the graphically rich resumes. If in a creative field and you are pretty sure if will only be looked at by a human, use it. If applying to Fortune 1000, there is a good chance yours will be ingested by an applicant tracking system (ATS). Not all resume parsers work well on these fancy resumes. I have frustrated clients, on the job search quite a while, who come to me with edit jobs for a lot of simplification so their response rates to go up. Additionally be careful with some of the "progress bars" or "pie charts" of skills. How does a prospective employer gauge the competency of an applicant with 3 bars a opposed to 4 in Adobe Photoshop, as an example?

You raise an incredibly interesting point here. "The biggest threat is their own people." Scams are so prevalent here I often think that what looks like 1984 style policies and procedures is seen in their eyes as a form of protection. To the outside world it is draconian. To them they are trying to protect from internal marauders.

While I appreciate your perspective, and I am not disagreeing, I recently took a survey amount young SH professionals asking about their life paths. Should they do what others (defined broadly) wish them to do for work and/or life or should they seek out what makes them happy and they are skilled and interested in? Overwhelmingly for the latter which surprised me. The educated younger generation is skewed more towards Western ideals I believe. You can't have the extreme western materialism without getting the personal aspirations not to be controlled.

I have always assumed as much. Like the chaff that defensive systems on a fighter plane has. Shoot out a bunch of garbage to confuse the highly targeted offensive action.

It really is insane to hear the very passionate thoughts of my Shanghainese friends when it comes to how bad the US system is or how bad Trump is. But then I realize they have no other outlet for expression about their own system, So they direct their energy at what they think they know however badly reported to them by controlled media. The only thing people will talk about in very hushed tones on a completely unsolicited basis is how badly their families suffered under the CR. Even X generation kids know what was done to them by their own government. That's why the military police popped up in Shanghai train stations 2 days ago. Government protecting itself from its own citizens.

Western corporate types will be freaked out and the dis-investment here will accelerate

I have an S5 (international) that I am thinking of going through the LOS upgrade. It seems super onerous process; worth it? Live in China using another badly restrained S5 (Chinese version).

Don't you worry. He walked away with millions for such a enormous failure. The American dream for C-suiters.