@AIQ no harm done, either way. It wasn't for you

@AIQ The first thing you need to do is take the pressure off of yourself.

@Old_Lamplighter few people are anywhere near their resume here... I've even looked up some people I know on linkdin for a laugh and it's like walking into a fantasy World

@Kilisi Well, when I was younger, desperate and far more foolish....

@Old_Lamplighter ahaha... I was blue collar labourer and forestry, didn't need a resume

@Kilisi I have had several careers in my lifetime, I feel old beyond my years.

didn't even need a reference back then, they just throw you in the deep end and see whether you handle it or give up crying after a couple of days

always half regretted walking out of the forest and going to Uni as an adult

@Kilisi Yeah, I am still kicking myself from moving from the Road dept to IT myself

Hey @DarkCygnus I just wanted to ask, before I delete my account here, whether in the end you felt that our interaction here was constructive or not? I hope it was. My sole aim was to help interviewees with their English (that’s my job!). [My own feeling is that your post is now really helpful without the bracketed bit you decided to delete]. I hope you found my interactions with you both friendly and respectful, and that we got round any miscommunication in a civil and positive manner.

@Araucaria-Nothereanymore. To be honest and with all due respect the case deserves, I did find the interaction a bit annoying and, as other users pointed out, a bit obsessed with Linguistics. You missed the point completely.

That user (OP from the post) main language isn't English. The whole point was they asking if saying wanna, gotta, etc. is professional or not... the fact that those words are or not slang, or contractions or fast speech is irrelevant to the user asking "Are words X, Y, Z professional to use during an interview"...

if this were asked in Linguistings SE yeah, surely go ahead and clarify that they are wrong and that is not slang, nor contraction. But here we give professional advise and that was the focus of my answer and why your comments and observations were tangential and insistent.

@Araucaria-Nothereanymore. thus if I were to put your comments and interaction on a scale it will lean to the not constructive side. Respectful, well... yeah I give you that one, but surely insistently respectful if there is such a thing.

Yes, perhaps the post improved a bit (or 1000% according to you) when I removed that small part.

But judging by you deleting your account after this "interaction" says a lot about your intentions to this community, and that it seems you came here only to nitpick on Linguistic and Syntactic, and not really care if OP received professional advise on helping them in their interview.

But anyways, we are good. Wish you well. Cheers.

Can I have some advice - if you are returning a work laptop, is it best to wipe it yourself or leave them to do the wiping?

@BlackPanther Most companies have a policy where they wipe it out between every employee, now it all depends on whether you use your laptop for personal reasons and want to make sure there is no trace of your personal usage left on it

@BlackPanther unless they want you to wipe it I'd always just eradicate anything personal on there and return it as is

@avazula I don't use it for personal stuff. Thanks for the info.

@motosubatsu I offered to wipe it myself, but I'm realizing Apple makes everything hard.

@BlackPanther I think that's covered your bases.. if they want it wiped they'll presumably tell you so

@BlackPanther So long as you have ZERO personal information, including web searches, on that laptop, you are fine letting them wipe it unless they specify otherwise.

@Old_Lamplighter I do have web searches as google chrome uses my google account. So any searches I've done on a different device that uses my google account shows up on the work laptop.

@BlackPanther turn off syncing on Google, clear your history on your work laptop, and you should be fine

@DarkCygnus you sir, have the patience of a saint

@AIQ I usually see those listed as "Volunteer Experience" or simply "Other Experience" when contrasted with Professional Experience/History.

(Sorry, realise you gave some input here in the past few days. It's been a bit busy so chat is the first thing that goes on backburner then. ;))

Regarding those interview questions: that sounds like a crap interviewer doing an interview "by the numbers". They either don't know how to hire or they are only interviewing you as a formality with no intention of offering you the job.

I wouldn't put any stock in any reasons given by that kind of interviewer for rejecting you.

It'll just be a meaningless but legally safe excuse.

Would be happy to take a look at your (anonymised!) resume if you like. I'm sure others here would as well.

That said, we're mid-pandemic so job searching is always going to be hard. Nothing to do but keep at it really.

@AIQ Also, for new grads I usually see this rolled into the main "experience" section alongside summer jobs and the like. But as soon as you have "real" professional experience it becomes a bit iffy to do that.

Assuming the experience is meaningful and relevant, it can be brought up in a cover letter. If it rises to the level of a real part-time volunteer role I'd be more comfortable listing it as professional experience.

But beyond that, you're going to find that bringing it up in an interview is the best way to shine a light on it.

@Old_Lamplighter Can't I just erase the laptop instead?

If so, what's the best way to erase/wipe a MacBook? I think the disk utility GUI has a button for that, but I don't know if I also need to use dd to fill the drive with zeros?

@BlackPanther You can, however you need to make sure any company related information is stored somewhere else e.g. cloud, as you don't want to erase it and then find you've deleted company critical work

@BlackPanther This about covers it: imore.com/how-to-prepare-mac-for-sale Feel free to Google for more resources

@Draken No one else uses the laptop but me. Of course there's an Admin user but that was only used to set up my user account on the MacBook pro. So company information should not be at risk :)

@Draken Thanks for the link. A quick skim indicates that dd is not even necessary.

Oh, good ol' DD

sudo dd if=/dev/null/ of=/ and you are gonners

(dont run that command though, just joking)

you can always microwave your hard drive

Hope you are doing good, folks.

Random fact: 19 caps away from Legendary Badge :)

@DarkCygnus it is an exclusive club. ;)

I think there's only 11 of us

congratz :)

or actually, my condolences hehe jk

@motosubatsu yep, 11 so far...

I knew i was racing with Enderland, but he beat me.

@DarkCygnus @Lilienthal Would this question be on topic here?

@Lilienthal Hello, yes I will go with something like that ... @Old_Lamplighter suggested the same ...

@Lilienthal Wow thank you!! This would be a big help ...

@AIQ I also review resumes' should you be so interested

Huh. I did not expect that question to go HNQ.