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What reputation do you need on Stack Overflow to receive an invite to Careers? [closed]

What reputation do you need to have on Stack Overflow to receive an invite to Careers? The site says "Stack Overflow grants new invites to users fitting certain criteria of activity on Stack Exchange ...
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How are percentiles calculated in Careers 2.0?

I noticed that a percentile is placed at the top of my resume in Careers 2.0. How are these percentiles calculated? Is there a certain threshold you need to be over in order for it to be displayed?
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Can I be registered on careers.stackoverflow.com as an employer and a candidate?

When I log in, I'm only shown the candidate side of the site. I can't search for candidates. Am I missing something? Why can't I be an employer and a candidate? Update: It seems that this isn't ...
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Also can't access My Profile on Careers 2.0

I seem to be suffering from the exact same problem reported in this question. The answer and subsequent comments there seem to suggest someone on the admin side needs to do something to clear the ...
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Top Tags removed from Careers Profiles?

My profile on careers.stackoverflow.com used to have a part where you could highlight top tags, i.e. it would something like along the lines of Top % for [TAG]. That doesn't seem to be showing today ...
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careers.stackoverflow.com profile picture other than the gravatar one

Can we put profile picture other than the gravatar one at careers.stackoverflow.com? I am able to remove my gravatar picture but I am not sure if I am able to upload a new one.
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how to delete account and remove resume from Careers.stackoverflow.com? [closed]

Is there a way a registered user can remove his/her resume from careers.stackoverflow.com?
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Can't access My Profile on Careers 2.0

I just got an invitation to Careers 2.0 and I accepted the invitation sent to my email. While filling the email information on the site, when I typed my SO email (which is the same address that got me ...
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How can I search tags on StackOverflow Careers?

I am attempting to search jobs by tag on StackOverflow Careers. On SO, this is done using square brackets, but that is simply doing a keyword search, and I still get results that don't have the tag I ...
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Why does Careers list "jobs near worcester" on my homepage?

I'm in Bristol, England, and Careers appears to know that (my Profile page shows "Bristol, England"). Whenever I visit the homepage, though, Careers shows a section for "jobs near worcester". Now, I'...
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Stack Overflow Careers

Joel's announcing it now: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ $99/year to post a CV and link to your Stack Overflow profile Introductory DevDays price of $29/three years Students can post for free ...
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Where can I see positions and companies I have applied to?

I am not able to find on my Careers profile the positions I applied to in the past. Is there a way to see positions I have previously applied to? I've sent in applications to around 8-10 positions in ...
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Unable to link SE accounts from Careers profile (but can link to SO answers)

I've come across posts regarding this same issue - all of which seemed to be resolved by Careers support - but even after contacting support, this is still an issue for me. On my Careers profile, I ...
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Can no Longer Find Convert to PDF Option [closed]

There used to be an option to convert my Stack Overflow careers profile to a PDF file, which is a great feature. However, I can no longer find an option to do this. Was it removed?
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Careers 2.0 doesn't have the option to log out from GitHub

I'm trying out Careers 2.0 and I decided to hook it up to GitHub. I quickly blasted through the OAuth without realising that I was logged in using a different GitHub account than my own (a holding ...
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Why does Stack Overflow Careers need access to private Bitbucket repositories?

When I try to link my public CV to my Bitbucket account I get this message: StackOverflow is requesting access to your data StackOverflow is requesting read and write access to your public and ...
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How to ignore an employer by name?

Is there a way to subtract certain employers from the job listings? There are some positions there by companies that keep getting reposted, and I'm not interested in seeing them repeat themselves.
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Careers ad asking if I want to work where I already work?

I just saw this ad on the side of Stack Overflow: I currently work for stealth.travel. It even shows it when I click on the link! How is it possible that the system does not link 2 + 2 together and ...
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top x% in [tag] : rules for the tag to be taken into account?

In the Careers CV, there is a zone with one or more "top x% for [tag]". What are the conditions / rules for a tag to appears in this zone? While I answer quite a lot in the abap and sap tags in SO, ...
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Best way to make a temporary account to share with co-workers?

I would like to allow my co-workers to share my account for a temporary amount of time (3 weeks). I would like to do this so that they have access to and visibility into my Stack Overflow Careers ...
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What does the top % mean on careers? [duplicate]

Is there a meta for careers? If so, sorry this question should be migrated. I'd love to know what this truly means. top 10% out of... 4 million users? top 10% out of the 100 that have asked or ...
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Can't accept Careers 2.0 invitation

I have the same problem that was described in this and in this questions. I received invitation to create Careers 2.0 profile, accepted it and was forwarded to "My Profile" page. Then I tried to fill ...
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Careers - profile views counter reset to 0?

I just took a look at the my profile page on careers and the number of views is 0 for all breakdowns (views, today, week and month). It wasn't like that yesterday...
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My Careers 2.0 account is not linked to my Stack Overflow account

I recently got invited to Careers 2.0, and created my profile there. Soon after I looked over at the stack exchange website and tried to create accounts on all of the sites that I'm interested. Well ...
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Careers: change order of sections in PDF export

Currently on one's Career's profile you can organize, re-order and hide pretty much everything—except for the sections themselves. It would be great if we could actually move entire sections up and ...
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No Careers invitations

On Careers Invitations page you say: Get to 150 completeness, and we’ll grant you a batch of invites. I've got completeness rating of 162 for almost a week. In fact, I'm not going to invite ...
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Republishing Intentionally Expired Job Listings

I want to expire a job listing I have on Careers because we are very close to hiring a particular candidate. But if I do expire the job listing, can I republish it without cost should the candidate ...
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What is the difference between careers.SO, careers.joelonsoftware and careers.SF?

From what I'm seeing, the following three sites look exactly the same. I created a profile on only the first one, but I see I now have profiles on each of them. What is the difference between the ...
Shiplu Mokaddim's user avatar
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What is exactly the "legal right to work in this location"? [closed]

I mostly ask this because I'm from Spain and I wouldn't mind working on the United States. I have the legal right to work there ... provided a did get a Green Pass for which usually helps a lot ...
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1 answer
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Careers: What does "allows remote" mean? [closed]

When a posting is marked "allows remote", does it mean work in the office some days, work from home some days? Or does it mean you could actually live out of town and maybe fly in as needed? The ...
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StackOverflow profile doesn't find Careers profile, despite "Discover" link pointing there

I've seen questions like this one whose answers seem to suggest that linking your SO profile to your Careers profile was (being) implemented last year. However, on my SO profile, the "Stack Overflow ...
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Problem with Career advertisements on SO

Not sure if this is the correct forum to post this to, but here goes: I've been using SO and SF for a few years now and as a developer, it is a must have site for me while I'm working. The problem ...
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SO's access to linkedIn when importing to Careers 2.0

When importing linkedIn to my Careers profile I get asked whether I accept the access to my profile requested by SO. These include: Your profile overviewName, photo, headline, and current positions ...
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Unable to log to careers 2.0 - stuck at login?

I have received some days ago a notification of an invite to join the Careers 2.0 site. The invitation referred to a previous invite, which I never found (starting to believe it was swallowed in the ...
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On my careers profile why are all the "customize public view" checkboxes greyed out?

I would like to display more information in my public view, currently it's very minimal. However when I go to "my profile" -> "public view" -> "customize public view" everything is greyed out. My ...
Gordon Wrigley's user avatar
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1 answer
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Stack Overflow user profile page doesn't want to link to Careers [closed]

It seems like it should now be possible for my Stack Overflow profile to link to Stack Overflow Careers, but somehow it doesn't show my profile (even though clicking the link next to it does get me to ...
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Problem adding a book to Careers

I'm trying to add a book I've written to my Careers profile to no avail. The book has ISBN (978-84-615-9841-0). The book is written in Catalan and the ISBN was registered in Spain. A search in the ...
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How do I set up a job alert to be specific to a company?

Say that I am interested in a specific company that I know advertises on Careers. How do I set up a job alert to get emails when this specific company posts a job. I've tried to put the company name ...
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How often do percentage calculations in the careers site get updated?

I realize this is not a novel question, but I'm assuming that the answer changes over time. How often does the careers site get updated with new percentiles for a particular tag? I'm thinking mine ...
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1 answer
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Careers doesn't allow Github Organization Repos

I've got a repo that I contribute to within an Organization that I administer. I'm trying to add it to careers, but it won't allow it. Is this on purpose? I don't really want to fork it to my personal ...
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Careers GeoIP puts me in the wrong country

Similar to: Why does Careers list "jobs near worcester" on my homepage? On the Careers home page I am being shown a list of jobs near Chicago, US. Interesting as that is, I am in York, UK. ...
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No way to respond to message on careers? [duplicate]

Just got a message on careers, but the employer didn't include any contact information they simply said: Interested? Reply to this message and send over a coding sample. I clicked 'interested'. ...
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What does "this one goes to 11" in completion status in edit cv mean

When I edit my CV on careers my completion status says "135% complete (this one goes to 11)". What does that mean? alt text http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/9382/editcv.png
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My reputation on Stack Overflow is not updated in Careers 2.0 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How long does it take for reputation on Stack Overflow Careers to be updated? I have created my profile in Careers 2.0. But my reputation is not updated. It shows 392 ...
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Can't access My Profile on Careers 2.0 after invitation

I seem to have the exact same issue as in this question and this one. The answer and subsequent comments there seem to suggest someone on the admin side needs to do something to clear the issue.
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Outdated job postings? [closed]

Just now I clicked this it took me to http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/55107/analyst-programmer-microsoft-dynamics-crm-net-university-of-oxford?a=15cX0Lk8o but unfortunately I just "wasted my ...
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Cannot link Stack Overflow Account to Careers Account

I have created my StackOverflow Careers panel, and when I click 'add a stack overflow account with over 200 reputation' the site decides that I have no StackOverflow account at all, although my ...
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Can't access careers search after creating a CV [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: Can I be registered on careers.stackoverflow.com as an employer and a candidate? What if you have a careers CV but want to post a job as an employer? I've started filling ...
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How do I pick the vanity url for my stack overflow careers cv?

Joel mentioned on the podcast that we’d be able to pick a vanity URL for our Stack Overflow Careers CV. I can’t see anywhere to set that.
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Is it acceptable to post jobs in this forum?

I am a technical recruiter in the Greater Puget Sound area, and I feel this would be a great place to post my clients' needs. Is it acceptable to post jobs in this forum?
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