I am looking to get a job in the PC assembly industry (yes, servicing gamers) but I need some advice in applying for the job, specifically resumes, what rights do I have, what red flags to spot, and how to prepare for it.
One of my biggest considerations is that all jobs here somehow require a degree.
I wish I had more advice to offer than just lie on your resume. But craft good lies. There’s nothing illegal about severely misrepresenting your educational history, you just need enough supporting evidence to have the lie pass, but not so much that you’re committing fraud. Example being: it’s fine to have a friend pretend to be a reference from a company that never existed. It’s not fine to draft a fake degree document.
Most companies aren’t going to put in the leg work to fact check anything you put int here beyond references. With a couple of committed friends and enough industry knowledge between you, you can have most recruiters believing you have years and years of experience.
That’s my advice wrt resumes. Don’t have enough experience in this specific industry to offer any other help.
Nope, I refuse to commit fraud
Your loss, man 🤷 You’re competing with fraudsters to work with fraudsters, it’s just the market.
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Everyone lies and embellishes their resumes. Everyone. If they tell you they don’t then they are lying. There is nothing to gain in trying to navigate an inherently ignoble system with nobility. They will chew you up and spit you out and you still won’t have a job.
Like, prebuilt machines? Or custom builds? That’s a very niche industry, and you’ll have to rely on manufacturers having their center in your city, which means you need to be on the coasts or somewhere like Texas. What’s your qualifications? Building your own PC is unlikely to get you in the door at a big company like Dell, I’m unsure about more boutique brands. I’m adjacent to the industry, and have experience both in assembly and PCs professionally, so I’ll help where I can if you have any specific questions.
I have a buddy who managed to leverage experience in electronic repair to get into a warranty servicing center in Texas making pretty good money and doing simple repairs, might be something to consider.
Custom builds
There’s really only a handful of companies who do that sort of thing, and they’re very boutique or offshoots of larger companies. You have to hope they’re nearby to you, I’d say 80% of the us has no such companies around that someone could work at. You’re basically looking at like iBuyPower, Alienware, and a handful of other companies that have successful businesses doing such a thing.
The vast majority of gamers either buy prebuilts or build their own. Not many are willing to spend the ridiculous amounts of labor costs it takes to have someone do it for them. When I had my repair shop, we built a few custom builds for customers, and it was mostly young teens with their parents paying who weren’t comfortable building it themselves.
What’s your skill background and experience? Are you in an area with existing custom building companies? What skills are they looking for in their listing if so? How much build work have you done, and how much experience quality testing? Are you familiar with benchmarking tools, and how to isolate defective or non-functioning components?
