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We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is from Hildy, who’s looking for a new job and doesn’t just want to trawl the back page of the local newspaper. If you’re looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.

“I’m on the hunt for a job, but I was wondering if there’s a site or service that people think is better than the rest? Is there perhaps a service, like Kayak, that pulls together all of that data from various sites and aggregates it all together? The other thing I want to know is if there’s a program that would track applications at their various stages and offer reminders rather than just using a spreadsheet? Any ideas and help would be fantastic, thank you!”

So, what do you all think? Have any of you managed to avoid a pink slip with job search website or app that you’d like to recommend? Did you pay for a month’s free LinkedIn premium and you’d never turn back? Let us know in the comments below.

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How do you stand out from the crowd so that prospective employers notice you? Well, there are lots of ways, but it is best to somehow show the quality of your work in an eye-catching way. Wow them. That’s what Alexander J. Velicky did. He created 25 extra hours of Skyrim.

The 19-year-old Velicky loves Bethesda and would love to work for them, so he spent 2,000 hours creating a mod called “Falskaar” that adds 25 hours of gameplay to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. He created a land mass a third as big as the original map, which is pretty massive. He used 29 voice actors to record new dialog for his NPCs, and recruited over a 100 total people to help him with Falskaar. Now, he waits for a job.

“The best way to show Bethesda Game Studios that I want a job there and should be hired is to create content that meets the standards of their incredible development team,” he says.

I applaud his tactics and his enthusiasm.

[PC Gamer via Legal Insurrection via Neatorama]

Apple’s Siri has always been a work in progress as she can keep up with many tasks we ask her to do, but at the same time she can certainly use some improvement when it comes to foreign languages or accents. It looks as though Apple agrees Siri could use some improvement, which is why they posted 12 new job listings specifically for their popular speech recognition software.

Apple is looking for a number of positions to work on Siri including software and operations engineers and an interaction designer. The software engineer position hints at Siri getting to know a lot more than she does already as they’re expected to “help build out new areas of expertise for Siri, expanding the product’s capabilities for millions of users.” (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Apple’s A7 Chip Could Be Built By TSMC Once Contract With Samsung Expires [Rumor], Android Market Share Dominates iOS Once Again In U.S.,

AOL Tech — the team behind Engadget, TUAW, Joystiq, Massively and more — is looking for a great front-end developer who can help us take Engadget and our other blogs to new levels.

The job is a full-time remote worker position, so the ideal candidate has good time management skills and deals well with working outside of an office. It also means that you get to work with a great team for a great company, get great benefits and a chance to exercise your skills in a high-visibility job, all without having to relocate!

The description:

Front-end developer for AOL Tech (Engadget, TUAW, Joystiq, Massively). The ideal candidate is highly proficient in JavaScript/jQuery, comfortable with PHP / mySQL and experienced in web design, optimization and related technologies for desktop and mobile. A solid understanding of mobile-first design is a must.

Requirements

• High proficiency in JavaScript/jQuery
• Familiar with spriting, lazy loading, and other general performance-optimized techniques.
• Mac access for compatibility with current tools
• HTML5/CSS3
• Git
• SSH

If you’re interested in joining us, please send us a resume and contact information!

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The iPhone 5 already proved Apple’s desire to move away from existing processor designs and exert more control over these fundamental components. Is it too crazy to imagine that Cupertino would like the same sense of freedom with its laptops? Perhaps not, especially since the biggest company in the world just hired a guy called Jim Mergard, who helped to pioneer AMD’s low-power Brazos netbook chips and who had only recently moved to Samsung. A former colleague of Mergard’s, Patrick Moorhead, told the WSJ that he would be “very capable of pulling together internal and external resources to do a PC processor for Apple” — possibly based on a mobile-style SoC (system-on-chip) rather than a traditional PC approach. That’s pure speculation of course, but funnily enough it’s where Intel seems to be headed too.

Filed under: Laptops, Apple, Samsung, AMD

Low-power chip guru quits Samsung for Apple, with heavily implied implications originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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