I’m graduating in May, and accepted a return offer at a company I interned at last summer. I’m reeeeally nervous they’re gonna cancel that offer before September.
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#52No, but I picked a very bad time to quit my job and move from one hotspot to another.
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#53Seems like a good time for people with ideas who can't code to team up with people who can code but don't have a good idea. To take a chance on an app/idea what we wouldn't normally want to quit our day jobs on. Are there sites that team people up like that?
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#54just wanted to say that rather than updating resumes, update your linkedin profile. most opportunities i have gotten has been through linkedin. also, once you have a linkedin profile completed, you can import it into indeed and import your indeed profile into ziprecruiter. also, there are many services out there that will export your linkedin profile as a resume. good luck everyone, i might be joining you guys soon e…
If you don't mind me asking, how many more opportunities came from Linkedin? Last time I was looking, I was getting about 2 new interviews per week from sending my resume through Indeed and about 1 interview per month from Linkedin.
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#55Not yet, but as a contractor-to-hire employee I expect that the latter part of the equation won't be happening at absolute best.
Anybody looking for a FT remote senior designer with heavy component library, react prototyping and sketch/figma skills?
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like this cost is being badly underestimated.
I would be quite surprised if this doesn't turn into a depression. The Fed has essentially already exhausted their options, and we're only a week in to this. Fiscal policy is the only real policy remedy, and capitalists hate that.
> Fiscal policy is the only real policy remedy
The only real remedy is economic activity. That can't happen until people can start spending money again.
There is a huge opportunity in thinking about when things go back to normal, what things will remain permanently changed.
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#57It's going to get bloody out there soon. Minimize your expenses if you don't already do this.
The market was already fairly saturated from what I inferred last year when I jumped ship during a move. Most organizations did not appear to be seriously hiring, they were hunting for a labor bargain or someone to add to their future contact list for quick turnaround when demand rose.
If you didn't think it was an employers market already, it's about to be.
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#58At the beginning of the year, I decided it was time to find a new job after 10 years with my employer. I spent February doing interview prep and conducting interviews. Back then, the COVID-19 was mostly limited to China, markets and governments weren't terribly concerned about COVID-19. I accept a job offer, put in my two weeks notice, and my last day at was last Friday. Hardly anyone was seriously concerned about CO…
If it makes you feel better, I quite a cushy job and joined a startup a month ago. You're not the only one with bad timing :)
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#59I'm one of the founders at Sympto Health - we are helping nurses and doctors communicate more effectively with patients. Nurses spend up to 60% of their day on manual patient outreach, and the vast majority of nurse's I've spoke to complain about the roteness and mundaneness of this outreach.
Our goal here at Sympto is to supercharge the role of the nurse, automating the rote and manual tasks, and ultimately allowing nurses to focus more on patients who need their attention.
As you can imagine, with COVID-19, we are facing unprecedented demand from health systems, who need help triaging the expected massive inflow of patients.
We just closed a fresh round of funding, backed by investors in Modern Health, Udemy, Guardant Health, DoorDash and Airbnb. We are looking to hire a Founding Engineer who is interested in playing a critical role in helping the lives of thousands of patients & care teams across the country.
Check out our careers page (https://www.symptohealth.com/careers) or email me at prithvi @ symptohealth.com
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#60Just got my first job offer and excited to start! (In Italy!)