Good effort. How do I know these are valid entries ?
Rolling out non-anonymous interviews this week. Stay tuned :)
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#22The Product Manager role doesn't mention anything about talking to users. I guess you can't make people say things in interviews, but that is really weird.
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#23can you please add this to your css, i cant see all the other career fair posts
.job_list {
overflow-y: scroll; }
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, but when the astronaut application job posting recently came up, I was super excited. I would leave my technical job in a heartbeat to be an astronaut. But, the qualifications specifically needed specific things. Like, iirc, degrees in hard engineering disciplines. Otherwise it was a clear "No." I would expect them to mention things like really, really needing a hard engineering masters (at least, if not PhD) t…
Crista McAuliffe was a social-studies teacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe Where there is a will, sometimes there is a way.
>> NASA wanted to find an "ordinary person," a gifted teacher who could communicate with students while in orbit.
So i guess maybe some programs like this will appear in the future...
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#25Check out careerfairy.io - the interactive version of careerfair.io :-)
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#27Tech recruiter from Zurich here.
Great idea.
Do you consider to add geographic information? The same job can be quite different in different locations; work conditions and laws differ a lot.
I understand that in the beginning that might segment the website too much.
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#28Love the site. Read a few interviews. I agree with the comment about wishing the interviews were longer and more fleshed out. Take for instance astronaut. Although it offered some nice antidotes, I still don't know what its like to be an astronaut. From the interview: > What was your biggest roadblock to becoming an astronaut, and how did you overcome it? ...Being able to be brave enough to actually apply. Too many p…
Well, how can you expect an astronaut to have a good answer to the biggest roadblock? You need to poll some people who tried but failed to become astronauts. They would know more.
I don't think the problem is who they polled. The problem is that they're fishing out two-sentence platitudes that are not useful.
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#29Love the site. Read a few interviews. I agree with the comment about wishing the interviews were longer and more fleshed out. Take for instance astronaut. Although it offered some nice antidotes, I still don't know what its like to be an astronaut. From the interview: > What was your biggest roadblock to becoming an astronaut, and how did you overcome it? ...Being able to be brave enough to actually apply. Too many p…
Anecdotes I think is the word you were looking for
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#30Love the site. Read a few interviews. I agree with the comment about wishing the interviews were longer and more fleshed out. Take for instance astronaut. Although it offered some nice antidotes, I still don't know what its like to be an astronaut. From the interview: > What was your biggest roadblock to becoming an astronaut, and how did you overcome it? ...Being able to be brave enough to actually apply. Too many p…
Anecdotes I think is the word you were looking for
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