Nice idea! A couple of months ago I read a book from Stanford professor about design thinking method approaching to live. Almost the same - to understand would you love this work or not best to speak with people who already working on this position.
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#32Do you take requests? I'd be interested to hear from folk in particular occupations. If you list the requests, people could vote on them, or you could call for volunteers to answer them.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Failure is the best teacher, in that things working out the way you want them to almost always has a lower probability than the other way around (i.e. you're very good at basketball, so you should have a good chance of being in the NBA right?) This is why easy success stories are so demoralizing to people; they are hearing about the few who got lucky vs the countless ones who did everything they could to succeed but…
How does that relate to failure is the best teacher?
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#34The "interviews" seem to be scraped from Reddit AMAs, take the veterinarian one: https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/veterinarian . The first question seems to be exactly this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/k4jkh/iama_veterinari... This is a rebranding of content farmed from Reddit, which we've seen all over the clickbait journalism world...
hey there - thanks for bringing this up. right now the main goal is to get as much content up as possible, and I leveraged reddit for 2-3 of these interviews. Another one is: https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/firefigher Going forward, I'm going to aim to have all interviews be sourced by myself. Thanks for checking out the site :)
You could at least put some attribution
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#35Great idea. I'd thought of something similar but never got around to it. You can maybe explore Role/Team/Company (ex:Brand Manager/Consumer Product/FMCG company)as title description so somebody searching for either of those finds you. Additionally summary posts can be a sigma of all Brand Manager posts across Teams and Companies.
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#36Damn! I am in midst of designing screens for almost similar web app(the Submit screen looks almost same)! You beat me to it! Very well done!
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#37Cool idea: how are you planning to handle multiple view points or postings for the same job type?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Failure is the best teacher, in that things working out the way you want them to almost always has a lower probability than the other way around (i.e. you're very good at basketball, so you should have a good chance of being in the NBA right?) This is why easy success stories are so demoralizing to people; they are hearing about the few who got lucky vs the countless ones who did everything they could to succeed but…
How does that relate to failure is the best teacher ?
Because amazing success stories are most likely due to chance, not action. This means that the people who succeeded, especially without first failing a large number of times (like applying to be an astronaut or NBA player; you get one, maybe two chances), haven't learned much about how to accomplish those tasks.