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The "Skill Inventory" on page 9 is in itself an eye opener. I wish I had it (and pages 10, 11) when I was starting my career.

by hliyan 8y ago

dougmwne 8y ago
The interviewing section starting on page 60 is also great. It's not long on technical interview tips, but gives good lists of common general interview and behaviorial interview questions, plus a good list of questions to ask employers. Running through these in a mock interview or recording yourself would be nice practice and should help with the soft skills portion of any interview. I'd think it'll especially help getting through the HR recruiter gatekeeper. Of course since this is a general handbook for all possible careers you may want to customize to your industry if you're running a practice session. Busniess idea: mock phone/video interviews as a service
- Arkdy 8y ago
  The guys behind Hacker-rank tried something similar in India. Students would pay to practise interviews with someone from the company they were applying to. Their challenge was that the difference between what they had to pay an Amazon/Google engineer for their time and what a student could afford was too small to be profitable. They ended up pivoting to giving the students free access to coding challenges, and changing _the companies_ for a platform to conduct their technical interviews. [1] https://m.soundcloud.com/ycombinator/66-breaking-down-hackerranks https://m.soundcloud.com/ycombinator/66-breaking-down-hacker...
  - zoidzoid 8y ago
    Interviewing.io already does this and although you are paired with random people it works very well to practice
    - dougmwne 8y ago
      I can't tell if it's a recruiting agency disguised as a service or really for the benefit of job seekers. They advertise that 60% of their candidates make it to an on-site. Either way though, very cool and exactly what I was thinking, so thanks for sharing.
- afarrell 8y ago
  > Busniess idea: mock phone/video interviews as a service https://interviewing.io/ https://interviewing.io/ exists

The "Skill Inventory" on page 9 is in itself an eye opener. I wish I had it (and pages 10, 11) when I was starting my career.

by hliyan 8y ago

The "Skill Inventory" on page 9 is in itself an eye opener. I wish I had it (and pages 10, 11) when I was starting my career.

dougmwne 8y ago

The interviewing section starting on page 60 is also great. It's not long on technical interview tips, but gives good lists of common general interview and behaviorial interview questions, plus a good list of questions to ask employers. Running through these in a mock interview or recording yourself would be nice practice and should help with the soft skills portion of any interview. I'd think it'll especially help getting through the HR recruiter gatekeeper. Of course since this is a general handbook for all possible careers you may want to customize to your industry if you're running a practice session. Busniess idea: mock phone/video interviews as a service

Arkdy 8y ago
The guys behind Hacker-rank tried something similar in India. Students would pay to practise interviews with someone from the company they were applying to. Their challenge was that the difference between what they had to pay an Amazon/Google engineer for their time and what a student could afford was too small to be profitable. They ended up pivoting to giving the students free access to coding challenges, and changing _the companies_ for a platform to conduct their technical interviews. [1] https://m.soundcloud.com/ycombinator/66-breaking-down-hackerranks https://m.soundcloud.com/ycombinator/66-breaking-down-hacker...
- zoidzoid 8y ago
  Interviewing.io already does this and although you are paired with random people it works very well to practice
  - dougmwne 8y ago
    I can't tell if it's a recruiting agency disguised as a service or really for the benefit of job seekers. They advertise that 60% of their candidates make it to an on-site. Either way though, very cool and exactly what I was thinking, so thanks for sharing.
afarrell 8y ago
> Busniess idea: mock phone/video interviews as a service https://interviewing.io/ https://interviewing.io/ exists