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Show HN: Career Fair – Learn about Jobs by People Who Have Done Them

161 points by shsachdev 6y ago

Closi 6y ago
Hey - Nice Site. I noticed the below vuln because you currently aren't filtering inputs sufficiently. The validation looked weak as it was rendering html, so I did a bit of testing and found you can run javascript hidden in an image tag like the below: <IMG """><SCRIPT>alert("XSS")</SCRIPT>"\> You can see this running on the below: https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/test https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/test I suspect if I put this in the job name it might actually run the javascript when anyone visits the homepage?
- shsachdev 6y ago
  thanks for letting me know - yeah, I created this a while back and didn't sanitize inputs as well as I should have. will push an update to take care of this today!
saadalem 6y ago
I love the overall idea but the design on mobile is messy !
- shsachdev 6y ago
  hey thanks for the feedback! yeah, I agree - I coded this from scratch (no templates etc) and this is one of my first projects. Definitely going to clean up design on mobile.
taylortrusty 6y ago
Love this idea. Found myself reading several of the interviews. Only feedback is I wish they were longer, more detailed.
- shsachdev 6y ago
  thanks for the feedback and glad you like the site. that's the next step - Quarantine has given me more time to invest in this idea so I'm going to be amping up the quality of these interviews.
bko 6y ago
Love 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 people are too shy or afraid of failure. If there's something you want to do you just have to go for it. That's a bit of a non-answer. It's like asking someone how they ran a 100 mile ultra-marathon, and they said "one step at a time!". I'd be more interested in the qualifications and skills they're looking for? What age are astronauts and where do they recruit from? How much time do you spend in space or otherwise away from your family. Are all the jobs clustered in one geographical location? Also, I think you should make the About section feel a bit more personal. You linked to your personal twitter elsewhere but not in this page.
- perl4ever 6y ago
  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.
  - chrisseaton 6y ago
    Huh interesting. You could have a website where for each job people want you find someone who failed at each point along the way to getting it, so you can know what to avoid doing yourself.
  - craftinator 6y ago
    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 it just didn't work out.
rkho 6y ago
Love the idea! I read through VC Associate and had a couple ideas: - A list of industry-specific terminology used in the interview at the top. I was unfamiliar with the concept of financial modeling, would have been nice to have a quick definition from the interviewee's own words. - The ability for readers to ask followup questions (without the guarantee that they be answered) and/or a way to contact the interviewee directly in an anonymous way (definitely way beyond MVP, but it's fun to think about)
WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
I added my own.
starpilot 6y ago
The "interviews" seem to be scraped from Reddit AMAs, take the veterinarian one: https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/veterinarian 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_veterinarian_ama/c2hgalx/ 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...
- shsachdev 6y ago
  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 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 :)
  - taylortrusty 6y ago
    Then the proper way to do this is list the sources at the bottom of each.
  - staz 6y ago
    You could at least put some attribution
bias_var 6y ago
This is awesome. I was thinking about something similar. There is currently nothing right now which tells you about the day-to-day workings of several professions. Watching this space.
cryptozeus 6y ago
Good effort. How do I know these are valid entries ?
- jocko66 6y ago
  Rolling out non-anonymous interviews this week. Stay tuned :)
onion2k 6y ago
The 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.
kevindeasis 6y ago
can you please add this to your css, i cant see all the other career fair posts .job_list { overflow-y: scroll; }
thomas-schulz 6y ago
Check out careerfairy.io - the interactive version of careerfair.io :-)
deleted 6y ago
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iwangulenko 6y ago
Tech 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.
NotJustSerafim 6y ago
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.
JoeDaDude 6y ago
Do 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.
throwaway_78321 6y ago
Great 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.
phekunde 6y ago
Damn! 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!
evanmaynard1 6y ago
Cool idea: how are you planning to handle multiple view points or postings for the same job type?

161 points by shsachdev 6y ago

Hey - Nice Site. I noticed the below vuln because you currently aren't filtering inputs sufficiently. The validation looked weak as it was rendering html, so I did a bit of testing and found you can run javascript hidden in an image tag like the below: <IMG """><SCRIPT>alert("XSS")</SCRIPT>"\> You can see this running on the below: https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/test https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/test I suspect if I put this in the job name it might actually run the javascript when anyone visits the homepage?

shsachdev 6y ago
thanks for letting me know - yeah, I created this a while back and didn't sanitize inputs as well as I should have. will push an update to take care of this today!

saadalem 6y ago

I love the overall idea but the design on mobile is messy !

shsachdev 6y ago
hey thanks for the feedback! yeah, I agree - I coded this from scratch (no templates etc) and this is one of my first projects. Definitely going to clean up design on mobile.

taylortrusty 6y ago

Love this idea. Found myself reading several of the interviews. Only feedback is I wish they were longer, more detailed.

shsachdev 6y ago
thanks for the feedback and glad you like the site. that's the next step - Quarantine has given me more time to invest in this idea so I'm going to be amping up the quality of these interviews.

bko 6y ago

Love 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 people are too shy or afraid of failure. If there's something you want to do you just have to go for it. That's a bit of a non-answer. It's like asking someone how they ran a 100 mile ultra-marathon, and they said "one step at a time!". I'd be more interested in the qualifications and skills they're looking for? What age are astronauts and where do they recruit from? How much time do you spend in space or otherwise away from your family. Are all the jobs clustered in one geographical location? Also, I think you should make the About section feel a bit more personal. You linked to your personal twitter elsewhere but not in this page.

perl4ever 6y ago
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.
- chrisseaton 6y ago
  Huh interesting. You could have a website where for each job people want you find someone who failed at each point along the way to getting it, so you can know what to avoid doing yourself.
- craftinator 6y ago
  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 it just didn't work out.

rkho 6y ago

Love the idea! I read through VC Associate and had a couple ideas: - A list of industry-specific terminology used in the interview at the top. I was unfamiliar with the concept of financial modeling, would have been nice to have a quick definition from the interviewee's own words. - The ability for readers to ask followup questions (without the guarantee that they be answered) and/or a way to contact the interviewee directly in an anonymous way (definitely way beyond MVP, but it's fun to think about)

WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago

I added my own.

starpilot 6y ago

The "interviews" seem to be scraped from Reddit AMAs, take the veterinarian one: https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/veterinarian 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_veterinarian_ama/c2hgalx/ 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...

shsachdev 6y ago
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 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 :)
- taylortrusty 6y ago
  Then the proper way to do this is list the sources at the bottom of each.
- staz 6y ago
  You could at least put some attribution

bias_var 6y ago

This is awesome. I was thinking about something similar. There is currently nothing right now which tells you about the day-to-day workings of several professions. Watching this space.

cryptozeus 6y ago

Good effort. How do I know these are valid entries ?

jocko66 6y ago
Rolling out non-anonymous interviews this week. Stay tuned :)

onion2k 6y ago

The 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.

kevindeasis 6y ago

can you please add this to your css, i cant see all the other career fair posts .job_list { overflow-y: scroll; }

thomas-schulz 6y ago

Check out careerfairy.io - the interactive version of careerfair.io :-)

deleted 6y ago

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iwangulenko 6y ago

Tech 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.

NotJustSerafim 6y ago

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.

JoeDaDude 6y ago

Do 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.

throwaway_78321 6y ago

Great 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.

phekunde 6y ago

Damn! 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!

evanmaynard1 6y ago

Cool idea: how are you planning to handle multiple view points or postings for the same job type?