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

161 points| shsachdev | 5 years ago |careerfair.io | reply

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[+] bko|5 years ago|reply
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|5 years ago|reply
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.
[+] quickthrower2|5 years ago|reply
Anecdotes I think is the word you were looking for
[+] Closi|5 years ago|reply
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

I suspect if I put this in the job name it might actually run the javascript when anyone visits the homepage?

[+] shsachdev|5 years ago|reply
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!
[+] starpilot|5 years ago|reply
The "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...

[+] shsachdev|5 years ago|reply
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 :)

[+] iwangulenko|5 years ago|reply
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.

[+] taylortrusty|5 years ago|reply
Love this idea. Found myself reading several of the interviews. Only feedback is I wish they were longer, more detailed.
[+] shsachdev|5 years ago|reply
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.

[+] rkho|5 years ago|reply
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)

[+] throwaway_78321|5 years ago|reply
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.
[+] NotJustSerafim|5 years ago|reply
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|5 years ago|reply
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.
[+] bias_var|5 years ago|reply
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.
[+] onion2k|5 years ago|reply
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.
[+] phekunde|5 years ago|reply
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|5 years ago|reply
Cool idea: how are you planning to handle multiple view points or postings for the same job type?
[+] thomas-schulz|5 years ago|reply
Check out careerfairy.io - the interactive version of careerfair.io :-)
[+] saadalem|5 years ago|reply
I love the overall idea but the design on mobile is messy !
[+] shsachdev|5 years ago|reply
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.
[+] cryptozeus|5 years ago|reply
Good effort. How do I know these are valid entries ?
[+] jocko66|5 years ago|reply
Rolling out non-anonymous interviews this week. Stay tuned :)
[+] kevindeasis|5 years ago|reply
can you please add this to your css, i cant see all the other career fair posts

.job_list {

overflow-y: scroll; }