Huh.

Of course, the typical person turns up to an interview and wings it, especially as a fresh graduate. I hired a professional interview coach for two hours at the recommendation of a family member, and I have absolutely dominated the competition in every interview I’ve sat since then, at least on the behavioral components. It was weird, but it worked. Hell, here’s the coach, buy this for your kids when they graduate. Nothing revolutionary to an industry veteran, but this prevents young people from wasting their first few valuable interview opportunities.

This stuff feels weird. I felt like a weirdo sending those cold contacts out into the world - couldn’t I just send CVs comfortably into the void? It felt even weirder spending like $300 for an hour of interview practice, even though it was super obvious. At an Australian engineer’s salary, the interview would only have to save me one day of job searching to be a net positive. Is there any universe where a graduate wouldn’t benefit from even mediocre interview preparation?

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/performing-technical-responsibility/

@alpha Completely agree. It hurts to see people failing at this stuff. Especially because it’s not your core competency, but is incredibly important to getting a job that you care about.
See also, salary negotiations.

@alpha I got really confused here, you need to use quote marks if you’re quoting something 😅

@ratkins Ha, I did use a block quote for this, but I guess it gets lost somewhere between Akkoma and Mastodon?

@alpha Or possibly @ivory doesn’t render it properly?

(That makes sense if you’re doing it that way, I’ve been confused by a post of yours before in a similar manner 😂)

@ratkins The downside of federation is that the problem could be in a multitude of places 😆

@ratkins @alpha @ivory I think it's an Ivory issue as it renders the blockquote fine for me in Mastodon.socials Web UI.