Ben

Final Interview Questions

Demographics

1. Gender: Male

2. Age: 32

3. Experience: 1.5 years

4. Profession: freelancer/web developer

5. Level of Formal Edu: Bachelor's degree in Business

6. Type of Professional Education: 1 semester left for CS degree

7. Soft skillset and level: *Very strong and personable.

8. Hard skillset and level: *web dev languages, html, css, Js, C#, .NET

9. Tech Saaviness: *Very strong. *Early adopter. *Arduino, drones, machine learning

Key Behavior Questions

1. What do you expect from a job portal?

• Real jobs with serious offers.

1. How do you search for jobs? *Online job boards and peer to peer networking
2. What gets you excited about a potential job? What turns you off?

• Excited: matching tech stack.
• Large tech company
• Turn off: confusing tech stack. *When the posting clearly shows a lack of understanding of the industry.
  • i.e., 10 years of React experience required

1. Which method do you used the most/least? why?

• Peer to peer networking.
  • Best feedback
  • reliable
  • They know who he is already and can vouch for him
  • has many friends and family

Needs & Frustrations

1. What helps you decide to respond to a job posting?

• Easy to apply.
• If it is a large company. He is looking for mentorship.

1. What is most frustrating about searching for jobs online?

• Job boards have slow turn around.
• No details of benefits.
• Ambiguous postings. No details. Or contradictions.
  • Junior dev wanted. 4 years experience required.
  • Full-stack developer wanted. No info on tech stack.
• When the posting seems insincere. It feels like the company is just fishing to get as many people as possible to submit a resume so that they can choose from a larger pool.
• Not clearly laid out what a junior developer is. 6 months of learning? 2 years of experience. (may not belong here. 1.What's your biggest fear about the job search phase?
• wasting time with poor leads
• not getting a job for many months. (friend of his has been looking for 8 months now)
• Not getting any callbacks or promises.
• Being under-paid.

Goals

1. What kind of job are you/would you be looking for now?

• Good pay (wife not working and 1 daughter who is 3y/o)
• Good insurance / benefits
• Job with a good mentorship program.
• Good training resources.
  • In house training.
  • Monetary compensation for educational spending. (books, online courses)
  • Send employees to training courses or conventions.

1. What would you want a job portal/board to do, ideally?

• Get jobs that match his profile.
  • Junior developer
  • 2 years experience

1. What kind of information are you expecting from a job posting? Before you click on it? On the job post page?

• position title
• remote or onsite
• contract?
• recruiter or company

1. What kind of information would help you improve your chances of finding the right job?

• If they will hire junior devs
• Benefits
• Salary