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.
2. How do you search for jobs? *Online job boards and peer to peer networking
3. 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.)
2. 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.
2. What would you want a job portal/board to do, ideally? *Get jobs that match his profile. *Junior developer *2 years experience
3. 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
4. What kind of information would help you improve your chances of finding the right job? *If they will hire junior devs *Benefits *Salary