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Where is the best place to find freelance UX/UI designers?
Historically companies I've been at have had someone on staff, but we're a small startup and looking to get some UX/UI support. All of my googling has lead me to "gig" websites like Upwork or...
Historically companies I've been at have had someone on staff, but we're a small startup and looking to get some UX/UI support. All of my googling has lead me to "gig" websites like Upwork or Fiver and talking to friends in industry (granted salaried UX/UI folks) have lead me to Linkedin or Indeed. Neither feels like the right place for what we're looking for. Does anyone have an suggestions for finding freelance designers we could work with iteratively? Thanks!
Context: Our company is rolling our a new platform out to beta users and are looking to refine some of our platform's interface. Mainly we're hoping to polish up some of the more amateur design elements across the platform and get help designing layout for tools/data presentation. We have done a good amount customer research on what folks are looking for, will be getting active feedback after pushing the changes, and are hoping to iterate with said feedback.
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Job boards are still rife with 'ghost jobs'. What's the point?
32 votes -
Europe faces 'competitiveness crisis' as US widens [economic] productivity gap
9 votes -
Why tech job interviews became such a nightmare
19 votes -
Diversity in the skies: US FAA’s controversial shift in air traffic controller hiring
17 votes -
Service jobs now require bizarre personality test from AI company - 404 Media investigation of Reddit post trend
43 votes -
I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take this bizarre personality test
40 votes -
Apple reaches $25M settlement with the DOJ for discriminating against US residents during hiring
27 votes -
Ontario to ban Canadian work experience requirement in job postings
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70% of US workers lie on resumes, new study shows
54 votes -
Men took over a job fair intended for women and nonbinary tech workers
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NFL lawsuit bombshell: 'If the Black players don’t like it here, they should go back to Africa and see how bad it is'
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Some small towns in America are disbanding police forces, citing hiring woes
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Is understaffing a new norm?
I'm asking this as a genuine question, not as a hot take. Where I'm coming from: My husband and I went to dinner the other night -- apologies from the waitress on being shortstaffed. A sign on a...
I'm asking this as a genuine question, not as a hot take.
Where I'm coming from:
My husband and I went to dinner the other night -- apologies from the waitress on being shortstaffed. A sign on a local store asks for patience with the lack of staff. The people staffing order pickup at a nearby department store aren't enough to keep up with orders. At my most recent doctor's appointment I spent almost 45 minutes in the exam room waiting to be seen (for an appointment I had to make over a year ago). A few hours after the appointment I went to pick up a prescription, and it hadn't even begun to be processed yet. There was only one cashier working, and she was having to jump between the in-person line and the drive-thru lane. At my job we don't have enough substitute teachers, so we're dependent on regular teachers covering classes during their "prep" periods.
This is merely a recent snapshot from my own life that I'm using as a sort of representative sample, but it feels like something that's been building for a while -- like something that was going to be temporary due to COVID but has stuck around and is now just what we're supposed to get used to. I remember that I used to keep thinking that understaffing would eventually go away over time, but it seems like it's just standard practice now?
Is this something specific to my experiences or my local area (I'm in the US, for context)? Are other people seeing the same thing?
Assuming it isn't just me, is there anything out there besides anecdotes that addresses this phenomenon? I don't want to lean solely on gut reactions, but I also can't deny that nearly every business I go to seems visibly short-staffed all of the time.
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As employers expand artificial intelligence in hiring, few states in the USA have rules
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Is a degree worth it?
29 votes -
Bosses dislike work-from-home but suspect they’re stuck with it
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Abortion laws are driving academics out of some US states—and keeping others from coming
29 votes -
America's first law regulating AI bias in hiring takes effect this week
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Headteachers warn UK facing ‘dangerous’ teacher shortage as recruitment crisis deepens
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Why are US red states hiring so much faster than blue states?
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Job listings abound, but many are fake
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Anyone ever get an international job?
First off, fuck job applications. It's an awful and tedious charade. Creating accounts on hundreds of websites for the resume parser to not work and have to manually upload that all again, to then...
First off, fuck job applications. It's an awful and tedious charade. Creating accounts on hundreds of websites for the resume parser to not work and have to manually upload that all again, to then write a cover letter that's skimmed at best, for a word to be missing from the resume which their detection tech passes before you're given a real shot.
But regardless that's not why I'm here. I'm in the process of applying to jobs, but for the first time I'm applying to jobs internationally (I'm US based). Have any of y'all applied for and received jobs abroad? What was successful and what wasn't? I'm primarily looking into pharmaceutical research or pharmacovigilance/drug safety because that's where English language jobs are in my area of study, but hope to eventually become fluent enough in a different language so I can move back into infection prevention or disease surveillance.
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Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Unions might not be the tech giant’s biggest labor threat.
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Microsoft to curb use of non-competes, drop NDAs from worker settlements, disclose salary ranges, launch civil rights audit
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What are your thoughts on using a website/blog as a resume?
Like the title says, I'm curious if anyone has experience encountering digital resumes. Whether you're an employer or you've used a digital resume yourself how well did it work? Were you more...
Like the title says, I'm curious if anyone has experience encountering digital resumes. Whether you're an employer or you've used a digital resume yourself how well did it work? Were you more likely to hire a candidate because they had a well-rounded website that showed off their skills or was it an immediate discard because it didn't conform to normal practices.
I'm graduating with my MS in organic chemistry this May, and I'm trying to work my way in the job market. A website/blog sounds appealing to me because I can show off data annotations and analyses from failed reactions that normally aren't discussed in papers, so I think it would be a good fit.
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Why coding interviews aren't all that bad
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Why Can't Programmers... Program?
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I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now
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Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills
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Facebook's reputation is so bad, the company must pay even more now to hire and retain talent
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"The Hiring Post" - How to hire exceptional engineers
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‘Can’t compete’: Why hiring for child care is a huge struggle
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How important is passion? It depends on your culture
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The technical interview practice gap, and how it keeps underrepresented groups out of software engineering
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Markets are not incompatible with discrimination (2014)
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Google to slow hiring for rest of 2020, CEO tells staff
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Thoughts on recruiting
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What should be on a QA tester’s résumé? Here's what the recruiters say they want to see
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No engineer has ever sued a company because of constructive post-interview feedback. So why don’t employers do it?
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We only hire the trendiest
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World first as local council uses robots to perform 'unbiased' job interviews
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Résumés are starting to look like Instagram—and sometimes even Tinder
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Do you enjoy programming outside of work?
I have found this to be a semi controversial topic. Its almost becoming a required point for getting a new job to have open source work that you can show. Some people just enjoy working on...
I have found this to be a semi controversial topic. Its almost becoming a required point for getting a new job to have open source work that you can show. Some people just enjoy working on programming side projects and others don't want to do any more after they leave the office.
Whats your opinion on this? Do you work on any side projects? Do you think its reasonable for interviewers to look for open source work when hiring?
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The Hiring Post
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The “skills gap” was a lie
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On hiring for tech positions: How do you get what you need from the HR department?
I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard a manager complain, “The HR department included ‘must have college degree’ in the job req even though I don’t care” or “They asked for 5 years of...
I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard a manager complain, “The HR department included ‘must have college degree’ in the job req even though I don’t care” or “They asked for 5 years of experience in a technology that’s only been around for 3” or “I have no idea why they rejected this candidate without even contacting me.”
Still, in many cases you don’t have a choice. If you want to hire someone, you need to deal with HR, at least to a small degree – especially if you work in a big company.
So I’m writing a feature story for technology managers, collecting real-world advice from people who learned their lessons the hard way. Here’s the questions I’d like you to answer:
• Tell me about a frustration you had with the HR department (in regard to hiring). That is, tell me a personal story of HR-gone-wrong. Because we all love schadenfreude, and that gives me an emotional example with which to begin.
• Let’s say you have a new opening in your department. In what ways do you involve HR? (That could be anything from, “give them general guidelines and let them choose the best candidates for me to interview” to “I do the search myself, and use HR only for on-boarding.”) What makes you choose that path? How much choice do you have in the matter?
• What weaknesses have you discovered in your HR department’s ability to serve the needs of a tech-focused department?
• What have you done to cope with those weaknesses? Which of those efforts worked, and which failed?
• What do you wish you knew “n” years ago about dealing with your company’s HR department?
• So that I can give the reader some context: Let me know how to refer to you in the article (at least, “Esther, a software architect at a Midwest insurance company”), and give me some idea of your company size (because the processes appropriate for a 70-person company aren’t the same for one with 7,000 employees).You don’t have to answer all those questions! I asked these to get the conversation going. Tell me as much or as little as you like.
Please don’t assume that I think HR always sucks. However, there isn’t as much to learn from “why HR is your friend.” The idea here is to help techie managers cope when HR doesn’t offer what you hoped for.
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Google tried to patent my work after a job interview
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Who's hiring? Who's looking to be hired? (November 2018)
Hacker News does this as a monthly thread (here's October 2018 for example), I'm curious to see what a Tildes equivalent might turn up.
20 votes