My thoughts on Lambda School’s career service/coaching offerings have evolved from, “This is a great help” to “Wow people would be completely screwed without this.” Crazy there’s no one that offers something like it as a service. So many small tweaks that make a HUGE difference.
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I think about this a LOT. For example, had an applicant use all caps. I don't think anyone would ever hire an applicant who used all caps. But this tiny miscue is so instantly fixable with the tiniest helpful nudge.
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Also, the unintended silent signaling of email. eg. how using a Gmail or Yahoo or AOL email address can cause you to be perceived in different ways. At another level, the signal of owning firstname@startupname.com vs firstname[dot]lastname@startupname.com
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I think that's the most critical difference. i.e. first@{startup}.com signals key role
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Or an early-ish founder/employee
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Signaling not worth the recruiter and offshore dev shop spam I’m never doing firstname@ again
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It’s a huge issue for first gen kids in the Ivy League. Part of the value of the “education” is learning those skills.
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These “skills” are often arbitrary and highly raced and gendered in addition to being class markers.
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Things like wearing an undershirt (working class marker), not matching belt color to shoes, or eating all of your food at a business dinner can give away your economic class origins. Source: poor kid who went to ivy.
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Goodness, am I not supposed to eat all my food at a dinner??
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this is pervasive in all elite professions, in different ways https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/02/city-of-london-dress-code-brown-shoes-finance … (I changed my accent when I went to boarding school and realised for the first time how much this particular class marker could hold me back)
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@AustenAllred. I’m here whenever your students are ready to learn how to break into Product Management, or how to work well with product managers, designers, and other supporting functions. This is a good thing you’re doing.

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@AustenAllred -@jigripokri has my full endorsement.
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Others can't do this because they don't have a remote campus. They need their physical classrooms for the next cohort. They're not comfortable with remote and haven't created that culture with their students.
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Think even some folks in the Ivy Leagues don’t know the right signals. More about SES than college.
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I'm only now starting to think deeply about what people expect(ed) of me as a Eastern European immigrant and the significant +s it's brought me in certain situations coupled with a particular unconscious foolhardy brand of optimism. Very weird to think about it while living it.
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Would be cool to start a business that provided advice on this to minorities as one of its outputs, not necessarily a commercial output. Difficulties I foresee are a/ my advice may not apply in the same way (diff. perceived ppl); b/ accidentally advising ppl to fit in too much.
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