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cv-pls job-search advice on a specific choice Confused about my career. Need Guidance‭ - TheHungryCoder‭ 2020-01-26 12:56:08Z

MyWrathAcademia

4:24 PM

@motosubatsu I wonder if you could give me advice on how to answer a question for an interview for an internship opportunity. One of the questions will be about my desires for the future. @Hosch250 gave me good advice. His suggestion was along the lines of:

Jan 23 at 16:14, by Hosch250

Talk about where you want your career to go. Talk about your personal goals a bit--want to bring your 12min mile to a 10min mile? That helps put a person behind the face.

MyWrathAcademia

5:05 PM

@Hosch250 So i wanted to talk about how I want to become a full stack developer because I enjoy learning and working with new technologies. Scratch that, I think the better answer to the question of why I want to become a full stack developer at their company is that I want to learn software architectural skills and my current track of teaching my self web development wasn't giving me a path to grow to being a developer.

@Hosch250 From what I was shown of your project I know that I can learn those architectural skills at your company. And eventually I want to be the older developer with experience that could successfully build a software system for your company. (Optionally adding that: instead of just staying as a coder that would always need someone more experienced to guide the project to success.).

@Hosch250 How does that reason sound? Is "successfully build a software system for your company" better than saying "successfully build a software system for a company"?

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7:01 PM

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