Show HN: Kareer Day – Learn About Jobs by People Who've Done Them

A job search today is like having to arrange a lot of blind dates, with your focus at each being on trying to convince them you’re the best thing for them on the spot — that they should pick you. And if they agree, you then commit to a "long-term relationship" with them right away. But if you leave before a year is up, people will often think less of you, and it may harm your ability to date after.

You’re never really taught how to pick the right “date,” nor provided adequate resources to help you figure out who might be a good fit for you.

And yet, if your best friend told you they were going to jump into a serious relationship with someone (this time in the real sense) — or heaven forbid marrying them — right after meeting them, you'd probably caution them otherwise.

We want to help people pick a job (and career) that fits them, one they may actually get to know better (and like) before having to go all-in on date three. Interviews are often a bad environment to fully learn about a job because the interviewee is primarily there to sell themselves, they may not want to ask too probing of questions about the job as that may turn off the interviewer, the interviewer may not have all the answers to your questions (perhaps they've never done the job you're interviewing for), and interviews are usually too short to really understand a role.

We want to improve that process. We're going to do that by providing people with an opportunity to learn directly from those who've done the jobs, who've worked in the careers, in a more neutral way, outside of interviews. These are detailed, first-hand accounts (reviews) that will better educate them on what a job truly entails. Our hope is that it allows people to ride shotgun as if they're on a job shadow, without actually having to get in the car.

That's a great resource for high schoolers who are trying to find a career path. I have also seen something similar to this at Khanacademy - their "meet the professional" series and also some video interviews on different careers [1].

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/career-cont...

> Interesting fact: Diet Coke is many flight attendants least favorite drink to pour because the fizz takes forever to go down. They can pour three drinks for everyone one Diet Coke.

TIL ;)

This is great! Thanks!

I've had a related idea a while back - I wish there were walkthroughs for university fields of study. Like a class that discusses the tables of contents (not so much the actual contents!) of courses of other fields at a level that would be understandable to prospective students of the field.

This would reduce unknown unknowns.

As someone who has studied CS, at times it would've actually been useful to know what areas electrical engineers and mechanical engineers are studying, and what the major topics in each course are. Be it to work closely with people who did study those fields, find the right people in the first place or possibly even as a seed to be able to learn just enough of their field to help myself.

Of course for such technical fields I can read the course descriptions myself and make educated (hah!) guesses, but if I turn to some unrelated fields (e.g. veterinary studies) out of sheer curiosity I'm lost.

Interesting idea! The name is a little hard to take seriously with the misspelling.

Some of the reviews are very detailed with expected salary ranges and career progressions, and others are really sparse- the Sales Engineer for example, or the Flight Nurse which is basically an anecdote that tells you nothing about the field, how to get into it or what it's like. I'd have a template or guidelines for your reviewers, and reject anything that doesn't match the quality of, for example, the Investment Banking VP or the Crane Operator.

I think the formats should be consistent. The Flight Attendant one was written like a post..then the Interior Designer one was a Q&A with a designer.

This is a cool idea and I dig that you're focusing on content. One thing I noticed after clicking through a few was some are far better than others. The flight attendant provides awesome details and pros/cons. Whereas the F1 performance engineer is a single paragraph with nothing more than what the title means.

Nice idea. Good luck on seeing it grow out. Do you have a revenue model long term?

Right off the bat, I think you need a search box. Probably with autocomplete to the job titles. I was a bit frustrated trying to click through to the various titles, and I could not find the search box.

This is a cool idea!

One thing that sticks out to me is once you get past the overview of what a job entails, you'll probably have a lot of specific questions where Q&A or mentorship with someone that's done the job might be a better fit than a pull-only model.

A unionized crane operator gets 200k annually? Wow!!

https://www.kareerday.com/reviews/crane-operator

Similar site: https://jobshadow.com/complete-list-of-interviews/

These responses are just copied off reddit verbatim without validation. I've seen the flight nurse and a couple of others before.

Great idea! If there was a way to tell apart categories with no content in them it would save many clicks.

Really nice idea! Congrats!