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> Once students graduate from Capstone, they are expected to spend 40 hours a week Monday through Friday searching for a software engineering career. Weekly check ins are mandatory.

I don't think I could handle a 9-5 job, let alone 8 hours a day applying to jobs under penalty of unspecified legal consequences.

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It's rarely 8 hours a day "applying to jobs". This is similar to an employer saying "you should work 40 hours/week". In that 40 hours are lots of varied activity, including breaks and lunch and any other activity that will allow you to succeed.

The idea is that we want to set expectation that people should focus on searching for a job and not, say, go on vacation. The wording here also is far more severe than reality only because we want serious participants.

Huh—I did this program (I didn’t know the founder posted here, just browsing) and I had no idea weekly check-ins were mandatory. For serious (but not fanatic) participants it is, of course, a no-brainer to check in at least that often. Just found that line interesting and wanted to share.

Hey Adam! This is the weekly check-ins during your job hunt we did. I guess your job hunt duration was too short, so maybe you didn't do too much of this :)

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