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Re:Ask HN: Validate my idea - find a mentor to improve your ... by KiwiCoder on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @08:09AM (#6320408)
University services tend to be, uh, academic.

A differentiator would be the quality of advice offered, and the fact that the mentors would also be actual hiring managers.

You might be right, though I still think it's worth doing a MVP or this 'pretotype' idea.

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Re:Ask HN: Validate my idea - find a mentor to improve your ... by ig1 on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @08:20AM (#6320440)
Universities often offer CV/interview practice sessions run by the recruitment team at major firms.
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Re:Ask HN: Validate my idea - find a mentor to improve your ... by KiwiCoder on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @08:24AM (#6320464)
Recruitment teams are, in my experience, and I'm not trying to be funny, uniquely unqualified to offer this kind of advice EXCEPT as a how-to guide for getting through their own filters so you can speak to the hiring manager.
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Re:Ask HN: Validate my idea - find a mentor to improve your ... by ig1 on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @08:38AM (#6320521)
When I helped run the grad recruitment team at Bloomberg, we definitely sent developers involved in hiring to help students improve their CVs, and we were far from the only company doing it.
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