202008020828 Why I want to work for a company
~~I care a lot about productivity and self improvement - one of my both immediate and long-term goals is to be more thoughtful, more efficient than the day before, or the year before. One of the big reasons I want to join XX is because I think the range of problems I’d be working on XX is not too out of my wheelhouse (roughly) but still new enough to me that I’d be growing leaps and bounds as a collaborator and engineer.
Be as genuine as possible at career fairs.~~
#update (April ’22): Now that I’ve been a software engineer for about eight months. I know that saying you care a lot about “productivity” and “self-improvement” is not the right way to start a blurb like this. Companies don’t care that you care a lot about productivity — they want to know about skills and experiences that will demonstrate that you actually are productive, rather than just want to be productive. I think saying I care a lot about efficiency and building apps and designing workflows for myself is better than what I had before. Caring a lot about self-improvement and self-reflection is good too, but that doesn’t explain why I want to work for the company. Usually the best thing I’ve seen for why I want to work for a company is a genuine sounding story where they are able to take some kind of story about the company and relate it to one of their values. AKA one of the reasons that the company exists (one of the problems that it’s trying to solve) is something that you also intrinsically care about.
uuid: 202008020828 tags: #recruiting #update