Show HN: A career-aware course recommendation engine(courseforward.com)
courseforward.com
Show HN: A career-aware course recommendation engine
http://courseforward.com
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This is cool but...you've got courses listed as free but when I go to the course they're asking for money (https://www.udemy.com/introduction-to-bootstrap-3/?affcode=E...)
Thanks for catching this. We are constantly scraping like 30 course providers on a weekly basis. A lot of Udemy courses start out free to attract attention, then start charging. I'll get this fixed!
This is a very cool idea. Execution is good as well.
Will definitely use this to learn web dev. Thank you!
Looks pretty solid
You guys need to really work on a couple things with this. First, are the job salaries pulled based on geographic location, or overall? That makes a huge difference.
Second, once I sign in through linkedin, I have no idea what to do next. You've successfully gotten me to understand that my profile is 25% complete, but the helpful introduction and flow towards initial registration is now nowhere to be found. I need some text here to show me what to do. "Pick a career path" or something similar would even be helpful.
I then have to click on the jobs in the field I choose, but nothing tells me I need to do that either. A CTA there would be really helpful.
So, I chose my job and entered my skills. Then, when I wanted to go back, I figured out how to do that, but afterwards I was back to 25% complete; so now I have a different idea of what the 25% stands for.
This is a really awesome idea, and could be really successful, but you've got to give the user some guidance since the UX isn't standard.
Second, once I sign in through linkedin, I have no idea what to do next. You've successfully gotten me to understand that my profile is 25% complete, but the helpful introduction and flow towards initial registration is now nowhere to be found. I need some text here to show me what to do. "Pick a career path" or something similar would even be helpful.
I then have to click on the jobs in the field I choose, but nothing tells me I need to do that either. A CTA there would be really helpful.
So, I chose my job and entered my skills. Then, when I wanted to go back, I figured out how to do that, but afterwards I was back to 25% complete; so now I have a different idea of what the 25% stands for.
This is a really awesome idea, and could be really successful, but you've got to give the user some guidance since the UX isn't standard.
Thanks for your feedback! I just pushed a few changes to address some of these UX shortcomings. I plan to persist things at every step of the account creation wizard. Hopefully that will reduce astonishment.
The job salaries are US-wide median. Many computer science and data science jobs are in large costal cities where the cost of living is higher, so these salary figures are more in line with what you'd get in SF or NY.
The job salaries are US-wide median. Many computer science and data science jobs are in large costal cities where the cost of living is higher, so these salary figures are more in line with what you'd get in SF or NY.
Hey, you guys are about 2 blocks from my apartment it seems like; if you need someone to beta things out or give a hand with something, let me know; my email is my HN logon @gmail.
This is way better, thanks!
Notably missing, IM(NS)HO, are "management", "senior management", "corporate strategy", "executive management", etc. Also missing are "operations", "operations management", "service management", "project management", etc.
FYI, I chose "marketing" because product management and its service equivalent (defining and validating products and services, planning roadmaps, and working with marketing communications and sales support, etc.) were likely to be the closest to where I am and where I am heading (corporate strategy, executive management, etc.).
BUT! I think the biggest missing category was "QA": Perhaps others would see such a thing, but since I saw "mobile", "design", and a number of other areas that have little to no relevance, I was surprised to see neither QA (related to development, design, and mobile) nor security nor identity management work (basically what I have spent the last 25+ years doing).