A soul-crushing job search
Heather Reid shares her difficult job search journey and how she overcame self-doubt and kept trying until she found the perfect job. Although Heather had been active in the testing community for over a decade, when she was searching for her newest role, she heard she wasn’t a tester and that she had been gone too long gone. We also talk about: - bad interview experiences - why she was seen as "too long gone" in testing - how to handle job rejections - how she proved everyone that rejected her during job interviews wrong - advice for job seekers and people interviewing in tech.
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Show Notes
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Episode Resources:
Heather's Twitter
Heather's job search blog post
Heather's Blog
About Heather Reid
Heather Reid is a Test Engineer at Glofox. Before that she was the community boss for Ministry of Testing, making sure that the testing community had everything to be successful. Before that, she was a software tester at Exploristics and at Moola.
Episode Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:00 What does a test community boss do?
06:28 Can we forget our skills?
08:00 Attending workshops
09:00 4-hour interview experience
10:00 Hurtful rejections pile up
12:10 Can't ask questions in an interview
14:00 A good interview experience
19:00 A technical test
23:00 Different backgrounds and perspectives
26:10 Arguing during an interview
30:50 Improving the state of testing 33:50 Adding accessibility 40:00 Career advice for job seekers