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Nick Abouzeid

MLH Career Fest - Find amazing tech talent from the comfort of your home.

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MLH Career Fest saves you time, money, and airline miles in your search for great tech interns and new grads. Our algorithm matches recruiters with pre-qualified hackers for 5-minute video chats to get you that same fuzzy feeling you get from meeting in person

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Jonathan Gottfried
Maker
Hi everyone! Makers of MLH Career Fest here 👋 Every year, we work with more than 100,000 technical students around the world through our on-campus events like hackathons and workshops. Their lives have been thrown through a loop by COVID-19. They’re now at home, trying to take online courses for the first time, missing important events like their college graduation. And yet, in a few months these students are still expected to go out into the world and begin their post-college careers! On-campus events are a super important part of this process, as they give students an opportunity to make a personal connection with a recruiter beyond what a resume can showcase. We built MLH Career Fest to give them a virtual opportunity to be matched up with awesome employers for 5 minute video chats that can give them that same warm fuzzy feeling that they get from a great in-person conversation. We’re even donating all of the recruiter-funded proceeds to the CDP COVID-19 Response Fund. # How It Works 1. You sign up and fill out a profile. 2. MLH Career Fest runs you through our matching algorithm to pair up recruiters and candidates. 3. You log on for your scheduled time slot and let the magic happen! 4. At the end, everyone gets a match digest so they can follow up and continue the hiring process. 
Happy hacking! Looking forward to hearing your feedback. Jon, Swift, and Nick @jonmarkgo, @swiftalphaone, @yaynickq
Snigdha Roy
Such a smooth way to transition, nice work y'all! :D
Jonathan Gottfried
Maker
@snigdhar0y Thanks! Definitely been a labor of love to adjust on short notice and find a way to keep empowering hackers
Paul Horton
This seems like a fantastic opportunity for hackers looking to get their start in the tech world! Are we able to send this out to students yet? I'd be super excited to forward this to last year's sunhacks attendees.
Jonathan Gottfried
Maker
@paul_horton Yeah, it's live for signups now but we'll be hosting the first round of scheduled chats during the first week of April
Akash Singh
We couldn't have expected a better initiative and much needed hack for current collegiate hackers than MLH Career Fest. Especially for the ones graduating soon. It is on point. It will help programmers by not only providing the opportunity to meet recruiters but also save time, cost efficient option and inspire to invent similar hacks! Love it! Filling out the typeform now!
Swift
Maker
@akisingh09 thanks for the feedback! Hackathons have already started changing the way that students find jobs. We're hoping we can push things even further and make a big impact right now by moving the best parts of that experience online!
Akash Singh
@swiftalphaone That's awesome! Attending hackathons had a major impact on my academic and skillset growth. I can already see this initiative being a huge success. Kudos :)
Gene Chorba
This is really neat. Glad to see MLH do something like this.
Jonathan Gottfried
Maker
@gene_chorba Thanks! We felt like it was really important to be able to bring some stability to hackers in this crazy time
Vivank Sharma
Awesome opportunity for all the tech grads. Will make sure to forward to all the hackers of HackOff.
Nick Quinlan
Maker
@vivanks Thanks! We're really excited to get this out to the whole MLH network.
David Quach
This sounds fantastic! It is a great way for hackers to get in contact with recruiters and even display more about themselves than just their resumes. I'm excited for this!
Swift
Maker
@david_quach Thanks! Hackers tell us all the time that they love the personal interactions with recruiters & engineers at hackathons. We're hoping that we can help recreate a bit of that magic for thousands of people in our community who need it!
Jarod Stewart
This is a great idea! Great work MLH team! :D
Nick Quinlan
Maker
@stewartjarod Thanks Jarod! Really appreciate it!
Aaron Clark
This is a super efficient response to our current times by a team that's capable of helping our 2020 grads and interns. And the proceeds benefitting the CDP COVID-19 Response Fund is a great use of funds. Props!
Jonathan Gottfried
Maker
@ac6567 Thanks aaron, I appreciate the kind words!
Julian Ramirez
Love the idea! We have to keep moving forward in the face of COVID-19
Jonathan Gottfried
Maker
@julianr Yeah, I definitely know that it's anxiety inducing to figure out career path with everything going on - trying to help folks move forward
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