Show, don’t tell – a new professional network, your Manual of Me, and behavioral interviews

Read.cv’s front page – a show, don’t tell professional network.

• Professional Networking – Read.cv feels like a mashup of Tumblr and LinkedIn, with a dash of Threads. It’s a networking platform focused on beautiful profiles and an honest, open approach to showing company values. It seems to be attracting small companies and small teams, and they’re also using it to post jobs. Whether you’re looking for a new position or want a different networking experience, it’s worth joining!
• Leadership – Do you know how your competitors are pricing their SaaS products? PriceLevel provides real pricing data for hundreds of software vendors, and you can submit requests to add more. It’s a great market research tool. Keep it handy for vendor evaluation as well.
• Work Culture – “Manual of Me” is a personal user manual – “a document which helps others understand how they can work best with you.” Companies, especially remote and async with distributed teams, benefit enormously from implementing these. We actively use them in our companies and clients’.
• Job Interviews – The behavioral interview is a standard part of most modern interview processes. While it’s common to practice/study for “hard skill” interviews, soft skills don’t get as much love. This YouTube video explores the key parts of a behavioral interview (in the context of a MAANG technical job) and how to genuinely approach them. The top comment says it best:
  Last year: watched this video to prepare for interviews.
  Now: watching this video to learn how to conduct interviews.
  That’s how useful this video is
• Marketing – Have you ever heard of a “lose-your-job free trial”? Bloomberg offers one for its terminal (a financial software suite for Wall Street traders). If a customer loses their job, they can request free access for several months. It’s a genius move—by prioritizing a direct relationship with customers, Bloomberg makes it easy for them to continue their paid plan across companies.
• Workforce – In the tech industry, are people important or not? A former engineering manager looks honestly at reckless firing, tech entitlement, and how companies and tech workers can move away from the extremes we’re currently seeing.
• Leadership – Are you ambitiously moving forward but struggling to understand or predict your successes? Check out this Big Think series on Hindsight, where philosophers, AI researchers, authors, and leaders discuss the meaning of hindsight: its limitations, how it affects our psychology, and how it can be used to look forward.
• Design – Public.work is a new, beautiful search tool to find public domain imagery. Last month, we included a massive discovery, the library of congress’s digital “free to use and reuse collection”. We think it is worth mentioning again, but this time with a way more pleasant way to explore.
• Design – There’s a new competitor to Pinterest, Cosmos.so, focusing on creatives. Check out their interactive manifesto or read a graphic designer’s review (e.g., you can search by color using HEX codes). Cosmos made the Public.work site above, and we suspect they did so to have a cohesive, similar aesthetic quality to images “uploaded” at launch. Nice of them to make it publicly available!