🧐 which jobs are safe in any case?
Issue #103 (27 May) – 20+ Design & UX/UI jobs; Handpicked Mixer #01; Coffee with Andreea; ideas for your summer bucket list; tips for your CV & Berlin life hacks.
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Programming note: Cofee with… is back with Andreea! That’s not a coincidence: Andreea will also be a keynote speaker at the first Handpicked Mixer, a concept event to facilitate you learning something new and meeting interesting people. Get your free tickets; we kick it off on the 4th of June! I’ll be accepting registrations on a first-come-first-serve basis. (Please only book if you can make it!)
Our 1st of June event is sold out, but if you really wanna come, mail me, we can maybe sort stuff out. See you on Saturday.
🌟 Handpicked community
📨 Submit your input here. Inspiration for all the categories on the link.
🎪 Meet — tech & other events:
🚨 Handpicked Mixer #01: Behind the Scenes - a Talent Acquisition Partner's Playbook for Passing Your Interviews | Tue, 4.6 at 18.30 | Spiced Academy
🚨 AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Learn, Connect, Explore | Wed, 12.6 or Thu, 13.6 - pick the day of your choice | Atelier Rooftop
😎 Show — Cool stuff / Shoutouts / Projects & similar:
This Reading Party (yes, you read that right!) from The Next Day Berlin is worth checking out!
Anodyne Magazine is a FLINTA* project showcasing art and lit about our health. We’re hosting a Pride picnic and reading that is open to all!
🔍 Ask — for a Service / Co-founder / Project help & similar:
we had nobody needing someone or looking for a co-founder.
Looking for the submission link? It’s below the title ⤴️
👀 Handpicked jobs
📨 Submitted by HR or readers
5️⃣ from the rotation this week: Design & UX/UI
The remaining jobs (also outside rotation) are in the Handpicked online database.
🗞 Top inspiration snippets
☕️ Coffee with Andreea Lungulescu
Andreea is one of the best community drivers in Berlin, and I loved every exchange I had with her. She is a founder of TA Crunch Berlin, one of the most active HR-related communities in the city.
The School of Life (book) - this book, though not the first book I read about development, life, you name it, literally changed my life. It also felt like a rapid set of face-slaps, for the amount of “OMG, that is so true” moments I had while reading it. The book has 4 markers for emotional health: Self-love, Candour, Candour, Communication and Trust. Go and read it.
How it Works and Reality Explained - don’t laugh; both are TikTok accounts. I know that TikTok is a bit of a doozy, but I learnt a ton from the platform. I made sure to curate my content to things that I care for and form these tiny bits of information. I then chose what topics I want to learn more about - plus I got ideas of “where to go and learn more about X, for free ideally”.
Moliets-et-Maa (a piece of heaven on Earth in France) - just go see it. Allow the ocean to do its thing, dip your fingers in the cold Atlantic, watch surfers, and, more importantly, sit there and watch the endlessness of it all. How Ocean and Sky are one. Come back and let me know if you got goosebumps or if you need to go back.
🇩🇪 Berlin & other good stuff
🌪️ Mix yourself together with us. 4th of June, 1830-21.00, Spiced Academy. Free, but only book if you can make it, please.
I wonder how proud some of these rich Nazi kids must have felt when the clip went viral. It doesn’t mean everyone there is a Nazi, but still. Disgusting. One for the history books.
🟩 If you want to see what the 24k square meters big fake grass ready to greet Euro fans looks like, check out this post on Instagram. I like it. If you enter this giveaway by Visit Berlin and win it, please let me know. 😊
🕶️ I am not sure how “ultimate” this guide from The Berliner is, but it is a good one for your bucket list of what you can do in this amazing city during summer.
🇩🇪 In 2023, 9041 people received the German passport. That’s 166 (1.9%) more than in 2022. (St. BB) For the ones still needing it, Chialunwu built this bot to help you book appointments with the immigration office of Bürgeramt. I haven’t tested it — see the instructions in Read Me section.
🙅🏻♂️ It turns out Rabbit R1 (one of the non-functional passengers on the AI hype train next to Humane AI) is built on a scam (Coffeezilla).
Career: Related. Which jobs are safe with the advent of AI? Probably face-to-face contact jobs. See the rise of manicurists and Pedicurists since 2000. Fascinating! (The Manicure Economy by Jon Hilsenrath via Adam Tooze). Amongst the 30 occupations that didn’t have their own category (on the link) back in 2000, number one are Software developers and number two, unbelievably, Project Management Specialists.
Career: Someone shared Ali Abdaal’s Entrepreneurship Masterclass podcast with me (Youtube link), and I am still thinking, “ok, holy shit, so good I listened to this.” It completely changed my mind on how to think about business. And I still have a lot to learn.
Career: Really good tips on your CV by Adam Karpiak, a guy who sells CV tips for a living. (LinkedIn)
Last week, I ran the cover letter (Yay, Nay, It depends, Don’t apply if mandatory) survey on all my channels, except on ZDF and collected over 350 responses. I am surprised by the outcome: just above 50% of you are Team Nay or don’t even apply if cover letters are required. 😳
Timeless: If you ever wondered where direct trains get you from Berlin Hbf or any other place in Europ, here is direkt.bahn.guru project.
Reddit choice of the week are these Berlin life hacks you should know. I like the “if a Döner is too cheap to be true, don’t eat it” and a joking “plan 3 months ahead”.
💬 Briefly:
😔 Bad news: TikTok plans to lay off 1000 in Operations and Marketing - not clear to what extent the Berlin location is affected. (The Information)
Stats: Finally! According to KfW, the German economic output has been increasing again since the start of the year; GDP growth of 0.3% is expected for 2024 and 1.2% for 202. Recession over?
We got 15.965 new apartments in Berlin in 2023. That’s 7.8% less than in 2024.
Doctolib acquired Berlin-based Aaron.ai, an AI-based phone assistant that answers the phone. (Deutsche Startups)
Tesla got approval to expand their Grünheide factory after they revised their plans. Activists are still camping close to the factory. (RBB, 🇩🇪)
Bafin fined N26 with €9.2M because of anti-money laundering violations. (MM, 🇩🇪)
Picnic plans to compete with HelloFresh by providing meal kits to the “family” target group. (FAZ, 🇩🇪)
Flix is reportedly (Handelsblatt) postponing their IPO, which was supposed to happen in Q2.
💸 Recently funded in Berlin & Germany
Captain T Cell | Berlin | Develops T-cell therapies against tumors | €8.5M Seed | No careers.
DeepL | Cologne | AI-powered translation services | $300M | Careers.
Codesphere | Karlsruhe | Cloud application development platform for developers | €16.5M | Careers.
apoQlar | Hamburg | Uses VR and MR for medical data visualization | €10M Series A | Careers.
reev | Munich | Software for managing EV charging infrastructure | €10M Series A | Careers.
😅 Meanwhile
ChatGPT plays rock paper scissors
✌️ Handpicked essentials and a treat:
- Signing a new employment contract in Germany? Read this before.
- Don’t make these mistakes with your side hustle!
- Berlin Salary Trends Reports: How do you compare?
- ❓Surprise treat for the curious
- The best questions to ask at a job interview
- Write it down now! Or why you should journal at work?
- What do hiring managers look for in CVs?
- Story of Handpicked Berlin in a podcast
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