[Ground-station] University work, VT Advisory Board Spring Meeting, call for comments

[Michelle Thompson]

Thank you all for the feedback and ideas.

This is very helpful!

With some work, we can improve this part of what we do.

-Michelle W5NYV




On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:20 PM John R. Frank via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

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>> Internships in space communications are desirable. ... Directly solicit
>> to the students for internships, outside of the university...
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> I want to second Bruce's comment here and add that making the recruiting
> process competitive though interviews can help *attract* great interns.
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> While advertising and conducting interviews takes effort, the big benefit
> is direct one-on-one contact in video calls with students.  In a 20 minute
> call, you can spend 10 minutes on technical questions to get a basis for
> comparing candidates, and 10 minutes discussing how awesome it'll be to
> work on the project.
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> Designing such an interview process is also fun in its own way.
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> John
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> John R. Frank
> N9WLY
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