#posit I’m still considering whether to attend posit conference 2024. I’d like to attend the career fair to look for data science related jobs, meanwhile listening some talks. But the ticket is still expensive even for the students, I applied for Opportunity Scholarships but haven’t got any replies from @Posit till now. I doubt is it worthwhile to spend $1198 on a 3-day conference mainly for the career fair? Can anyone have some experiences of posit give some advice? Really appreciate it @rstats
In the replies, they also mentioned @yihui , a very famous software engineer worked for RStudio but got laid off recently, he is also on mastodon. I was also very shocked when I first heard this news.
Anyway, sum them up, it seems a great opportunity for networking, but not for job-seeking only
@ai4blobcat@Posit@rstats I haven't been in such conference. But as a company sponsored conference I think most of the events will be about Posit products. I will attend the #useR2024 conference instead for similar reasons (but it is longer and globally the price will be slightly higher). I too hope it pays off in the long run.
@Lluis_Revilla@ai4blobcat@Posit@rstats Posit is certainly very visible throughout the conf, but we aim to fill the agenda with high quality and diverse talks with broad appeal to data scientists of all backgrounds and levels. This year’s talk schedule will be release soon but in the meantime you can peruse all talks from past confs on our YouTube page:
@grrrck@ai4blobcat Thanks Garrick, the materials are great and I use them to know the latest updates. But in the years I've been following the conference few have been about finding a job or given by recruiters.
@ai4blobcat oh yeah, I see. Sorry I saw your (@Lluis_Revilla) post first and missed the job-seeking angle. We do have lots of activities that encourage networking, but I don’t think we’ve done anything specifically for people looking for a job. It’s worth considering! I’ll pass this along to the planning committee.
@Posit@rstats zero responses after 2 hours, looks like academic folks on mastodon are mostly inactive, maybe I should try asking on Twitter, reddit, or posit forum instead
@ai4blobcat@Posit@rstats hope so too! Fwiw although I haven’t been to posit I also think $1,200 is a lot to spend of your own money for a career fair. Hopefully you can get some of that cost defrayed somehow!
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