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by mkoryak 1870 days ago
It is difficult to write a strong referral for someone you do not know.
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Bachelor + master

2 years of software engineering experience

2 years of teaching experience

Education:

Bachelor information science

Bachelor psychology

Master game studies

Research master computer science

(and tons of failed studies, extracurricular courses, student boards and jobs)

Notable fun achievements:

Graduated from first bachelor within 2 years.

Published my homework as a paper to a conference and it got accepted (with a lot of help from my teacher, this was no solo effort).

Hobbies:

Music (I think about it obsessively since I was 4, not great in making it though, I do beatbox okay-ish)

Mindfulness (not meditating, simply applying it)

Reading Hacker News (this is a legit hobby :P)

Hanging out with friends and talking about all kinds of things

I used to be the kind of person to want to know everything about the world and that's also how I studied. I gave up on that recently though.

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Now you know me a bit better, albeit on paper, it's something ;-)

There are questions in a form that I'd fill out like: how well I know this person, how well I know their work, etc.

For you, I would need to answer "don't know" for all of these.

Having a strong github would go a long way in making it possible to answer one of those with with something other than don't know.

Basically you need something more tangible than a resume for a stranger to go out on a limb for you.