For the visualization, it looks like you’re missing two outcomes from the 5th interview. Assume those were rejections but that is missing from the Sankey plot.

Inverted commas are called scare quotes!

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First of all, can’t blanket all the pt together. Gotta be a way to show efficiency of the pt. Secondly, you can’t make Germany same size as Netherlands. Fit to scale

Yes, soon fry cooks will make as much at plumbers…

And we will all be moderately poor.

Sure! So I live in a non-coastal state so comp ratios can be a little different, but salary is 155k

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Sometimes it depends on what you consider an “interview”. There may be multiple stages of an application process where you are being evaluated, but you may not actually be sitting in a room or on the phone talking to someone directly. For example, my last internship while in university that ultimately led to my first “real job” looked like this:

1. Phone interview with recruiter
2. Online multiple-choice personality assessment
3. Recorded responses to on-the-fly questions
4. In-person competency test (Excel & SQL)
5. In-person case study
6. Presentation of test & case study answers
7. General interview with a panel of managers, HR, and a director

4-7 were all on the same day, but involved different focuses.

In the traditional sense, I only had 2 interviews where I was on the phone or sitting across from HR/managers answering questions about myself. Though this obviously involved many more steps than those 2 interviews. By another count there could be as many as 7 total steps or “interviews” taking place. Though they wouldn’t necessarily be able to drop me at any point, especially part way through steps 4-7 where they already walked me through what the day would look like.

Congrats and happy cake day! Do you feel comfortable sharing the annual compensation details for the one you accepted?

Belgium seems to focus way more on quantity. So as many bus stops and routes as possible.

The Netherlands focuses way more on quality. So better service, higher frequencies, average speeds, more modern rolling stock, etc. But the cost of that is that Dutch transit companies look critically at every line. If a bus stop or route has too few users and is not considered financially viable, it is scrapped or restructured. It leads to a better operating network overall, at the cost of more people left without transit nearby. This also means fewer routes and stops are needed, to increase efficiency and keep things viable. Another thing is that transit is quite a bit more expensive in The Netherlands.

Both systems have benefits and drawbacks. One leads to better accessibility and coverage. The other is beneficial for a better service if you have access to it. This map mostly rewards quantity.

This might be a little more useful if the countries were all at the same scale. Since all the scales here are different, it's much harder to visually compare network densities between nations.

Oh yeah with 3% you are definitely best served to have it as long as possible and rather invest the spare cash.

For tax: I got it wrong. As mentioned in the thread 40% is actually a pretty good rate.

Would be nice to see this in an income statement format spreadsheet..

It definitely seems excessive, though many of the highest paying positions include this length of process (whether truly necessary or not). I wouldn’t solely disqualify a company based on the number of interviews, especially if the position requiring the most work is likely the best offer, which I often find to be the case.

This varies immensely based on industry, role, experience, and even quality of application. If every one of these applications has a custom-tailored cover letter & resume, to a highly demanded position for which the applicant is well qualified for then you could see offers approach 50%. If on the other side of things the field is over saturated, the position has very few barriers to entry and therefore a high applicant pool, the applicant has very little relevant experience, and little effort was put into the resume/cover letter then you’d expect an almost 0% return.

That’s not even taking economic climate or local nuisances into consideration. I wouldn’t put much weight into the results of these without knowing the answers to a lot of the questions I posed.

That sound’s expensive. I get it for a senior executive position maybe. But for front line staff the recruitment team should cull the cvs to a shortlist for you and then you interview the ones you like the look of.

If you haven't got a single interview, it means at least one of the points:

1. You apply for much too ambitious positions you are not qualified for

2. You sent very few applications during last 2 years

3. Your documents are very bad prepared so they don't even want to talk to you

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Otherwise they would at least invite you and then reject. Try to be honest with you and think about it, the best you can do is to find an expert and pay him once some money so he can tell you what is the problem - as far as you are not afraid of truth. And you shouldn't be, it's very important.

All that big middle part with Madrid in the middle? No one lives there basically. Rural life has almost completely died, we even have a name for it ("the empty Spain"). Meanwhile in the Northwest (Galicia and to a similar extent Asturias) there are ten million of tiny villages where people still live and need transportation. I'm surprised by Cantabria ans Euskadi because o would have expected them to be similar.

Sheesh, only 568k? Pretty sure you can make more than that as a checker at Vons.

Mmmhm. All that big empty part is flat, but then if you look at Asturias (hilly af) it's super full of train lines. I really think the lack of lines in the centre is because no one lives there.

I can't tell if this is good or bad, you should have the US for reference so we know which one is the absolute worst

what’s wrong with sorting out the creeps?

Anyone who’s done any hiring will tell you how essential this part is…

It would be so weird if there was a way to geographically represent countries together to the same scale and to their proper orientation to each other to see how these systems could operate together.

What program you can use to create this kind of dashboards? I don't even know how they are called but I would like do my own graphics using it since they look very nice.

I had a phone interview and then 8 in-person thirty minute interviews for my internship in junior year of college. It was a full day event for an actuarial internship. I was 20 years old in a suit and scared shitless, but hey at least I do a damn good interview these days. You learn fast when that's your first interview experience for a "real job".