UPDATE: 2023 Predictions check-in and updates!

Hi, so I can speak to changes we've made at Formation, which is not a bootcamp and was engineered to be dynamic and flexible, these are the things I remember in the past 6 months off the top of my head in the 3 mins I timeboxed to writing this: 1. Redid job hunt reference materials twice 2. Redid async resume review process so people can get reviews faster in general 3. Created 5 new group and mentor led session types around job hunting, networking, job hunt office hours, storytelling, and specially check-ins 4. Created dedicate peer referrals channel, which isn't working too well because of the market 5. Added dozens of industry recruiters for mock interviews and responses in chat 6. Created a book a recruiter call on demand flow self service on our platform for people in interviews 7. Added on platform referral request flows for people who are a good match for companies to request referrals 8. Work on company partnerships to create pathways, like our Netflix program and more to come 9. Created a resume book to share within our network of.top tier companies 10. Source hundreds of jobs a week and surface them to Fellows based on their personal preferences in a Tinder-like tool Meanwhile we have literally dozens of actual training improvements like learning paths, hundreds of new tasks and sessions, new long term maintenance topics for people lasting longer in the program. I can go into more detail on these but all of the stuff above was two or three employees and we have way more people working on the technical stuff!! But all of this said, it's still really challenging to get people placed who don't have experience or a network. There isn't a magic way to frame your bootcamp projects to get your resume seen. If we refer you somewhere and there are 100 other people with work experience there's only so much we can do. So we have way more to do and just getting started! This is why it boggles my mind that I've seen almost no changes from bootcamps. No changes to advice, no changes to curriculum. Just empty slack channels and people waiting 2 weeks to get a resume review consistently, and alumni being booked up for a month for mock interviews. I don't have the answers for other programs because I put this brain energy into Formation.