🎉 welcome Handpicked Community!
Issue #93 (18 Mar) – 20+ jobs in Data, Analytics & Finance; first podcast appearance; Coffee with Lena; Uber & Co. drivers problem; Kununu & Glassdoor; five elements of selling yourself.
Programming note: The Kleinazeigen are dead; long live the Handpicked Community! I removed “looking for jobs” because the results were weak. We are left with three categories: it’s a space for readers, great ideas and projects.
Also new: Jobs will also only have five fixed positions, with the rest available on the website. Snippets are getting clearer categories, and the footer link turned into a treat (h/t Vasily for the idea!). I hope you’ll like it. Drop me a comment.
🌟 Handpicked Community
📨 Submit your input here. Inspiration for all the categories on the link.
🎪 Meet — tech & other events:
Creating a Data-Driven Culture through Self-Service Analytics | Tue, 19.3 at 17.30 | OPD - Oberpostdirektion
People and Culture Club, HR Breakfast March Edition | Thu, 21.3 at 8.30 | BIA Berlin Innovation Agency
nocodeklub - meetup | Wed, 20.3 at 18.30 | Cardino HQ
😎 Show — Cool stuff / Shoutouts / Projects & similar:
(Inspiration: living room concerts, poetry slams, pop-ups, shoutouts for someone from the community who helped you, giveaways. Websites, apps, projects you've built. Tenders, project/ideas/startup funding sources.)
The two winners from last week’s raffle for the Freelance Unlocked conference are Elizabeth and Nicola. Congrats! Related video of me raffling.
Generative AI for SMEs: Call for funding.
HackUP: 36-hour student hackathon in Barcelona (May 3-5)!
🔍 Ask — for a Service / Co-founder / Project help & similar:
(Inspiration: looking for co-founders, project partners or freelancers; search for tech & non-tech related service. Support for your hobby projects, ideas, and groups.)
I am looking for someone with experience or resources in public funding programmes. It’s usually a lot of paperwork, but maybe also great opportunities.
Looking for the submission link? It’s below the title ⤴️
👀 Handpicked jobs
📨 Submitted by HR or readers
Sovereign Tech Fund - Program Manager
🚨 Premium Plus & STF got so much attention! Submit yours on the link 🚨
5️⃣ from the rotation this week: Data, Analytics & Finance
The remaining jobs (also outside rotation) are in the Handpicked online database.
📢 Help us get over 1000+ responses
Salary Trends Survey now has 800+ responses, but we’re sure we can get more. It’s anonymous and takes 3 minutes to complete. It will help you 1) understand where you stand and 2) help others benchmark and negotiate. The report will be available on the 15th of April.
If you have already participated, consider sharing it, for example:
on social media
on your internal Slack channels, chat groups in the company
on WhatsApp or Telegram groups/channels
We have a media file and graphics you can use.
🗞 Top inspiration snippets
☕️ Coffee with Lena Arkhipova
Lena is an experienced community builder & manager and an expert in transplanting people to Berlin. She is my go-to resource for anything Telegram and communities. Here is what she recommends for you:
'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death— I love this because of how thought to the minor details and how complex the plan is. I would love to learn to think about my projects the same way.
Bumble Founder: World’s Youngest Female Self-Made Billionaire — former Bumble Founder interview. I love her passion, her view on good and evil, her ability to rise from ashes, her ability to keep human face in business, and her drive to create something that improves how the world works.
Paul Graham: How to do great work — Super-relevant, motivating, and helping to structure things for me now. I also love all his essays.
🇩🇪 Berlin & Other good stuff
🎙️ If you are interested in the background of Handpicked, you can listen to my first podcast appearance EVER on Imperfect (Spotify, Apple). It was a great experience, and I was surprised that I didn’t feel annoyed by my own voice as much as expected.
🚖 Tagesspiegel reports (🇩🇪, €) that a third of Uber, Bolt & Co. drivers operate without necessary licenses, using middlemen to evade taxes and social security payments. Labo, a regulatory body, faces criticism (no shit!) for ineffective oversight, allowing such practices to persist. Despite police and customs efforts to combat this fraud, its systemic nature points to significant enforcement and regulation challenges. A similar article from RBB. (🇩🇪)
🙌🏻 Berlin history is a great app for exploring Berlin via maps and points of interest. I tested it, and it’s definitely worth a try. They also have Berlin 1945 before/after picture series. You can also participate.
Viva Technology has a 33% hit rate on predicting the next Unicorns, and these are the German companies for this year: Amboss, Anydesk, Auxmoney, Avi Medical, Camunda, Distribusion, Localyze, Moonfare, Oviva, Pricefx, Spryker, Uberall, Xentral and Urban Sports Club. Good luck!
🙄 Career: You probably used job/salary comparison portals. It seems that Glassdoor started adding real names to your profiles if they found them, so this post recommends deleting your profile. (I received this link from their customer support.) At the same time (🇩🇪), Kununu was ordered by the court to remove all contested reviews if the reviewer didn’t agree to disclose their identity after the company complained. Similar to Google reviews, this means law firms will now be able to make money cleaning reputations. “The law firm Sterne-Advo, which also represented the employer side in the precedent case, is already advertising with the slogan: "We checkmate negative reviews.” Kununu says they will appeal.
Career: A new study finds that the later we meet someone in a sequence, the more negatively we describe them, so you should apply for jobs as soon as possible!
Career: 5 simple elements of selling yourself on an interview by Bucco. Sorry, you will need a Twitter account, but this is excellent stuff. Contextualize and personalize! Let’s go!
Timeless: What is your level of confidence in your statements? Try this great calibration exercise by Julia Galef. I cannot recommend the book enough, especially in the age of share-like-and-think-later-or-never on social media. Back in the day, I also reviewed the book.
Reddit choice of the week is the bike auction for everyone considering getting a bike (this Wednesday from 15:00, Bahnhof Berlin-Lichtenberg).
💬 Briefly:
Adidas posted its first annual loss (€14M) in 30 years.
Tier wants to sell Nextbike, my favourite sharing bike, to PE fund Star Capital. (Welt)
Volocopter, a flying taxi from Ba-Wü, is still optimistic that they will get a flying clearance this year. (Handelsblatt)
Voi, a Swedish scooter company, raised $25M to take advantage of “rapid consolidation in the industry.” (Sifted)
Audi will enter F1 through Sauber.
Zalando reported 2023 numbers. Full-year adjusted EBIT rose to €350 million euros from 185 million euros on a 1.9% decline in revenue (€10.1B).
Telegram, the third-largest messenger service worldwide after WhatsApp and Snapchat, is almost profitable and would like to IPO in 2024 or 2025. It has 50 employees.
Vonovia posted terrible numbers: its 2023 loss was €6.76B, 10x more than in 2022. They have more than 500k residential properties across Germany and took a €10.7B downward value adjustment (to €81.1B).
Sparkasse(n) are printing money because of higher interest rates. Profits of 353 saving banks have risen to €17B. But to work there, you’ll most likely need German.
Crypto is up, and Robinhood stock was up last week: bullish for Trade Republic, Scalable & Flatexdegiro?
💸 Recently funded in Berlin & Germany
FrontNow | Berlin | Virtual shopping assistant and product description optimization | €3.8M | Careers.
Quantistry | Berlin | Cloud-based chemistry simulation platform for sustainable material development | €3M | Careers.
Ampeers Energy | Munich | Software-based energy management system for real estate | €10M+ | Careers.
Mindfuel | Munich | All-in-one data product management software | €3.75M | Careers.
Tubulis | Munich | Targeted cancer cell treatment technologies using ADCs | €128M | Careers.
Autonomo | Hamburg | Autonomous retail concept without queues | €2.3M | Careers.
Naro | Cologne | Fund and ETF setup software for companies | €3M | Careers.
NeoTaste | Osnabrück | Restaurant discovery app | €15.1M | Careers.
Spherity | Dortmund | Decentralized identity management | €2.5M | Careers.
Steadybit | Solingen | Chaos engineering platform | $6M | No careers.
Tomorrow Things | Bonn | AI-powered operating system for machines | €1.5M | Careers.
Aquaty | Münster | Venture capital investment platform | €2.3M | Careers.
😅 Meanwhile
I’d love to hear your feedback/testimonial on this link:
✌️ Handpicked essentials and a treat:
- Dmitry invites you to his Telegram Employ Community with EU tech jobs.
- Signing a new employment contract in Germany? Read this before.
- Don’t make these mistakes with your side hustle!
- ❓Surprise treat for the curious
- The best questions to ask at a job interview
- Write it down now! Or why you should journal at work?
- What do hiring managers look for in CVs?
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Really enjoyed that podcast episode! Great insights shared there.
'London Bridge is Down' is fantastic! I re-read it every few years and always discover something new to enjoy in the reporting.