We need your opinions on the new FAQs page
Hi everyone,
I am the new WSO intern and I am working with Patrick to develop a new references page for our site. The goal is create a standalone, user friendly FAQs page to help new members understand the site better without posting repetitive questions.
As the project kicking off, we really need feedbacks and suggestions from you guys. The new page can be found here: //www.wallstreetoasis.com/page/frequently-asked-que…
Please go to the link and tell us what changes you want to see. At the moment we've just have a few topics and questions but we will keep adding new content. Let us know if you have a question or topic you want to include in, or if you disagree with some of the content or format of the page.
This project is to make WSO a better place and we greatly appreciate your support for our community.
Regards,
Stanley
"Chances" at X MBA = i have no idea because your essays are a huge component. It's not all GPA/GMAT. "Brand" of work experience is not irrelevant, but whatever 2% above irrelevant is called. Recs, essays, GMAT, what you've done (not where you've done it)...that's what's important.
Also an 80 point font banner instructing people to check the FAQ before just jumping to the forum.
Thanks for your suggestions, guys.
Are there any frequent questions that annoy you a lot?
I think we shoudl have a FAQ page on drug-testing policies since we have many repetitive threads asking similar questions when the drug testing comes up every year.
There should also be an FAQ page on Work Hours across industries and seniority - obviously the ranges will be pretty wide but linking to the most relevant threads would help here.
FYI to everyone, I DOUBT this will reduce the # of repetitive threads hitting the forums, but it will allow the regular users to point to the FAQ & Search with much less guilt.
I gotta agree with Patrick. I'm also going to suggest leveraging some of the posts already here and convert them into FAQs. There has been good stuff written that can be levered into a decent enough Q&A on a number of topics.
Gekko's stuff comes to mind in particular
Agree with the above. What is up now with all the defnitions is perfect, but what to answer some of the more common questions that require a lot of writing it is probably better if we offer links to 3-5 extremely helpful threads rather than a description--"What major to get into finance" and "How to write a resume" come to mind. The resume one should have a description, but then links to some of the resume reviews that have gotten a lot of solid responses so that people can see the different "types" of changes that are done--also have a link to M&I.
Don't hurt your arm patting yourself on the back their Gekko haha
It's weird that I can't give SB while at work, but you'll get one when I get home.
And there NEEDS to be sections on "SA interviews harder than FT" and "Deciding between S&T and banking" "Banking vs Consulting" ect.
Having the firm vs firm comparison is ok, but a lot of people ask about the differences in general career choices and that needs to be limited as much as possible.
Great insights, guys. I have a number of questions up and will write detail answer for each of them (sure I'll include links to relevant threads).
I've also created a topic menu on the top of the page for easier navigations. Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks,
Stanley
Not a FAQ suggestion but forum in general...separate undergrad v. MBA b-school threads would be helpful I think. Capture some market share from gmatclub and similar forums.
Cities for IB might be helpful as well. Even if it's just New York and Other, would help the information flow, make things easier to find = less repetitive threads in the broad IB forum
...not sure i follow? Are you suggesting we create new forum buckets? I have been really against this for a variety of reasons, the primary one being that users have a hard enough time posting threads to the proper forums as it already stands and I'd guess that adding to the # of forums would only make that issue worse.
Agree with WSO on more forums. If anything I'd be a proponent of WSO breaking up into a number of specific sites (WSO, B-School Oasis, JD Oasis, CorpFin Oasis, etc). And stoked I can stop trying to find time to make finance FAQs. Looks like it's gonna be great guys!
haha, I love that someone threw shit on the intern.
New FAQ--How long does it take to hear back after interview. This could be a simple two or three paragraph response.
Hey Patrick, to be completely honest, I think the reason why we get so many retarded posts isn't because the FAQ isn't comprehensive enough, but because no one can find the damn FAQ.
I mean those of us who've been here long enough know exactly where it is, but the newer monkeys (the ones who make 90% of these posts) just search for 20 seconds, then go straight to the industry bucket of their choice.
I think it might just be easier to move the link to the FAQ out of the forums drop-down menu (it's not a forum anyway) and the about drop-down menu and give it its own link in bold font on the top toolbar next to 'About'. Easy to find and can't miss.
good call - I was thinking of doing this once the FAQ is a bit more dense with content...but I think we'll get there soon.
I want Blatoise to write the FAQ section
Blastoise should do a "Culture of WSO" write-up to explain that LSO quotes are LSO quotes and not actual advice.
hilarious...I think this should be the motto of the FAQ page.
Blastoise should do a "Culture of WSO" write-up to explain that LSO quotes are LSO quotes and not actual advice.
As much as I love Blastoise's stuff, I want Blumie to write the FAQ.
blumie is fucking hilarious
Update: The FAQ page is starting to fill in nicely but if someone is willing to go through (a mod or admin) and help with the grammar / wording that would be much appreciated. //www.wallstreetoasis.com/page/frequently-asked-questions
Stanley is doing a good job outlining some of the most FAQs, but neither one of us is a great writer.
help?
Thanks, Patrick
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