First off, apologies if this the incorrect stack exchange for this feedback. I clicked the 'Feedback is Welcome' button on Careers and ended up here, so I assume this is where I should be.
Seeing that Careers was doing a beta for the German version of the site, I went ahead and activated a profile on it. I was glad to see that much of my existing Careers info had already been pre-populated but noticed two things:
My City and State were populated incorrectly. I don't recall if I had previously entered a City and State (I updated it when I first saw it was incorrect) but my profile said I was a resident of Postal, Missouri. I believe perhaps that the English -> German translation was incorrectly applied to whatever default values these fields have in the database (perhaps every occurrence of Address was translated to Postal? Ich weiß wirklich nicht)
I wrote a brief background statement auf Deutsch for the German version of the site. I had assumed this would be separate from any personal statements on the normal version of my profile but realized with some consternation that my hintergrund was also my background. I propose that the localized version of the Careers pages not necessarily be reflected on your English Careers account; my display of my quite marginal German skills, while surely a useful indicator of my (un?)employability in Germany, is liable to cause a whole lot of WTF?-age for those employers whom I was not targeting with that text.
Danke für deine Zeit :)
