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Open to Work: The Game Show

Hosted by Khwajalabs

When
7:30 PM
Where
Mission
Format
Experiential, Happy Hour and Networking
Open to Work: The Game Show artwork

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A live game show and networking night built around the one thing everyone in the room has in common: the job hunt.

Here's the bit. You apply to a fake job with your real resume. The room votes on who advances. Survivors get sixty seconds on stage to pitch themselves. Finalists sit for a live panel interview where the panel holds your actual resume and a set of loaded questions — plus a workplace scandal you know nothing about. Half the room can see what the other half can't. That gap is where the comedy lives.

Underneath the bit, it's networking that actually works. The crowd hears real career summaries during voting, strangers sell themselves to a room of peers, and nobody has to cold-approach anyone. The show manufactures the introductions. Speed networking, minus the speed dating energy.

Everything runs in your phone's browser, live and in sync with the host. No downloads, no accounts. Scan and you're in.

The fine print, in marker: the humor is workplace satire — layoffs, interview loops, corporate absurdity. Every scandal is fictional and generated fresh per show. Nobody's real resume goes on screen without their approval, from their own phone.

One winner, hired on the spot, for a job that does not exist. Compensation: bragging rights, fully vested. Then the real networking hour starts.

This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.

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