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Hiring: 3 Ways to Look Beyond the Resume
February 22, 2012
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Why is there a shortage of talent in IT sectors?
February 21, 2012
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…an inefficiently low level of output coupled with higher wages for known high talents. This problem is most severe where information about talent is initially very imprecise and the complementary costs of production are high. I argue that high incomes in professions such as entertainment, management, and entrepreneurship, may be explained by the nature of the talent revelation process, rather than by an underlying scarcity of talent.
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Results of Joel Spolsky’s “What Programmers Want” Survey
February 11, 2012
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1. Room for Growth of Skills
2. High Caliber Team
3. Positive Org Structure
4. Opportunity to Use New Technologies
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Jobseekers Invited to Apply Via API to Parse
February 10, 2012
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Forget uploading resumes or filling out forms on some job board. Backend-as-a-service company Parse is inviting potential hires to apply via its Parse API. In what initially looks like an added barrier to entry, the company is hoping its cheeky and geeky move will attract the sort of developers who think in JSON.
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Why I Won’t Hire You – lifegacker
January 24, 2012
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1) Show me you can get things done. This means you can accomplish challenging tasks quickly, come up to speed when necessary, go the extra mile if you have to, influence peers. You must be self-motivated.
2) Show me you are intelligent. I will ask you questions that are designed to make you think. Show me you can. Don’t confuse intelligence with education. I don’t care what kind of schooling you had, if you can’t think, no job. If you can think, and aren’t educated, no problem in my book, though I’ll probably look for more experience instead.
3) Show me how I fit into your vision. Truthfully, we’ll work best together if you think this job is the best place for you to be right now. I want to help you succeed in your career, let me.
4) Be highly skilled.
5) Be Passionate. If you are bored working in a similar job somewhere else, you’ll be bored with me. Period. I don’t want any of that.
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CodeInterview.Me: interviewing programmers made easy
June 6, 2011
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CodeInterview.me is the easiest way to interview coders with tools that you are used to. Let your candidates code in their own IDE where they feel comfortable and check the results in a rich browser-based plugin, featuring syntax highlighting and more! Share the URL with a team conducting the interview.
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The Curve of Talent – Anything’s Possible
June 2, 2011
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Large companies fire those who get F grades, because they are not at all productive. They accept C players, because they are somewhat productive with guidance and B players are hard to find. It is very easy for a C player to seem moderately successful when progress is largely based on inertia. Large corporations celebrate B players who can competently complete their job with minimum coaching and maintain inertia. These are the heroes of large corporations. A players don’t want to be at large companies because, more often than not, corporate bureaucracy and process not only fail to reward, but actually punish A players. By putting the objectives ahead of process and politics, A players step on bureaucratic toes and don’t retreat based on false territorial claims. It’s not fun trying to innovate at a large company when co-workers feel that you’re threatening the core inertia on which the business is based.
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