September 2010
Autoblog | Audio engineer lists top 10 songs to test a car stereo →
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Music and driving, like ranch dressing and fries, are two things that go great together. When a vehicle is equipped with a good audio system, it…
WebWorker Daily |The Future of Work Won’t Contain Resumes →
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By Lukas Biewald, CEO, CrowdFlower,
Running a growing business, I read tons of resumes daily. It’s impossible to tell what a candidate is really like from a resume, so we probably overvalue the signals that we can actually pull out — fancy college, good GPA, sound-bite accomplishments at previous jobs. We also over-select for resume-writing ability — a single typo or ugly formatting is often enough to make us pass — but resume writing is not really part of the job for most of my hires. And the lack of relevant information that resumes give about a candidate means lots of time spent on phone screens and in-person interviews.
Dilbert for September 24, 2010
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