Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran a crazy story covering Serena Dao's job search post graduation from Tepper School of Business.
She applied to 260 jobs...
In the end, all of the cold applications were a complete waste of time. It was a Trust Network that eventually helped her land a job at The Engine. A manager from a prior fellowship put in a good word and that helped her application rise above the noise.
Tech recruiters have officially started losing jobs to AI. But not everyone - it depends on a couple of factors...
Tech recruiters focus on 4 key areas: candidate identification, candidate outreach, candidate screening, and process management. AI can do all of it...but...
But, if your target candidate pool is small, you can't afford to spam anyone. Only highly tailored approaches will work that AI isn't good enough for...yet...
Then it comes to trust networks. Do you have a network of people you trust who also trust you?
Meritocracy and diversity initiatives can coexist. The biggest missed opportunity for companies to do this is with international hiring.
The newest/hottest social network for kids right now is text/WhatsApp groups + memes/gifs/YouTube shorts.
As a father of young teenage girls I did finally allow them to have phones in middle school, but absolutely no social media apps. But kids are smart and create their own-arg
Dear @AlaskaAir thank you for changing my flight from a 7:00am departure to a 6:30pm departure and then not even notifying me. #rockstar
This year has been all about the "great resignation" in the US. In Latin America it has been all about the "great hiring".... blog.telescoped.com/2021/12/….
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Join us for a webinar this afternoon that Telescoped is co-hosting with Rocket Girls on women in tech. 2pm EDT today (5/18)! Note that the webinar will be in Spanish. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… #womenintech
I think the old playbook of cities trying to attract companies is about to be replaced by cities trying to attract knowledge workers. Company location will be irrelevant. #remotework blog.telescoped.com/2021/03/…
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As companies start to plan for life post COVID-19, the discussion should be about autonomy, not about location: blog.telescoped.com/2020/10/…



