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by azanar 18y ago
How do you know that a back-door reference from someone they did not list would not poison the well on an otherwise qualified candidate? Perhaps the candidate is ill-placed enough at his current employer to be likely to garner a one or more
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by azanar 18y ago
But asking for more references will not guarantee more perspectives; it is simply guarantees more data, possibly repeated data. It is quite possible that the 10-15 references you ask will say within delta of the same thing about the candida
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by azanar 18y ago
It's more than a glorified rolodex, really. With LinkedIn you get much more of a "push" approach to business networking, whereas the rolodex and telephone model is much more "pull" based. I can examine the profile of someone I've worked wit
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by azanar 18y ago
Can you explain what about Facebook is inherently dangerous to a career? Perhaps what some people put in their profiles would be damaging, but even that depends on what their field is, and how controlling and employee image focused their em
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by azanar 18y ago
The side-comment didn't bother me. I'd guessed the target audience of the original comment before that was posted. I might be reading too much into it, but it came off as "you lazy kids and your damned expectations" kind of rant from someon
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by azanar 18y ago
I agree that the original poster needs to calm down, but I get the impression you should calm down, too. I've been avoiding getting involved in the generational battle that seems to have been sparked here over the past week, since I didn't
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by azanar 18y ago
The term professional is so overloaded anymore as to seem almost meaningless; I'd look at it more as the difference between someone who cares about what they do, and someone who doesn't. Depending on who you ask, being "professional" can ac
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by azanar 18y ago
I'm appreciative of the answer though, because it raises a distinction between work in an aesthetic, at your desk between the appropriate hours and dressed professionally sense, and work in the sense of really thinking about and solving out
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by azanar 18y ago
It strikes me as something that would be far more accurate in a job where a predetermined set of steps are repeatedly performed, and the time taken for each is known before hand. For jobs where cognitive effort is the fuel behind productivi
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by azanar 19y ago
Perhaps induction and deduction? In any case, this is the basis behind economics as I understand it; taking data and then reasoning from there to more generalized models. Then those models can be used in future studies as a means to both re
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by azanar 19y ago
I will upfront admit only a limited knowledge of economics, but hopefully my math knowledge will save me enough to sound reasonably collected. I think you make two assumptions here that are either fallacious, or require additional evidence.
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by azanar 19y ago
This concept of professionalism depends very much on who you ask. Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, the duo behind Peopleware, might suggest that the problem isn't with the behavior of the programmers, but rather with the definition of a prop
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by azanar 19y ago
1. Yes, provided his primary motivator is money. Of course, if he were really motivated by money before anything else, he's probably smart enough, by merit of getting a BA, to figure out where to board the gravy train. 2. If you're doing de