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by nsedlet 14y ago
This is an excellent point. In the five years since I graduated college, I've seen so many friends blindsided by the difficulty of actually making a living in their chosen professions. Now that some are considering having families, they'r
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The Crowdsourced B-School Loan(online.wsj.com)
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by nsedlet 14y ago
Hyperlink to the survey: http://hireartsurvey.wufoo.com/forms/please-tell-us-how-you-...
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by nsedlet 14y ago
One answer is that higher education may be experiencing a bubble right now. It's true that more people are going to college than ever before and tuition has never been higher. But that only means that college degrees have perceived value,
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A killer feature would be auto-generation of the tab from the audio. Then you'd instantly have tons of content. Does anyone know if this is remotely possible? I messed around briefly with this a while back, and I remember it being very di
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My Life as a TaskRabbit(businessweek.com)
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HireArt (YC W12) is looking for a Rails dev in NYC
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by nsedlet 14y ago
HireArt (YC W12) is looking for a Rails dev in NYC [H1B welcome] HireArt is a software-automated employment agency. We believe that higher ed and the labor market are fundamentally out of sync, and so we're creating a new type of online jo
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Death by Degrees(nplusonemag.com)
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Inside the Museum of Failed Products(guardian.co.uk)
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by nsedlet 15y ago
We've been bootstrapping the process by using our own app to hire graders. We administer work sample interviews on our site (i.e. we give the applicants dummy interview responses to evaluate) and use our current graders to evaluate them.
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by nsedlet 15y ago
See an EEOC opinion letter on video interviewing here: http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/foia/letters/2004/titlevii_ada_reco... There are a few rules that need to be followed, but in short, the EEOC says it's okay.
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by nsedlet 15y ago
The grading is not automatable, but I suspect it's scalable. We're finding lots of quite talented people willing to work part-time as graders, and we streamline their grading process as much as possible. We also try to provide very very r
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by nsedlet 15y ago
By the way, we're specifically focused on non-technical hires right now. There are a few great tools out there for assessing coders (coding tests, Github), the likes of which the non-technical hiring process mostly lacks. So far, we've des
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by nsedlet 15y ago
Nick from HireArt here. I definitely agree with you that video interviews tend to be very time-consuming. One of the services we offer to employers is the grading of the interviews. We also keep the video portion very short (~2 1-minute
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HireArt (YC W12) Helps employers screen job applicants through work samples(hireart.com)
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by nsedlet 15y ago
The article is scant on details, but it does say that researchers want to use the enzyme extracted from the fungus to break down plastics, not introduce the fungus itself to our piles of garbage. This makes it a bit different from the case
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by nsedlet 15y ago
To bring up a potential real-world example: A friend of mine has done a lot of research on the major credit card companies for his hedge fund. He noticed that these companies tend to raise their fees basically in lock-step (when one does i
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How Belarusian maids successfully hack a system to their advantage(wikitravel.org)
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