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“A Philadelphia-area human-resources executive told Mr. Cappelli that he applied anonymously for a job in his own company as an experiment. He didn’t make it through the screening process.” —

Software Screening Rejects Job Seekers - WSJ.com

Yeeahhh, I’d say that’s a bit of a problem.

I hate this automatification of applicant screening. Takes the humanity out of it. I’m convinced that I’ve applied for jobs in the past that I’m more than qualified for — that, if I could just get in the door to talk to someone, I’m almost sure they would offer me a position — but, you know, there’s the rub. Getting there at all.

(via meredithmo)

I’ve been thinking that in my next company I would just hire a super smart, amicable, social, trusted friend to just sit and talk to people all the time. That would be my recruiting. I or the appropriate person would take it from there. Seems pretty scalable - if he or she talked to 8-10 people a day, they could screen something like 2,500 applicants a year. You could hire a couple if you needed. It would be a fun job to have.

Come to think of it, I think I might enjoy THAT job.

May 31, 201216 notes

#jobs #job seekers #resumes #applying for jobs #unemployment #humanity

“You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.” —David Bowie (via replaceface)

May 31, 2012264 notes

“More and more I’ve come to the conclusion that a principle isn’t a principle until it costs you money.” —Bill Bernbach

May 31, 201221 notes

“I can put down on a page a picture of a man crying, and it’s just a picture of a man crying. Or I can put him down in such a way as to make you want to cry. The difference is artistry - the intangible thing that business distrusts.” —Bill Bernbach

May 31, 20127 notes

sawickipedia reblogged your quote: The proposed ban would affect virtually the entire…

Boy nothing like NYC’s ego to get in the way of the facts. NYC DID NOT START THE SMOKING BAN MOVEMENT. In fact it was…

Totally. It was already banned in Boston before I moved here. NY was definitely on the tail end. I am still excited about this ban, though. Reading Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness right now and loving it.

May 31, 20121 note

#sawickipedia

“You can have everybody coming in on time, everybody leaving on time, all work finished on the due date, and still have a lousy ad, and fail.” —Bill Bernbach

May 31, 20124 notes

“At the bottom, the Court’s opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt… It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of money in corporate politics.” —Supreme Court JusticeJohn Paul Stevens, in the dissenting opinion for Citizens United.

May 31, 20122 notes

“The proposed ban would affect virtually the entire menu of popular sugary drinks found in delis, fast-food franchises and even sports arenas, from energy drinks to pre-sweetened iced teas. The sale of any cup or bottle of sweetened drink larger than 16 fluid ounces — about the size of a medium coffee, and smaller than a common soda bottle — would be prohibited under the first-in-the-nation plan, which could take effect as soon as next March.” —

A New York Times article regarding a proposed plan in New York City to ban sugared drink sizes larger than 16 ounces. Or in other words, your Trenta just got cut in half. Also, the corn syrup lobby has had a really terrible day. (via shortformblog)

This is so awesome, New York City leads the way once again. This will spread nationally and globally just like our smoking ban.

(via peterfeld)

May 31, 2012137 notes

May 31, 201211 notes

“Edison guaranteed productivity by giving himself and his assistants idea quotas. His own personal invention quota was one minor invention every 10 days and a major invention every six months.” —What It Takes To Innovate: Wrong-Thinking, Tinkering & Intuiting :: Articles :: The 99 Percent

May 30, 201212 notes

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn’t work out, you had your head cut off” —

Edwin Land

What It Takes To Innovate: Wrong-Thinking, Tinkering & Intuiting :: Articles :: The 99 Percent

May 30, 201214 notes

May 29, 201284 notes

buzz replied to your quote: Organizations may be better able to tame optimism…

I’ve always thought it would be pretty cool to have been one of those GBN scenario planners with Stewart Brand in the 90s.

OMG totally. I had the privilege of meeting Napier Collyns from GBN a few times, and he even gave Benjamin and I a tour of the office. I would have love love love to have worked there. Benjamin and I also got to do some scenario planning at a World Economic Forum conference in Tokyo. My team had the CEO of SK Telecom on it. It was so fun.

May 29, 20121 note

#buzz

“Anyways, finally getting to my reason for posting - Blake Hazard, the great-granddaughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ms. Hazard lived in Boston, MA at the same time I was there. And although I never met her, the record company I was a partner in, The Archenemy Record Company, included her song Glittering on our Know Your Enemy compilation. (Interesting fact: We had the mirrored digipacks, so you would see yourself in them as ‘the enemy’, made in The Netherlands and the cds themselves manufactured in Canada, each country being cheapest for said product. When the digipacks arrived at Customs in NYC, they had never encountered such an item before - an empty digipack made from such paper, without the cd - and thus had to invent a new tariff for it).” —

First Kiss Lips: Blake Hazard - Glittering…

Dear god, getting those digipacks out of customs was a nightmare for me. Why did I make the whole thing such a production. I had seen the JSBX’s “Orange” CD in mirrored digipack and thought the whole thing would be simple. I was so so wrong.

An interesting aside to this aside, I remember just avoiding my record label partners when the digipacks were delayed for a month or so awaiting a tariff ruling. Afterwards, Sean Drinkwater patiently explained to me that I could have simply explained what was going on, rather than avoiding the situation. Wise words, and ones I still have trouble with. This was right after I had just spent a full four months avoiding Jason from Neptune regarding the delays in the packaging of his sheet-metal-clad LPs.

Man. Experimental packaging. I do not miss those days. Oh wait, yes, yes I do.

May 29, 20122 notes

May 29, 20122,206 notes

“Organizations may be better able to tame optimism and individuals than individuals are. The best idea for doing so was contributed by Gary Klein, my “adversarial collaborator” who generally defends intuitive decision making against claims of bias and is typically hostile to algorithms. He labels his proposal the premortem. The procedure is simple: when the organization has almost come to an important decision but has not formally committed itself, Klein proposes gathering for a brief session a group of individuals who are knowledgeable about the decision. The premise of the session is a short speech: “Imagine that we are a year into the future. We implemented the plan as it now exists. The outcome was a disaster. Please take 5 to 10 minutes to write a brief history of that disaster.” —Kahneman, Daniel (2011-10-25). Thinking, Fast and Slow (p. 264). Macmillan. Kindle Edition.

May 29, 20129 notes

bustr:

healthmonth:

Through a series of personal realizations and business inevitabilities, it looks like I’m going to have to try to find a new owner for Health Month.

Ideally, it would be someone from the community who loves it and has the time, energy, and resources to keep it…

May 28, 201215 notes

May 28, 201220 notes

#the cure #reeves gabrels

Play

May 28, 20124 notes

“It is no coincidence that interaction design is replacing technical prowess as the primary competency at startups. People who create great experiences will be the most valuable to startups, and startups that create great experiences will be the most valuable to users.” —

The experience economy - Chris Dixon

This is both welcome news and totally terrifying. Because if you’ve been practicing interaction design for a while (which I guess I have), you know that what qualifies someone for the title “interaction designer” has always been squishy. With this new emphasis from startups, I fear the term will get even more nebulous. There’s an art and science to the discipline - shaped by years of maturing the way we work and guided by thoughtful writing from respected authors, from Wurman to Garret to Saffer and everyone in between. And while there has always been a certain level of mercenary charlatanism to the field of interaction design, I can imagine it’ll only get worse as startups pick up every rock trying to find their now-essential practitioner.

(via Brian Oberkirch)

Maybe it’ll become one of those fields where you just live and die by the quality of your last work, like film director or record producer, where the results have to speak for themselves in terms of measurable improvements in visits or engagement times?

May 27, 201222 notes