Sunday, March 30, 2008

Who to Hire

Thought this was a good topic to hit on with me being at the end of the road in my college career. I think I've written about this a couple of times but there was an interesting site that talks about the best people to hire and it wasn't one of those run in the mills sites that says just look for great resumes. It also has a top Ten List, I love that. Heres the Site

It talks about how the trends of hiring should go off the carbon copy perfect resume. It goes into the quality of the person. If I started up a company I wouldn't look so much at the person's resume as much as the kind of image you get and how you feel they will fit in a team. I think this is such an important task that they shouldn't leave it to people low on the team to do the interviewing. I think the interviews shouldn't be just one day sitting at a desk either the person should be brought into the workday and have everyone feel them out kind've like what we do with recruits for track.

A good idea I read about was to use the blog as a resume.
Here you find out who you really are dealing with and there interest and you can tell by what they talk about and how they interpret ideas how intelligent and interesting they are. With some of the videos I have on my blog I hope they don't use this one.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Specializing the Specialized

I had no idea what Crowdsourcing was, neither does spell check. Heres the Wikipedia.com definition
neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task, refine an algorithm or help capture, systematize or analyze large amounts of data (see also citizen science).


Ok so what newspapers are doing now is taking a story and spreading it out to more people. I don't get why they can't just have one person right it. I understand if it is the cure for Cancer where a collective group of people might need to work on something but thats not what they are doing. They are going to all put bits of information into a story. I see the pros as someone might have an additional information on the subject but I feel if someone is specialized on it they already have enough sufficient information.

I can see this just as a slower process and words getting jumbled and information to be all over the place. What do I know I don't make millions of dollars.

Happy Easter!
Jesus has Rising and he is ready to DANCE

Sunday, March 16, 2008

I'm Famous

Not to self publicize but only to show an example of great blogging I have posted a link to Dan Steinbger Washington Post Blog that coincidentially talks about the basketball team's playoff run and oh look at that ME.
American U.Questions Answered

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Teamming up



Teams is something I've been able to avoid until college. I mean yeah I was on the track team but thats an individual sport. Rarely did you have to rely on the other teammates for success. Now at American University we are always together and must use each other to push and succeed. Even though we are racing each other and actually trying to beat each other at the same time beating ourselves this isn't the hard part of college. I hate group projects. Who doesn't right? I love the idea you can meet new people and they usually are fun ideas. But I hate when you get that guy. If you don't know who that guy is it is probably you. That guys is the guy who doesn't do the work and leaves it to the smart hard worker to do for them(I am neither.) Then there is that girl. That girl is the girl who tries to take charge of the group and then you realize to yourself, "This girl doesn't know anything and I hate her, at least that guy doesn't show up and leaves us alone." I hate that girl more then I hate that guy.

A website that helps people figure out what they should look to build a team that is actually worth reading is this one; How to Pick Your Million Dollar Crew

Great starter
  1. Your greatest plan is only as strong as your weakest link.
  2. You don’t know what you don’t know

This can go in so many ways. READ IT THAT GIRL AND STOP RUINING GROUPS. If you don't know who that one is, its probably you.



Reference: The Picture came from here http://portfolio.rimestimes.net/teach.htm group projects are truly awesome.
 
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