Robotics and Artificial Intelligence software will replace recruiters in the near future. Most of the resume screening is done by software anyway, at least in larger companies. All that remains is the initial "interview" done by the recruiter. Almost all of the recruiters I have ever spoken to I can assure you have never written a line of code in their lives. They know absolutely nothing about the job I am applying for so this so called interview is pointless.
Things like "cultural fit" can be sorted out by the actual hiring manager or other team members. So we don't need recruiters for that either.
Even the HR department, as it is currently constructed, should just be a part of the Legal department. If you think about it, nearly everything that the HR department does has to be with protecting the company from lawsuits - harassment, discrimination, etc. Traditional HR duties like Benefits sign up is self service these days. Tasks like On Boarding could be contracted out to a temp firm. Just bring in someone once a month and conduct the session for the entire group of new hires from the past month.
Just another useless middleman. Do away with them I say.
Then I came back about a year later. The first time I felt like I had seen everything they had to offer. I would scroll and scroll and not find anything of interest to me so I finally canceled it. Then I came back and I'm finding the same urge again. Putting ads in will probably push me to cancel again.
Blackberry. I picked one up last year (the Priv model) for around $250. It runs pure Android without any carrier crap added to it. As a bonus, it is a very secure phone. It comes bundled with several BB apps and my favorite is BB Hub. It's sort of like a communications unified inbox. You can uninstall the BB apps if you don't want to use them. The best part is that you get access to the entire Google Play Store. It will run any Android app.
For fans of it, there is a physical keyboard. Honestly I never really type with it but it does come with a lot of clever shortcuts. The screen is good (1920 resolution) and the camera is pretty good. Not as good as the iPhone camera but at 1/4 the price I can live with it. Battery isn't stellar but I can get through most of the day without looking for a recharge.
These days the only place you can buy a BB is either Best Buy or Amazon. For the money, it's a good phone.
What do they all have in common? They lack any real competition. In every case the customer has little or no choice of their service provider. With airlines the choice is fly or take the train or drive. In most cases the alternatives are impractical. With car dealers, unless you are buying a Tesla, you have to work through a dealer network. In most cases that is actually protected by law. The only viable alternative is to buy a used car or don't drive.
It's not much better with cellphones. Service generally sucks, service sucks, coverage sucks and it's expensive. At one time I remember rumors of Apple entering the cell service market. It turned out not to be true but I wish they had.
It's a little different with cable companies. With traditional cable you have the traditional oligopoly. But there is a viable alternative - cut the cord. Get an antenna, NetFlix and maybe Hulu or Amazon and you don't need the cable companies anymore. The cable companies know this and respond in typical fashion - by trying to punish their customers for leaving. Good luck with that strategy boys. Meanwhile their customer service ratings continue to stink and people are cutting the cord at an ever increasing rate.
If Oracle were awarded the contract instead then Amazon or Microsoft would just sit by idly? Of course not. They would launch lawsuits of their own. This story has nothing to do with what's best for the federal government and everything to do with endless corporate greed.
Obviously Oracle is fighting to prevent a competitor from getting a foot in the door. They want the whole pie for themselves, just like Microsoft and Amazon do.
I'm certainly no fan of VZ or ATT but I'm happy with T-Mobile. I was in the store last week and the guy mentioned that they have signal amplifiers that you can use. All you need to do is put down a $25 deposit and they will let you use it for free. You just return the equipment if you terminate service. I can't attest to how well it works (or doesn't) but it might be worth a try in your case.
Yes I agree with you. Cloud will end. The dirty little secret is that it costs you a lot more money in the long run than on premise. Sooner or later the people reading those CIO magazines will figure it out but until then it's all the rage.
the article says "rolls back". It doesn't roll anything back. It freezes it at 2020 levels for up to 6 years.
I'm all for lower emissions but the fact of the matter is that it adds costs to the cars. At the same time automakers are adding every gadget under the sun. That adds weight to the car, forcing them to add more power to the engines to provide at least comparable performance to last years model. The other option is to try and trim weight by using aluminum or other light weight materials and that adds cost.
Everyone is using turbo charged engines now. Even in trucks that traditionally had V8s. While the turbos provide better gas mileage they are not as durable as the tried and true V8 engines. Time will tell how well they hold up but I have my doubts.
What I would like to see are some cars without all the useless gadgets. I don't want a touch screen. It is distracting. And given that nearly everything is controlled by the touch screen, God help you if it stops working. It's not like the old days where, say, your tachometer stopped working. The rest of the gauges would work and you could fix it - cheaply - at your leisure. Over the next 5-6 years you're going to see a lot of these touch screens start to fail and it won't be like putting in a new iPad. These things will cost thousands to replace. My guess would be $6000 and up for the fancier ones. Same thing with the 10 speed transmissions. When those things start to fail it might cost more than the car is worth at that point to replace it.
All in the name of good gas mileage. A noble cause but we are creating a generation of un-repairable cars. We are fixing one problem only to create another.
Ellison was initially a big critic of cloud computing and famously boasted that it would be a flop. Now that a lot of companies have embraced it, Oracle is left scrambling. Workday, Amazon, Google, Microsoft...they all have a huge head start.
If this keeps up poor old Larry is going to have to sell off one of his Hawaiian islands or a couple of Malibu estates...oh the humanity!
I suppose we could debate how successful it will be but at least he's stepping up and trying to help. Interestingly he opened the school in his home town, not his new digs in LA. In contrast, I don't recall Michael Jordan doing a damn thing for the underprivileged in Brooklyn (his hometown). Magic Johnson? Well, he opened a bunch of restaurants in East LA but this is a for profit venture.
For the record, I'm not a huge LeBron fan but in this case I think he deserves some credit. He didn't go to college because he was blessed with exceptional sports talent but for the vast, vast majority of these kids there is no sports scholarship in their future. The only way they are getting out of poverty is through education.
The thought of Microsoft and Security being used in the same sentence is laughable.
Meanwhile, user accounts in Windows are still created with Admin rights...BY DEFAULT. And the Windows Registry continues to be a minefield for malware and rootkits. Yeah...give me a call when you get that mess straightened out. Until then, Microsoft will be the last company I would be getting security advice from.
It's not like people are "adopting" anything. If you buy a new PC it's going to come pre-installed with Windows 10, unless it's a MAC. A better indicator would be how many people are buying a Windows 10 disc and voluntarily replacing their current OS with it. I suspect that number is very very low.
"If they want better internet they should move to where it exists." - And contribute to further pollution, traffic and overcrowding of large cities? I don't see how that helps at all. Besides, this is classic blaming the victim reasoning. The problem is not that I chose to live in a rural area. The problem is that the broadband monopolies did not live up to their end of the bargain.
I'll give you an example. Where I live every lot is zoned at one acre minimum. Less than 5 miles away some developer is building a subdivision with thousands of houses shoehorned one beside the other. I choose not to live in an HOA managed neighborhood where the next house is 10 feet from my lot line. The HOA is getting high speed broadband while the acre dwellers are left to fend for ourselves. Luckily, I have a fixed wireless provider that provides about 25MB/sec and that's good enough for Netflix. But I can't get Gigabit speed because Cox Communications won't expand the service to the "rural" area - 5 miles away.
As others have pointed out, the TelCos have been granted this virtual Oligopoly in part because they agreed to service rural areas. They have not held up to their end of the bargain and our governments appear to do nothing about it. Yet another example of a problem caused expressly by our elected officials.
I did consulting for many years. I loved the challenge and variety of the work but hated the travel. Nobody could give me any guarantee that I wouldn't have to travel so I found a local gig. It has its ups and downs but overall I'd rather be sleeping in my own bed every night.
Keep in mind that mortgage interest is not tax deducible in Canada like it is in the good old USA. Neither is property tax and in Toronto it's very high. A lot of big ticket items like cars cost more in Canada and the price of gas is approaching that of Europe. Actually, a lot of things cost more in Canada due to lack of competition compared to the US. So the cost of living is pretty high in Toronto compared to most US cities.
Toronto does have a very good public transit system - when they aren't on strike - so that's a plus. The weather kind of sucks there - long cold winters and short humid summers. Most of Canada is like that with the exception of Vancouver, which is a beautiful city but horrendously expensive.
How is what Google did considered monopolistic practices? First of all, Google does not have a monopoly on mobile phones. Apple is doing just fine in that arena and if you don't like the conditions that Google imposes then go get an iPhone. This is not like the Microsoft case where, at the time, well over 90% of all personal computers were running Windows and there was no viable alternative.
I thought the whole idea of having a "store" to download apps was to help protect users from getting malware on their phones. It is much like the Linux model of Package management where software is housed in a trusted, centralized location and you can download it with a high level of confidence that it is virus free. Contrast that to the Windows model where you go here, there and everywhere to get software. It is especially problematic with "free" software that is frequently laden with spyware. Anyone remember Limewire?
Google has spent a lot of time effort and money enhancing Android. OK, they bought it from someone else but they have improved it greatly. Are they not entitled to make a profit from their store just like Apple does? Samsung and others have profited greatly by piggybacking on Android.
I guess I'm just struggling to see just who the EU is protecting us from.
Amazon is a direct competitor of both Walmart and Microsoft. Walmart on the retail side and MS on the cloud services side. Yes, Walmart's online website sucks but it will get better. If they have proven anything over the years it is that they are tenacious and they know how to make money.
As near as I can tell, AWS is the only profitable division in Amazon. Everything else loses money and yet their stock price is through the roof. Traditional measures like P/E ratio don't seem to count for much in today's market.
Microsoft has been able to turn the corner. They rely less on Windows license revenue and have done a nice job with Azure.
I guess we'll see how it all works out but I think it's a smart move. Amazon is the big dog right now but I'm starting to see some backlash at how big they have become and some of their business practices. This is a smart strategy for both Walmart and Microsoft.
Netflix has to be just loving this. AT&T will turn one of the only remaining traditional TV stations into complete and utter shit. Well, at least it will have plenty of company. Meanwhile watch how subscribers run for the hills as the price goes up and the quality goes down.
AT&T has always been run as a monopoly. They haven't the faintest idea about customer service and now they are going to be in for a very rude awakening. RIP HBO.
"The 4 years shows a person can study, pass an exam." - Perhaps but completely irrelevant in the workplace. To pass an exam one must have the ability to memorize facts. In the workplace this is of little value.
" Read, write and keep time." - I would challenge your assertion about read and write. I have worked with plenty of university grads with absolutely atrocious spelling and grammar. I fail to see how a 4 year degree is a good indicator of ones ability to keep time. Being punctual is something a child can demonstrate. No degree required.
"How they got into university?" - Good question. When applicants are reviewed for admission did you know that preference is given to the children of alumni? Preference is also given based on gender and ethnic background. It's been a long time since university admission was based solely on merit. Recently the University of Chicago announced that SAT scores will become optional. The last remaining truly universal merit based test is being cast aside. I weep for the children of tomorrow.
I hear that Anthony Weiner is open to exploring new opportunities. Does anyone have Matt Lauer or Harvey Weinstein or Charlie Rose on speed dial? Now that the bar has been set sufficient low I'm sure that any of them would be fine candidates.
Here in the good old US of A there are a few cities that have a public transit system that is good enough to get by without having a car. New York city comes to mind. If you live close to the BART line in San Francisco it works well for the daily commute. Maybe Chicago. The T-line in Boston is pretty good.
After that it is a very steep drop off. Public transit really only works if you live and work right downtown of a major city. If you are in the suburbs then forget it. Rightly or wrongly, having a car is seen by some as a symbol of success. In America there is a stigma attached to taking the bus. Most people would prefer the freedom of having their own car and setting their own schedule.
Where I work there is a ride share program but almost nobody uses it. Why? Because I don't want to be sitting in front of someones house waiting for them to get their shit together while my car idles away. Or standing in the hot sun waiting for my ride to show up. Yes, I would probably save some money but for me the freedom is worth more than the few dollars I might save.
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Robotics and Artificial Intelligence software will replace recruiters in the near future. Most of the resume screening is done by software anyway, at least in larger companies. All that remains is the initial "interview" done by the recruiter. Almost all of the recruiters I have ever spoken to I can assure you have never written a line of code in their lives. They know absolutely nothing about the job I am applying for so this so called interview is pointless.
Things like "cultural fit" can be sorted out by the actual hiring manager or other team members. So we don't need recruiters for that either.
Even the HR department, as it is currently constructed, should just be a part of the Legal department. If you think about it, nearly everything that the HR department does has to be with protecting the company from lawsuits - harassment, discrimination, etc. Traditional HR duties like Benefits sign up is self service these days. Tasks like On Boarding could be contracted out to a temp firm. Just bring in someone once a month and conduct the session for the entire group of new hires from the past month.
Just another useless middleman. Do away with them I say.
Then I came back about a year later. The first time I felt like I had seen everything they had to offer. I would scroll and scroll and not find anything of interest to me so I finally canceled it. Then I came back and I'm finding the same urge again. Putting ads in will probably push me to cancel again.
Blackberry. I picked one up last year (the Priv model) for around $250. It runs pure Android without any carrier crap added to it. As a bonus, it is a very secure phone. It comes bundled with several BB apps and my favorite is BB Hub. It's sort of like a communications unified inbox. You can uninstall the BB apps if you don't want to use them. The best part is that you get access to the entire Google Play Store. It will run any Android app.
For fans of it, there is a physical keyboard. Honestly I never really type with it but it does come with a lot of clever shortcuts. The screen is good (1920 resolution) and the camera is pretty good. Not as good as the iPhone camera but at 1/4 the price I can live with it. Battery isn't stellar but I can get through most of the day without looking for a recharge.
These days the only place you can buy a BB is either Best Buy or Amazon. For the money, it's a good phone.
Think of all the industries with shitty customer service ratings:
1) Cable
2) Cellphones
3) Utilities
4) Airlines
5) Car dealers
What do they all have in common? They lack any real competition. In every case the customer has little or no choice of their service provider. With airlines the choice is fly or take the train or drive. In most cases the alternatives are impractical. With car dealers, unless you are buying a Tesla, you have to work through a dealer network. In most cases that is actually protected by law. The only viable alternative is to buy a used car or don't drive.
It's not much better with cellphones. Service generally sucks, service sucks, coverage sucks and it's expensive. At one time I remember rumors of Apple entering the cell service market. It turned out not to be true but I wish they had.
It's a little different with cable companies. With traditional cable you have the traditional oligopoly. But there is a viable alternative - cut the cord. Get an antenna, NetFlix and maybe Hulu or Amazon and you don't need the cable companies anymore. The cable companies know this and respond in typical fashion - by trying to punish their customers for leaving. Good luck with that strategy boys. Meanwhile their customer service ratings continue to stink and people are cutting the cord at an ever increasing rate.
If Oracle were awarded the contract instead then Amazon or Microsoft would just sit by idly? Of course not. They would launch lawsuits of their own. This story has nothing to do with what's best for the federal government and everything to do with endless corporate greed.
Obviously Oracle is fighting to prevent a competitor from getting a foot in the door. They want the whole pie for themselves, just like Microsoft and Amazon do.
Not sure. The dude at the store didn't mention anything about that. Doesn't hurt to ask though.
I'm certainly no fan of VZ or ATT but I'm happy with T-Mobile. I was in the store last week and the guy mentioned that they have signal amplifiers that you can use. All you need to do is put down a $25 deposit and they will let you use it for free. You just return the equipment if you terminate service. I can't attest to how well it works (or doesn't) but it might be worth a try in your case.
Yes I agree with you. Cloud will end. The dirty little secret is that it costs you a lot more money in the long run than on premise. Sooner or later the people reading those CIO magazines will figure it out but until then it's all the rage.
the article says "rolls back". It doesn't roll anything back. It freezes it at 2020 levels for up to 6 years.
I'm all for lower emissions but the fact of the matter is that it adds costs to the cars. At the same time automakers are adding every gadget under the sun. That adds weight to the car, forcing them to add more power to the engines to provide at least comparable performance to last years model. The other option is to try and trim weight by using aluminum or other light weight materials and that adds cost.
Everyone is using turbo charged engines now. Even in trucks that traditionally had V8s. While the turbos provide better gas mileage they are not as durable as the tried and true V8 engines. Time will tell how well they hold up but I have my doubts.
What I would like to see are some cars without all the useless gadgets. I don't want a touch screen. It is distracting. And given that nearly everything is controlled by the touch screen, God help you if it stops working. It's not like the old days where, say, your tachometer stopped working. The rest of the gauges would work and you could fix it - cheaply - at your leisure. Over the next 5-6 years you're going to see a lot of these touch screens start to fail and it won't be like putting in a new iPad. These things will cost thousands to replace. My guess would be $6000 and up for the fancier ones. Same thing with the 10 speed transmissions. When those things start to fail it might cost more than the car is worth at that point to replace it.
All in the name of good gas mileage. A noble cause but we are creating a generation of un-repairable cars. We are fixing one problem only to create another.
Agreed. That's why I switched to Linux :-)
Ellison was initially a big critic of cloud computing and famously boasted that it would be a flop. Now that a lot of companies have embraced it, Oracle is left scrambling. Workday, Amazon, Google, Microsoft...they all have a huge head start.
If this keeps up poor old Larry is going to have to sell off one of his Hawaiian islands or a couple of Malibu estates...oh the humanity!
I suppose we could debate how successful it will be but at least he's stepping up and trying to help. Interestingly he opened the school in his home town, not his new digs in LA. In contrast, I don't recall Michael Jordan doing a damn thing for the underprivileged in Brooklyn (his hometown). Magic Johnson? Well, he opened a bunch of restaurants in East LA but this is a for profit venture.
For the record, I'm not a huge LeBron fan but in this case I think he deserves some credit. He didn't go to college because he was blessed with exceptional sports talent but for the vast, vast majority of these kids there is no sports scholarship in their future. The only way they are getting out of poverty is through education.
The thought of Microsoft and Security being used in the same sentence is laughable.
Meanwhile, user accounts in Windows are still created with Admin rights...BY DEFAULT. And the Windows Registry continues to be a minefield for malware and rootkits. Yeah...give me a call when you get that mess straightened out. Until then, Microsoft will be the last company I would be getting security advice from.
It's not like people are "adopting" anything. If you buy a new PC it's going to come pre-installed with Windows 10, unless it's a MAC. A better indicator would be how many people are buying a Windows 10 disc and voluntarily replacing their current OS with it. I suspect that number is very very low.
"If they want better internet they should move to where it exists." - And contribute to further pollution, traffic and overcrowding of large cities? I don't see how that helps at all. Besides, this is classic blaming the victim reasoning. The problem is not that I chose to live in a rural area. The problem is that the broadband monopolies did not live up to their end of the bargain.
I'll give you an example. Where I live every lot is zoned at one acre minimum. Less than 5 miles away some developer is building a subdivision with thousands of houses shoehorned one beside the other. I choose not to live in an HOA managed neighborhood where the next house is 10 feet from my lot line. The HOA is getting high speed broadband while the acre dwellers are left to fend for ourselves. Luckily, I have a fixed wireless provider that provides about 25MB/sec and that's good enough for Netflix. But I can't get Gigabit speed because Cox Communications won't expand the service to the "rural" area - 5 miles away.
As others have pointed out, the TelCos have been granted this virtual Oligopoly in part because they agreed to service rural areas. They have not held up to their end of the bargain and our governments appear to do nothing about it. Yet another example of a problem caused expressly by our elected officials.
Ha! The kiss of death for the road warrior :-)
But yeah, I got a little sick of clients bringing me in not for my experience or wisdom but to advance some political agenda.
I did consulting for many years. I loved the challenge and variety of the work but hated the travel. Nobody could give me any guarantee that I wouldn't have to travel so I found a local gig. It has its ups and downs but overall I'd rather be sleeping in my own bed every night.
I'll take Incorrect Diagnosis for $200, Alex.
Keep in mind that mortgage interest is not tax deducible in Canada like it is in the good old USA. Neither is property tax and in Toronto it's very high. A lot of big ticket items like cars cost more in Canada and the price of gas is approaching that of Europe. Actually, a lot of things cost more in Canada due to lack of competition compared to the US. So the cost of living is pretty high in Toronto compared to most US cities.
Toronto does have a very good public transit system - when they aren't on strike - so that's a plus. The weather kind of sucks there - long cold winters and short humid summers. Most of Canada is like that with the exception of Vancouver, which is a beautiful city but horrendously expensive.
How is what Google did considered monopolistic practices? First of all, Google does not have a monopoly on mobile phones. Apple is doing just fine in that arena and if you don't like the conditions that Google imposes then go get an iPhone. This is not like the Microsoft case where, at the time, well over 90% of all personal computers were running Windows and there was no viable alternative.
I thought the whole idea of having a "store" to download apps was to help protect users from getting malware on their phones. It is much like the Linux model of Package management where software is housed in a trusted, centralized location and you can download it with a high level of confidence that it is virus free. Contrast that to the Windows model where you go here, there and everywhere to get software. It is especially problematic with "free" software that is frequently laden with spyware. Anyone remember Limewire?
Google has spent a lot of time effort and money enhancing Android. OK, they bought it from someone else but they have improved it greatly. Are they not entitled to make a profit from their store just like Apple does? Samsung and others have profited greatly by piggybacking on Android.
I guess I'm just struggling to see just who the EU is protecting us from.
Amazon is a direct competitor of both Walmart and Microsoft. Walmart on the retail side and MS on the cloud services side. Yes, Walmart's online website sucks but it will get better. If they have proven anything over the years it is that they are tenacious and they know how to make money.
As near as I can tell, AWS is the only profitable division in Amazon. Everything else loses money and yet their stock price is through the roof. Traditional measures like P/E ratio don't seem to count for much in today's market.
Microsoft has been able to turn the corner. They rely less on Windows license revenue and have done a nice job with Azure.
I guess we'll see how it all works out but I think it's a smart move. Amazon is the big dog right now but I'm starting to see some backlash at how big they have become and some of their business practices. This is a smart strategy for both Walmart and Microsoft.
Netflix has to be just loving this. AT&T will turn one of the only remaining traditional TV stations into complete and utter shit. Well, at least it will have plenty of company. Meanwhile watch how subscribers run for the hills as the price goes up and the quality goes down.
AT&T has always been run as a monopoly. They haven't the faintest idea about customer service and now they are going to be in for a very rude awakening. RIP HBO.
"The 4 years shows a person can study, pass an exam." - Perhaps but completely irrelevant in the workplace. To pass an exam one must have the ability to memorize facts. In the workplace this is of little value.
" Read, write and keep time." - I would challenge your assertion about read and write. I have worked with plenty of university grads with absolutely atrocious spelling and grammar. I fail to see how a 4 year degree is a good indicator of ones ability to keep time. Being punctual is something a child can demonstrate. No degree required.
"How they got into university?" - Good question. When applicants are reviewed for admission did you know that preference is given to the children of alumni? Preference is also given based on gender and ethnic background. It's been a long time since university admission was based solely on merit. Recently the University of Chicago announced that SAT scores will become optional. The last remaining truly universal merit based test is being cast aside. I weep for the children of tomorrow.
I hear that Anthony Weiner is open to exploring new opportunities. Does anyone have Matt Lauer or Harvey Weinstein or Charlie Rose on speed dial? Now that the bar has been set sufficient low I'm sure that any of them would be fine candidates.
Here in the good old US of A there are a few cities that have a public transit system that is good enough to get by without having a car. New York city comes to mind. If you live close to the BART line in San Francisco it works well for the daily commute. Maybe Chicago. The T-line in Boston is pretty good.
After that it is a very steep drop off. Public transit really only works if you live and work right downtown of a major city. If you are in the suburbs then forget it. Rightly or wrongly, having a car is seen by some as a symbol of success. In America there is a stigma attached to taking the bus. Most people would prefer the freedom of having their own car and setting their own schedule.
Where I work there is a ride share program but almost nobody uses it. Why? Because I don't want to be sitting in front of someones house waiting for them to get their shit together while my car idles away. Or standing in the hot sun waiting for my ride to show up. Yes, I would probably save some money but for me the freedom is worth more than the few dollars I might save.