Posts Tagged ‘jobs’
The Wall Street Journal has a fun piece on funny or awkward farewell emails people have written to their coworkers upon departure from their employer: At the law firm Alston & Bird, one departing associate baffled his colleagues by sending everyone a black-and-white photo of himself, with only his name and start and quit dates [...]
Filed under: links of the day | Leave a Comment
Tags: corporate culture, employment, farewell, jobs, letter
Tyler Cowen has a simple theory why young people tend to go into law, finance, and consulting: The age structure of achievement is being ratcheted upward, due to specialization and the growth of knowledge. Mathematicians used to prove theorems at age 20, now it happens at age 30, because there is so much to learn [...]
Filed under: links of the day | Leave a Comment
Tags: data, economy, finance, jobs, Tyler Cowen
Andrei Alexandrescu, a self-professed hacker and current employee at Facebook, is interviewed by Server Side Magazine and answers what software/tools they use at Facebook. It’s a Linux world, with a lot of tools developed in-house: Each Facebook engineer gets a choice of MacBook or Windows laptop, plus the invariable 30′ monitor (yum). But development is [...]
Filed under: links of the day | Leave a Comment
Tags: Facebook, jobs, Silicon Valley, software
This piece in today’s NYT’s Dealbook has generated a flurry of comments. It’s about young people losing their jobs from investment banks and other financial firms. Read the entire piece here and then judge for yourself… The money quote: Sam Meek, 27, who was laid off in September when his Connecticut hedge fund decided to [...]
Filed under: links of the day, reading | Leave a Comment
Tags: economy, finance, jobs, Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street
How Elite Firms Hire
Lauren A. Rivera’s paper “Ivies, Extracurriculars, and Exclusion: Elite Employers’ Use of Educational Credentials” provides unprecented clues about the way elite firms screen resumes, conduct interviews, and hire. The paper is gated, but here is the abstract: Although a robust literature has demonstrated a positive relationship between education and socio-economic attainment, the processes through which [...]
Filed under: links of the day, reading | Leave a Comment
Tags: education, hiring, how elite firms hire, jobs, resume
Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the 2011 NBA Champions Dallas Mavericks, has an unorthodox view on how to create jobs in America. Forget the proposals by the Republicans and Democrats, he argues, and focus at the source: American corporations. What do they need to create jobs? How is this for a revolutionary thought: Companies [...]
Filed under: reading | 1 Comment
Tags: economy, jobs, Mark Cuban
Here’s what I have been reading over the weekend: (1) “Apple IPad’s Debut-Weekend Sales May Be Surpassing Estimates” [Business Week] – the numbers are in, and it looks like Apple had a spectacular weekend in terms of iPad sales. The iPad’s initial sales may have reached 700,000 units, Piper Jaffray & Co.’s Gene Munster said [...]
Filed under: internet, links of the day | 1 Comment
Tags: Apple, Apple sales, iPad, jobs, jonah lehrer, photography, san francisco MOMA, superstar effect, tiger woods, unpaid internships
