owennoah

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by owennoah 11y ago
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo
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by owennoah 11y ago
The key word in the open house issue is "open" to allow for transparency currently lost in the limited disclosure game that is the modern interview process. That benefits everyone. Not to mention we offer evening events to respect
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by owennoah 11y ago
I think his point is that if someone has cancer and they end up needing to fire them it's going to become an issue for them emotionally. Good, bad or indifferent-- I understand what he's saying, if that is what he is saying. But D
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by owennoah 11y ago
I'm no lawyer but these issues usually fall under "fit"-- which is legal. If there's an email floating around saying, "I think this guy has a mental disorder" and they get sued, yeah there's a case. But it
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by owennoah 11y ago
To that point, friends of mine have had success with this: http://www.thegrowthlist.com/win-over-30-consulting-offers-i...
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by owennoah 11y ago
This is a fair point too, at least in as much as job seekers should be screening employers for a variety of things. Not enough job seekers do that. They just say whatever they think will make the employer happy.
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by owennoah 11y ago
You are both right though. 1) Discrimination is real and should be discouraged and may indeed have affected Michael's chances at finding work but ferreting out discrimination and fixing its isn't a great use of an individual job s
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by owennoah 11y ago
Correct, but unfortunately you will probably never, ever, ever know if this is the case and you would have a hard time proving it anyway so the point is probably moot. The real question is: what can someone who is having trouble finding wor
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by owennoah 11y ago
Dylan, Noah here from the article. Let's put Michael's specific situation aside for a moment. The truth is, neither of us knows WHY he isn't finding work. We each might have our own inklings as to why but there are surely som
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by owennoah 11y ago
"The ability to make good decisions regarding people represents one of the last reliable sources of competitive advantage, since very few organizations are very good at it." ~Peter Drucker
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by owennoah 12y ago
May I ask why? And more what you feel is a good third way?
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by owennoah 12y ago
Right. Good clarification.
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by owennoah 12y ago
I'm Noah, Brooke's partner in crime at Staffup Weekend. To me this has always been an emperor-has-no-clothes situation. People seem to think in terms of "hackathons" whereas we more simply think of things as "doing
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by owennoah 12y ago
Hi, I'm Noah and I head BD for Better Work World, the organization I have started with Brooke to help firms hire the way he did. As for the above comment, this is true but the larger point is that, if the job isn't explicitly a sa