Archive for the 'Products' Category
- November 10, 2008
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How Recommendations Change Our Lives
I just finished a book titled Super Crunchers, written by Ian Ayres. The theory of the book is that large-dataset analysis is fast becoming the way to make decisions in a variety of fields, from Web analysis to purchasing to criminal justice. Call it the end of human intuition, but the notion is not as overwheming as you might think. The concept of data mining is not new and over the past ten years several major breakthroughs make it possible for real people (like me) to engage in number crunching on the piles of data we keep. All done through smaller, faster computers, more access to data than ever before and easy-to-use analytical software that doesn’t compromise rigor for speed.
An everyday example of this type of data analysis is the kind of recommendations each of us is likely to see each day. Consider some of the following: Continue Reading…
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- Categories: Employee Attraction, Innovation, Products, Technology
- November 7, 2008
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HELP WANTED: 5 Tips for Spicing Up your Job Descriptions
The most important part of a job posting is the job description. It can also be the most difficult to create. In my last Hiring Site entry regarding job postings, we discussed the basic elements of your help wanted invitation. But because what you say in your job description carries so much significance in relation to the kinds of candidates your posting will attract, it seemed appropriate to drill down that topic a little further.
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- Categories: Job Postings, Products
- October 31, 2008
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HELP WANTED: 5 Tips on Job Posting Basics & Getting Better Candidates
Wallpaper peeler, sleep clinic yawn counter, turkey wrangler and parachute tester … are these the best Halloween costumes of 2008? Actually, they are excerpts from a very interesting list of the most unusual jobs current employees admitted to once having which Amy spotlighted earlier this month.
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- Categories: Job Postings, Products
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