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How to Hire with Algorithms

Harvard Business

For organizations interested in the promise of data, we offer five principles for using statistical algorithms to aid the personnel selection process: Pick the right performance metric. Often the right metric will be a combination of characteristics. This means you need to be very clear about how you define success. Other Interests?).

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5 Steps to becoming a Successful IT Consultant

QEmploy

In a nutshell, an IT consultant focuses on advising organizations on the best ways to use information technology (IT) to achieve their business goals. At the same time you are engaging with the target users and reporting before-and-after metrics. First and foremost you need to be adept at interviewing.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Technology Innovation. Information Technology. KPMG CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & RECRUITING. You can expect things to go down like this, should you apply to KPMG: The first step is a phone interview or an interview on campus. Get yourself up to speed and grab an interview prep session here. Georgetown.

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.