Tag: hiring
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Humans are the bottleneck
Human attention is the binding constraint. About 80% of interactive agent session time is spent idle, waiting for a person. Reading all of the output from interactive sessions would take more than half the work week even for non-technical staff. One engineer compared it to babysitting, with every agent demanding attention at the same urgency.…
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Europe problems: not enough bike mechanics
Europe needs 105,000 more bike mechanics by 2032 on top of a 45,000 shortfall today, and the cause is economic: the work is underpaid relative to its skill. Without fixing that, cycling growth stalls, because a bike nobody can repair stops being ridden. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Europe Needs 105,000 More Bike Mechanics by 2032…
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Rage Against the Machine – Perceptive: “They’re going to try two or three things they think will solve everything, which will be thrown out in court,” the official told me following the announcement of Musk’s appointment. “I assume the first thing they’ll do is some kind of hiring freeze, and then, after three months, they’ll…
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Link: Data center staff are aging faster than the equipment
“New skills, such as overseeing and managing SLAs for off-premises workloads, are needed, but people don’t have them. Just 35 percent of survey respondents reported that they did not have any of the hiring or staffing issues identified by Uptime.” Original source: Data center staff are aging faster than the equipment
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Link: Home Depot is launching its biggest tech hiring spree ever to protect its lead over Amazon
“Home Depot plans to add more than 1,000 new hires to its technology teams in 2018” adding to the 2,800 it already has in “technical roles.” Types of roles: “The hires will span roles such as software engineering, user experience design, network engineering and product management, and be located predominately in the company’s Atlanta, Austin…
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Finding talent in tech
My column this month in The Register looks at “the skills gap” most hiring managers see when it comes to tech skill. The suggestions for fixing it are, of course, to fix the framing, expectations, and profile of people you’re looking for. As Andrew Clay Shafer put it: there is no talent shortage. Source: “You…
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Better get a referral
Referrals account for between 30 and 50% of hires in the US. In a paper published earlier this year, researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and MIT studied data from a financial services company, and found that while referrals only made up about 6% of total applications, they resulted in more than…
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