Thread by @trylks

HR departments highly scientific algorithms may be (very accurately and systematically) selecting for lemons, discarding peaches

Perfect example of kakonomy in many levels: HR, executives, candidates, managers,… take any two

If you make questions for a job interview without due attention, you may ask something different from what you think you are asking, and you will effectively filter out people that know better than you.

Please do, otherwise meetings will be very frustrating later on.

If you want to do new things, you have to be your own boss

Work 9 to 5 on boring repetitive tasks to pay the bills, then be your own boss to grow

HR depts will rarely risk putting you on something new, they will tell you to do what you have already done

How to find a job:

1. Do the job you want to do
2. Find a way to monetize it
3. Forget about finding another job for a worse boss, you already created a job with the best possible boss: yourself

Doing what has been done before or what someone else tells you to do lacks interest. Do something nobody has done before. Initially, you may not know how to do it, just figure it out.

This is not a radical or genius idea, it is just the normal approach. Deal with it, and make the most of it ASAP. Life is short

Recruiting (in some cases HR) wins when hiring, doesn't lose by turnover

Employees may find greater benefits in moving rather than staying

Incentives are on increasing the speed of replacement of employees. Great metrics, and poor quality

The "can do attitude" that HR wants is just coffee overdose

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This is a good thread:

Parent thread

Choose leaders the opposite of the current bias towards excess of self-confidence. It ends up ruining your organizations due to alienation of your workers and poor decision making, directly connected to Dunning-Kruger, correlated with gender biases.

Maybe job interviews should try to select for more grumpy people

getpocket.com/explore/item/w…

"we are searching for people with experience in industry and a strong publication track"

i.e.

"We are searching for people that were able to ignore their manager's requests to make their CV look better and have meetings with people out of their org"

If 1% of what people write in their CVs were true, we would be living in an incredible age of wonders