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23 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
What do you or your company primarily look for in new hires?
It's interesting... whatever people who don't work in finance tell me, I almost always get the opposite result when I do these surveys.
Related poll here:



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It's interesting to note that most of the feedback I've received about this survey is based on people's personal experience rather than on the problematic methodology of the survey itself (self-reported data, biased samples).

IMO, methodology > anecdote, but to each his own!

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