E-mail turned forty years old in October. MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message in October 1971 while he was working on a military communications network. He was modifying a program that allowed messages to be sent between … Continue reading
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Holiday Week Chatter # 6 – Would Mahatma Gandhi Have Made a Good Software Engineer?
Posted by Jason Averbook Dec 29, 2011
This week, there’s been quite a bit of chatter going on about some of the oddest interview questions of 2011. The long-standing tradition of “oddball interview question,” is, of course, meant to challenge job candidates to think on the fly, … Continue reading
Holiday Chatter #5 – Are you about to receive an email intervention?
Posted by Jason Averbook Dec 28, 2011
In October of 1971 by a guy named Ray Tomlinson was modifying a program that allowed messages to be sent between users of the same computer (one person to a computer was still science fiction). His program allowed messages to … Continue reading
Friday Fodder: How Today’s High School and College Job Numbers Impact Your Talent Strategy
Posted by Jason Averbook Dec 23, 2011
There is always been chatter about how the younger generation doesn’t know anything, can’t do anything, and hasn’t experienced anything. Well, today’s Friday Fodder may confirm that! Many of you with college-aged kids know all too well the state of … Continue reading
Holiday Chatter #4… Performance Reviews Will Become Child Play
Posted by Jason Averbook Dec 22, 2011
OK, we can all agree the annual performance review is dead, right? The past couple of years have ushered in the Social Enterprise, which has been universally adopted at an unparalleled speed. Big companies and small companies alike are leveraging … Continue reading
Holiday Week Chatter #2… Engagement? Call It “Protecting Your Talent”!
Posted by Jason Averbook Dec 20, 2011
Eric Jackson has an interesting piece over at Forbes.com entitled, Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail to Keep Their Best Talent. Jackson argues that large, established companies have a huge advantage in retaining top talent but generally don’t do … Continue reading
Holiday Week Chatter #1 … Glass(door) Half Empty
Posted by Jason Averbook Dec 19, 2011
It always seems during the few weeks over the holidays, there is a lot of “chatter” about things going on in the world. Some of this chatter is positive, some negative and some worthless to people. I am going to … Continue reading