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GUEST: Building the right team is hard. What’s more challenging is hiring for several roles at once and trying to determine how all the pieces will come together in the end. You’re trying to assess individual performance, how the team will gel, and where the gaps will be. It’s like drafting a full basketball team […]
Derek Hann Never stop learning. If nothing else, will make it easier for you answer PayPal chief learning officer Derek Hann’s favorite interview question. As CLO, he focuses on implementing learning and development initiatives at the worldwide online payments system company. “I would ask this of any candidate — what did you learn this week?” Hann told […]
There’s no shortage of career advice out there and everyone from your favorite self help gurus to your least favorite in-law thinks they’re an expert on the subject. Good advice — useful, nuanced, and proven — is harder to come by. After all, it’s tough to suss out what employers value in their workforce, or […]
Enlarge (credit: University of Queensland) The Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control System Computer Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued an alert warning of four vulnerabilities in multiple medical molecular imaging systems from Siemens. All of these systems have publicly available exploits that could allow an attacker to execute code remotely—potentially damaging or compromising the safety […]
Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor JUNE 23, 2017 ROCHESTER, N.H. —There’s an essential skill not being taught enough in classrooms today, say a growing number of American educators. That skill is thinking. “Most teachers never really ask students to think very deeply…. Most of what is assigned and tested are things we ask students […]
Only four in 10 feel they have been trained well enough to help, although more than half of employees would go to bosses for help. And 48 per cent of workers have at times felt too anxious or depressed to get up for work in the morning. The survey, by employee engagement company Peakon, also […]
In the world of video games, healing isn’t a glamorous gig. It’s hard enough to get people to do it when everybody’s on equal footing. And when they’re not? Well, then you’ve got a problem on your gnarled, pock-marked, and thoroughly un-healed hands. When you finish an Overwatch competitive mode match, you gain points toward […]
iRobot today announced an update to its iRobot Home app: its Roomba vacuum cleaners are getting new Clean Map reports. You can download the new version now from Google Play and Apple’s App Store. iRobot also announced plans for integration with Amazon Alexa voice activated control. That feature, which allows customers to start, stop, and […]
GUEST: When I started to learn about data science and consider it as a career choice, there was a diagram that I came across regularly and still come across today, in articles and even text books aimed at introducing and educating the world about the “sexiest job of the 21st century.” First created by Drew […]
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