This
article analyses how hiring companies make deductions about hiring prospective employees. Evolv is a firm that monitors and evaluates data for recruitment
purposes. Evolv suggests some alternative methods of evaluating a prospective employee. The article suggests it has analyzed 3m data points from over 30,000
employees. It has compared qualities of candidates with those of existing workers,
to establish which traits work best for various jobs to meet their criteria.
Their
analysis came up with some interesting results. The analysis found that prospective employees who go through the hassle of installing web browsers are
better job applicants as compared to those who use browsers that are already
installed (such as Google Chrome and Firefox) in their computers (i.e. Internet
Explorer on Windows and Safari on Mac computers).
Some
of their other findings also suggested that candidates who used one or two
social networking sites had the tendency to stay in their jobs for longer as
opposed to the one that use four or more social networks.
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It is interesting to find these
details for college students who are applying for jobs.
2 comments:
This seems a bit arbitrary to me. Some people may just have a preference for different web browsers or be less well-versed in the different browsers available. Personally, I have installed Firefox and Chrome on my computer and am comfortable using them, but I prefer Safari. So their analysis seems a bit contrived. It is interesting to see how far the technology craze stretches though, that there is a study on a topic like this.
I am not sure how the use of different numbers of social networking sites changes how long a person stays at a certain job. I suppose that if a job is not exactly what the person is looking for and they have more of an opportunity to find a better option (more networking sites), they would take it. I also don't understand why using a different browser would change how good of an applicant a person is. Maybe this is actually referring to a person's ability to understand computers and learn technology rather than their use of different web browsers.
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