More Girls in Tech, Hiring a Googler, Why Recruiters Think You're Less Desirable, and more!

In a meeting, with a local CEO, she and I got on the topic of women (read: girls) in tech. She was struggling with a way to make tech more "sexy" to girls at a young age. A lightbulb went off when she asked, "how can we empower them to want to build robots, write programs?" "I've actually solved this problem," I stated emphatically. I immediately had her attention…

Year after year, Google has been ranked as one of the top companies to work for, so it’s no surprise that the tech giant receives roughly three million applications per year. With an acceptance rate of 0.2%, you’d have a better chance of getting into Harvard. Google’s careers page makes the process seem quite simple: “Become a Googler in three steps,” it advertises. “Apply. Interview. Decide.” Below those headings, the veil begins to lift: “We interview differently…

The higher you rise on this grid, the more likely you'll get the interview. A recruiter's primary job is to screen out a large group of candidates and narrow down the choices to just a few. Hiring managers are too busy doing their full-time jobs to review the resume of every applicant. They rely on recruiters to do the initial screening in order to save them time...

Some people will do just about anything to find a job. But to set themselves apart from other candidates, the folks on this list went the extra mile, finding bizarre, hilarious, and ingenious ways to get the attention of hiring managers. They utilized advertising and the internet to maximize their exposure, and even used the press to get the word out. Almost everyone succeeded in finding a job. Here are some of the more outrageous approaches people have taken to find work…

A new survey directed by Zety, picks the brains of the hiring managers and recruiters that stand between us and our dream jobs. Unfortunately, in addition to the well-documented biases that keep many executives from calling us back, there are a series of oddly specific ones, like being born with the name Casey Smith for instance…