The Things I Find

From the Freakonomics Blog:

…and received roughly 200 resumes. Many of them are impressive. From an anthropological standpoint, nearly every single one is interesting, just to see the kind of skills and traits that people use as employment signals.

This is what I love about the Internet - every now and again, you run into someone who thinks so differently about such mundane things as dot points on a resume. My resume’s just a laundry list of skills and accomplishments to be matched against a job - purely technical. There’s a human side to hiring, sure - but that comes out in the interview. I’d never thought of it in terms of signals sent between animals; the way a zoologist thinks about, say, lekking behaviour.

Freakonomics is an awesome book, by the way.