Sorry to ask anyone to read the NYT, but thought this was very interesting.
-XC
"It's an objective system because I get to decide who gets what ranking and what criteria we are ranking these applicants on". That's what I got out of the system they have set up and how lead readers function. I realize that we're in a globalized and interconnected world, but why is there such an emphasis on "leadership"? It's not even something you can get a good sense of from reading an application. Secondly, not everybody needs to be a leader. It's the same thing with everybody having to be STEM major or being useless to society. Everybody needs a cook or a plumber just as bad as an Engineer. Same goes for a leader.
I think I read somewhere that one of the most important jobs for our society to run is of that in sanitation, a statement I can mostly agree with. Imagine if no one picked up your trash whilst living in NY? Shit would get hectic yo.
Interesting article. As someone who is currently in the process of college applications, it is disheartening to know that such "objective" systems come down to depending on the reader who your application gets assigned to. Surely there must be some better system?
This is really interesting. Not on the same level, but I applied for a job a few weeks back, a work-from-home sort of deal, contracting to a company who tested software etc for other, larger companies. The job was rating landing pages from a particular search engine in relation to the search, and as much as they explained the criteria (authenticity, scope, accuracy, freshness, etc) it still seemed really subjective. I'd rate a page as "fair" for being potentially relevant but probably not what the user was looking for, and I'd be told that it should probably be "good" because it was a reliable source, etc. Same sort of 'objective' system I'm getting from this essay.
It's interesting that the same tactic, for want of a better word, is used by both. I'm not sure yet, waiting to hear back from the company. Need to go through a round of examinations of the same sort, which is bound to be a whole heap of fun.