babyfinland posted:im going to the top school in the world for my field of study and have the support of the best scholars in the field.]
rhizzone college of posting doesnt actually count
elemennop posted:roseweird posted:elummenopi how long have you been doing martial arts
i did like 5 years of taekwando as a youngster, which was mostly bullshit but i could do crazy reverse kicks and shit, but i stopped and all my hip flexibility is gone. i started getting into general mma shit in the past few months. been training bjj 2x a week, and sparring with friend that's a kickboxer.
yo nigga what kinds of moves you know now? how effective is the implementation of WWE moves (from the attitude era, none of this contemporary kurt ankle bullshit 'wrestling' I'm talking straight up functional fighting shit ala stonecold/undertaker) for teaching some fool a lesson after they butt in line? thanks
innsmouthful posted:no wonder none of you fuckers have jobs... damn
I have 2.7 jobs tyvm
getfiscal posted:tom: not a slav, not a christian. nuff said.
That's all anyone ever needs to know.
AmericanNazbro posted:elemennop posted:roseweird posted:elummenopi how long have you been doing martial arts
i did like 5 years of taekwando as a youngster, which was mostly bullshit but i could do crazy reverse kicks and shit, but i stopped and all my hip flexibility is gone. i started getting into general mma shit in the past few months. been training bjj 2x a week, and sparring with friend that's a kickboxer.
yo nigga what kinds of moves you know now? how effective is the implementation of WWE moves (from the attitude era, none of this contemporary kurt ankle bullshit 'wrestling' I'm talking straight up functional fighting shit ala stonecold/undertaker) for teaching some fool a lesson after they butt in line? thanks
undertaker is undefeated at wrestlemania, so you couldn't go wrong with copying him
elemennop posted:that's the exact reason i got bored with tkd, i just wanted to fight not listen to a bunch of generic eastern philosophy and spend all our time polishing our forms.
lol if you think you can consistently stomp dudes while neglecting your spirituality
solzhesnitchin posted:elemennop posted:that's the exact reason i got bored with tkd, i just wanted to fight not listen to a bunch of generic eastern philosophy and spend all our time polishing our forms.
lol if you think you can consistently stomp dudes while neglecting your spirituality
uh, have you seen interviews with any mma fighters? they're all hardcore christians, which is why i started going to church, not listen to buddhist koans.
One of the best ways to understand the changing labor market is to talk to the co-founders of HireArt (www.hireart.com): Eleonora Sharef, 27, a veteran of McKinsey; and Nick Sedlet, 28, a math whiz who left Goldman Sachs. Their start-up was designed to bridge the divide between job-seekers and job-creators.
“The market is broken on both sides,” explained Sharef. “Many applicants don’t have the skills that employers are seeking, and don’t know how to get them. But employers also ... have unrealistic expectations.” They’re all “looking for purple unicorns: the perfect match. They don’t want to train you, and they expect you to be overqualified.” In the new economy, “you have to prove yourself, and we’re an avenue for candidates to do that,” said Sharef. “A degree document is no longer a proxy for the competency employers need.” Too many of the “skills you need in the workplace today are not being taught by colleges.”
The way HireArt works, explained Sharef (who was my daughter’s college roommate), is that clients — from big companies, like Cisco, Safeway and Airbnb, to small family firms — come with a job description and then HireArt designs online written and video tests relevant for that job. Then HireArt culls through the results and offers up the most promising applicants to the company, which chooses among them.
With 50,000 registered job-seekers on HireArt’s platform, the company receives about 500 applicants per job opening, said Sharef, adding: “While it’s great that the Internet allows people to apply to lots of jobs, it has led to some very unhealthy behavior. Job-seekers tell me that they apply to as many as 500 jobs in four to five months without doing almost any research. One candidate told me he had written a computer program that allowed him to auto-apply to every single job on Craigslist in a certain city. Given that candidates don’t self-select, recruiters think of résumés as ‘mostly spam,’ and their approach is to ‘wade through the mess’ to find the treasures. Of these, only one person gets hired — one out of 500 — so the ‘success rate’ is very low for us and for our candidates.”
How are people tested? HireArt asks candidates to do tasks that mimic the work they would do on the job. If it is for a Web analytics job, HireArt might ask: “You are hired as the marketing manager at an e-commerce company and asked to set up a Web site analytics system. What are the key performance indicators you would measure? How would you measure them?”
Or, if you want to be a social media manager, said Sharef, “you will have to demonstrate familiarity with Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, HTML, On-Page SEO and Key Word Analysis.” Sample question: “Kanye West just released a new fashion collection. You can see it here. Imagine you had to write a tweet promoting this collection. What would your tweet be?” Someone applying for a sales job would have to record a sales pitch over video.
Added Sharef: “What surprises me most about people’s skills is how poor their writing and grammar are, even for college graduates. If we can’t get the basics right, there is a real problem.” Still, she adds, HireArt sees many talented people who are just “confused about what jobs they are qualified for, what jobs are out there and where they fit in.”
So what does she advise? Sharef pointed to one applicant, a Detroit woman who had worked as a cashier at Borders. She realized that that had no future, so she taught herself Excel. “We gave her a very rigorous test, and she outscored people who had gone to Stanford and Harvard. She ended up as a top applicant for a job that, on paper, she was completely unqualified for.”
People get rejected for jobs for two main reasons, said Sharef. One, “you’re not showing the employer how you will help them add value,” and, two, “you don’t know what you want, and it comes through because you have not learned the skills that are needed.” The most successful job candidates, she added, are “inventors and solution-finders,” who are relentlessly “entrepreneurial” because they understand that many employers today don’t care about your résumé, degree or how you got your knowledge, but only what you can do and what you can continuously reinvent yourself to do.
innsmouthful posted:So what does she advise? Sharef pointed to one applicant, a Detroit woman who had worked as a cashier at Borders. She realized that that had no future, so she taught herself Excel. “We gave her a very rigorous test, and she outscored people who had gone to Stanford and Harvard. She ended up as a top applicant for a job that, on paper, she was completely unqualified for.”
she still works at the bookstore but she has a little plaque in her bedroom that commemorates her time as a 'top applicant' for a job that ultimately went to an unpaid intern.
innsmouthful posted:you colossal faggots.
Please don't use hateful language on our friend website.
getfiscal posted:Please don't use hateful language on our friend website.
no such thing as friends in the competition to Get A Job. it's a cut no cut world.
getfiscal posted:she still works at the bookstore
borders went bankrupt years ago and there's no way they kept even a single location in detroit open lmao
drwhat posted:bank job has taken a new turn, my distractions aren't working anymore and i am losing my shit. i don't think i can allow myself to fuck it up though so i think my only choice is going to be more distractions. turn up the volume. do more things. be "serious". the last time i tried this was in high school and i had a sort of breakdown after a few months, which was really cool. have the intervening 13 years helped at all, i wonder. probably not. time to find out
i fell in love with someone who's just as black and empty as me and everything else and it's going about as well as one might expect given that description
i expect to be crying hysterically while on seven different drugs by january or so... OR... something else will happen. i am not sure what the something else will be. hopefully global economic collapse
get job everyone! it's great. i love job. i haven't gone to bed before 5 am in a week because i can't stand anything. love. job. love job.
you need to get serious about cultivating healthy sleep cycles, eating habits, and exercise routines. stress is greatly amplified by these kind of unhealthy patterns. you also need to start abstaining from recreational drugs and alcohol. these are the two concrete approaches you can take that do not involve obsession or burning out, and is more than just the old "try to act happy and you'll be happy" line.
maybe you could go to your cushy job's HR department and tell them you're having difficulty managing your stress and do they have any non-pharmacological ideas, beside the sleeping and eating and no drinking stuff, to improve your mental health.
this job may pay your family's bills today but if you kill yourself in three months your family receives less money overall than if you switched careers and lived. you don't have to leap immediately from high-frequency trading to anarchist bake sale coordinator. you could get a job that is say, 80% as evil and makes you 80% of the money, and see how you fit into that pair of pants. look at khamsek busting her ass for the union, even though things like dining and construction should be fucking illegal given the state of the biosphere. i pamper vermin who eat each others' shit and still wake up every morning with the fury of nobility pounding in my temples. it doesn't take much.
elemennop posted:solzhesnitchin posted:elemennop posted:that's the exact reason i got bored with tkd, i just wanted to fight not listen to a bunch of generic eastern philosophy and spend all our time polishing our forms.
lol if you think you can consistently stomp dudes while neglecting your spirituality
uh, have you seen interviews with any mma fighters? they're all hardcore christians, which is why i started going to church, not listen to buddhist koans.
fuckingg fiune don't let me do html embedding well theres this video from this comedy central show where its a prefight trash talk parody and one guy keeps talking about god and he's crazy and its pretty funny
gwap posted:what is the most prestigious school an lf'er has gone to
i dropped out of edinburgh uni after like 5 months if that counts
elemennop posted:uh, have you seen interviews with any mma fighters?
well my cousin is friends with chuck liddell, so i guess you could say that i know a thing or two about seeing my opponent cast down before me, blood pouring down his swollen, mottled cheeks, with a look of dread in his eyes as i stride forward to deliver the finishing blows. or perhaps it is a look of longing, borne of a emptiness deep within that had been hitherto hidden from him through the intricate play of mimetic desire, an emptiness that can only be filled by me repeated smashing my forearm into his temple?
