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- Greengoo, on 10/27/2009, -1/+62Every time I see a picture of Mark Zuckerburg I just want to kick his ass.
- pstroll, on 10/28/2009, -2/+29Does anyone actually make anything anymore?
- mjoe, on 10/28/2009, -1/+20yeah i'd love to work for a company that has no revenue
- SumoSniper, on 10/28/2009, -1/+14Nope. The US is fast becoming an economy full of managers. This lack of balance is one of the primary reasons American jobs are hit so hard whenever there is a down economy, because Americans rely so much on outside manufacturing and production.
Look at Australia. Australia avoided the recession almost entirely (we've been going up for months now), because while Australia hardly manufactures anything we've got a lot of natural resources and they're all up for export. It's not to last long though... The trend has already started where US and Chinese companies are buying up the mining and gas industries. And China is even trying to bring in their own workers for this (DEY TOOK R JERBS). - Trigonometron, on 10/28/2009, -1/+128 Hot Companies that are Hiring Now:
1. Army
2. Air Force
3. Marines
4. Navy
5. Secret Service
6. CIA
7. FBI
8. TSA (Those damn guys that take your shoes at the airport) - LordPhoenyx, on 10/28/2009, -1/+9And none of those made any sense in who they wanted,
What are you looking for?
My favorite type of hire is the budding entrepreneur; someone who in a few years will want to start their own thing. They know that with every effort at Slide they are ultimately investing in themselves the most and so tend to be very productive.
I mean WTF does that even mean?
And the one that make least sense
What are you looking for? Meredith Whitney Advisory Group?
Put simply, we are a hyper competitive team of "nice people." We take that very seriously.
She didn't even answer the question.
All that money and they cant even answer a ***** question - Jeegus21, on 10/28/2009, -5/+11The Mint.com CEO sounds like a douche.
- reverman, on 10/28/2009, -3/+8The US really needs to figure out ways to bring manufacturing back. Just saw a stat last week about metal foundries. Currently the US still ranks second in tonnage of casting produced. China produces about three times the amount and is number 1. But here is the amazing thing the US has about 2450 foundries (and shrinking fast) China has 26000 foundies. India was third with about 4500 foundries
- tacojohn48, on 10/28/2009, -0/+5They have become enslaved to buzz words.
- lifeasariver, on 10/28/2009, -1/+5Lawyers, hamburgers, and weapons (I don't know the exact order).
Seriously, I was contemplating this quite recently. Last week I finished a consulting job downtown (Chicago) and decided to wait out the rush hour traffic. And seeing that sea of people I was thinking that the vast majority of them are employed in service companies, some of them may be working for administration/management of manufacturing companies (that are left), many of them in the financial industry (shuffling the debt and funny money around). The way I see it, it's no wonder the economy sucks so bad and the only real change will be for the worse; nobody produces anything anymore, the economy grows only by creating artificial bubbles and injecting "rescue" money (printed on demand).
As SumoSniper said, we are becoming an economy full of managers, or bureaucrats. It is the iron law of bureaucracy on a national scale.
Some of my clients are investing firms; those leeches always stand out and I can never muster any real respect for them. The bosses declare themselves "movers and shakers" and are revered like gods by their staff even if in their whole life most likely have never produced anything of real value.
Or maybe this is what capitalism means and I just don't get it. - shark72, on 10/28/2009, -1/+5I would think long and hard before taking a job at walmart.com. It's just a sad place to visit (their HQ, not their web site -- but come to think of it, their site is pretty sad, too) -- and I've never gotten the impression that people like working there.
- shark72, on 10/28/2009, -1/+5Agreed, but he's right in his advice -- product management, product marketing and business development are indeed three separate sciences, and I'm just as irritated by people who say that they can do all three.
Either way, I checked the mint.com job list and they're not hiring ANY of them. - covertbadger, on 10/28/2009, -0/+4Just because they won't hire YOU, doesn't mean they're not hiring. Take your MBA elsewhere, it should be enough to get you a nice corner office in a cookie-cutter corporation where you can't get hurt.
- tenio, on 10/28/2009, -1/+4...not yahoo
- Mnementh2230, on 10/28/2009, -0/+3If #5 through #7 aren't responding, it's because they see something in your background they don't like. They do criminal background checks, credit history checks, the works. If they're not contacting you, it's because they don't think you're fit for the job.
- tcheck, on 10/28/2009, -2/+5Leave it to Zuckerburg to leave the most ambiguous answer..."I can't offer the total number of positions, but we're hiring all across the company"
- covertbadger, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2Pfft, revenue and profit are so 1980s! Today's modern go-getting company doesn't need a business model or a saleable product. They just live on a neverending stream of investor income, thus solving the problem once and for all. ONCE AND FOR ALL!
- redditgeeklover, on 10/28/2009, -2/+4Finally! I always wanted to WalMart!
- whatthefu, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2That's the way employers talk these days--out of their ass. Good companies are able to say what they're looking for without the frills.
- inactive, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2Working for companies where their revenue is based off of investors? No thanks.
- axalon, on 10/27/2009, -2/+4Jesse Eisenberg is perfect casting for Mark Zuckerburg
- untreadatom, on 10/28/2009, -1/+2Who wants to work for any of those guys?
- pcamp, on 10/28/2009, -2/+3What only 8? fml.
- Kate1240, on 10/28/2009, -1/+2No Goldman Sachs!? I want to work for them so bad!
- untreadatom, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1I would work at Kiva in a heartbeat.
- tacojohn48, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1I would work for anyone of them in a civil position.
- untreadatom, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1As long as you're a civie? WTF? whats the difference?
- cheerfulcynic, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1you know, my parents were in the military & i'd probably consider it under certain circumstances...
except for the part where the military seems to be made up of overly proselytizing christians, and douchebags in general. not to mention the whole vaguely homophobic angle. hard for me to get behind an organization that tolerates so much of that.
meh, i guess i'll be joining one of the "-corps" if i find myself at that much of a want to better the world/serve my country. - Greengoo, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1My god, some of the most elite military and intelligence organizations in the US don't want to hire YOU? We're *****.
- EdThomson, on 10/28/2009, -2/+2Mark Zuckerburg is a *****.
- soupeh, on 10/28/2009, -4/+4I'd like to ask Meredith Whitney if she has any openings I could fill...
- skeptictank, on 10/28/2009, -0/+0Yahoo "news" links suck. If I didn't use a yahoo e-mail address for a throw away I'd never go there.
- Perry558, on 10/28/2009, -3/+2mmm.
- bm8631, on 10/28/2009, -3/+2#5 - #7: hiring right now? Pssh, yeah right. I've applied to several positions with each of these guys over the last couple years and haven't heard a word. It's like my applications go into the government-sponsored bottomless hole called USAJobs.com. I guess they don't need a person with a BA in criminal justice, MBA, and IT experience?
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