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Written by Jason Cowell
August 29, 2017
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How To Write A Résumé That Improves Your Chance Of Being Hired

Uiba is helping our clients and career seekers finally move beyond résumés and ATSs (applicant tracking systems). But if you are submitting your résumé online to a company who’s not yet working with Uiba, here are five things you should be aware of: 1st – ATS... read more

Written by Jason Cowell
August 22, 2017
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Why You Aren’t Getting Hired

You’re qualified for the job. You might even be doing the same job at a different company. You may have interviewed and if so feel you did quite well. In the end, you don’t get hired. Why? Because hiring is risky and Risk. Is. Expensive. Hiring someone entails a... read more

Written by Jason Cowell
August 15, 2017
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Why Meritocracy and Gender Diversity Are Mutually Exclusive.

Gender diversity has a substantial and measurable impact on organizational productivity. Every organization, whether private or public, regardless of industry, should strive towards creating a diverse workforce. There are solutions to help ensure this is achievable... read more

Written by Jason Cowell
August 1, 2017
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No, STEM Skills Won’t Guarantee You A Job. Here’s Why Not.

Since the mid-1990s there’s been an endless stream of articles, newscasts, and speeches about the lack of people pursuing technical or scientific fields and how businesses, the economy, and jobseekers themselves are suffering because of it. These articles and... read more

Written by Jason Cowell
July 25, 2017
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All Hay, No Needle?

It’s fair to say the one resource humanity does not lack at present is access to information. The exponential growth of information being stored and shared across the internet has been a hallmark of the past few decades. The challenge associated... read more

Written by Jason Cowell
June 27, 2017
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Myers-Briggs Is Astrology

OMG! THAT TOTALLY DESCRIBES ME!! The Myers-Briggs test is one of those topics that tend to drive people into a tizzy about whether it’s ‘real’. If you’ve never taken a Myers-Briggs test this is what happens. You’re asked 93 questions. The... read more

Written by Jason Cowell
June 20, 2017
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The View From The Mountaintop

Mr Reynar, director of engineering at Facebook when this article was written, has a pretty straightforward and non-controversial stance on resumes. His advice: “focus on telling a clear story about what you’ve done, and in a cover letter explain why you think... read more

Written by Jason Cowell
June 13, 2017
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Hiring and Firing – Two Sides of the Same Coin

SOMETIMES EVEN VISIONARIES ONLY SEE HALF THE PROBLEM Marc Andreessen, he who created the Netscape Navigator and ushered in the age of the Internet, now runs a very successful venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. From time to time, Marc can be found on social media... read more

Written by Jason Cowell
June 6, 2017
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It’s Time To Rethink The ATS

The house of the rising sun may have been the ruin of many a poor boy, but the ATS (applicant tracking system) has ruined even more promising careers not to mention being the bane of hiring managers and HR officers everywhere. THE ORIGIN Beginning back in the... read more

Written by Jason Cowell
May 30, 2017
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There’s a Whole Lotta Vendors Out There

The labor market is the largest common market on the planet. Almost every single human being throughout recorded history has had to work at some point for someone or some group. The industry segment commonly referred to as Hiring, Staffing, and Development serves this... read more

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