In the Data Science tradition of deploying new code on Friday, giving it the whole weekend to be broken, we’re pushing out a new version of the bright score code today. As far as the changes go, the nerdy explanation is that we did a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for some of our strongest features […]
If you’re a talent recruiter you know that sifting through resumes is a big pain in the you know what. When you have 1000 resumes to sift through over a few hours, time isn’t on your side – not to mention that after the first 15 minutes of reviewing resumes they start to resemble each other. That’s […]
A study by The Ladders suggests that recruiters look at a resume for an average of six seconds, and primarily scan two areas of a resume – a candidate’s last job and his or her education. That is, a recruiter ends up making a decision based on a small amount of qualifying data absorbed from […]
It all started with, “Hey Anthony, since we’re launching in a few weeks we should probably make the Bright Score infrastructure scalable. We might get a few users.” Anthony, the CTO, wasn’t worried: “No problem — we’ll just use Rightscale. They recently released support for Softlayer (our hosting provider). Rightscale also supports Chef, so we […]
A lot, actually. According to a peer-reviewed study by Jonathan Levav, a professor at Columbia University, an inmate is between two and six times more likely to be released if they are one of the first three prisoners considered in the day versus the last three prisoners considered. After looking at more than 1,000 rulings […]
