An averaged sized company can receive up to a million resumes each year. This is the ‘Never Ending Story’ for a recruiter or HR department. But after hours of skimming and sifting through all the possible-employer-clutter you come to find one particular candidate that is going to greatly help fulfill your…
We're back from Redmond after sponsoring our first industry conference, SourceCon. This was the first industry event we have ever attended and by far the largest marketing expense we've had in our history. To recap, HiringSolved is growing fast. We started this year with a major pivot that left over…
We at HiringSolved are feeling lucky. Good things are happening. Most recently, we have been fortunate enough to be a Platinum sponsor at the upcoming SourceCon in Seattle on Oct 2nd and 3rd. I say it’s been great fortune because we can afford it, and because we have an amazing…
Short version for googlers: if your md devices disappear and mdadm claims to find no superblock, try this: sudo mdadm --examine --scan --config=mdadm.conf >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf As a bootstrapped Big Data startup, we have had to get pretty creative in our approach to our crawler infrastructure. Hence, lots of cheap disks…
When most people think about the idea of an internship, they think of making coffee or running errands-basically starting at the bottom. What separates an internship at a start-up company versus an internship at a big company is the responsibility yet flexibility that you’re given. As a sophomore in college…
There is only one way to describe the atmosphere at Gangplank: relaxed and supportive. Casual Fridays are any day that ends in "y"; jokes are told both at the water cooler and across the office; a pirate flag is hung proudly in the office; and a Micheal Jackson song is…
Is "big data" just a buzz word? As part of our overall effort to socialize i.e. develop a presence on social media. One of our up and coming superstar interns, Brandon Bett, has researched a topic I'm sure you'll enjoy. A look at Big Data over time and its applications…
We're sorry IE8 users, we really do want to work with you... Full disclosure: HiringSolved does not work with IE8 and it never will. This sucks, we know. We have customers who are stuck on XP and IE8 and can't easily use our product because of it. That's painful and…
What if humans were to function more like computers, and computers functioned more like the intelligent, intuitive beings that we're thought to be? Questions like this have been posed from time to time. Perhaps no more dramatically than in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” This cinematic gem…
It’s not been talked about for that long, but long enough to have some serious discussions in boardrooms and some blogs written about it. Big data in HR. Huh, what? For those new to the term big data – it generally refers to a collection of data sets that are…
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