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Comment by titanomachy

13 hours ago

So do you think there's no useful strategies to identify highly motivated prospective employees, or just that these aren't good ones?

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tptacek  12 hours ago

I'm not optimistic about scalable strategies to identify "motivated" employees, but I'm not certain. I am pretty certain these strategies are bad. They're what everybody did in the mid-2000s.

  • kasey_junk  6 hours ago

    One of the problems is the idea that "motivated" or even "capable" is some sort of intrinsic property of a person. Those things ebb and flow based on tons of variables, from stuff going on at home to decisions made by management.