Post AjSDdatFTWrBrD3ye8 by dorian@retro.social
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 (DIR) Post #AjSBZFFPne5FfSEJLk by ajroach42@retro.social
       2024-06-30T12:48:45Z
       
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       Hi corporations 👋 If you're using performance in education as your first (or only) metric when evaluating potential candidates, you're engaged in class warfare.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjSC3gKze0lgNCLuWe by tayledras@mastodon.social
       2024-06-30T12:54:14Z
       
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       @ajroach42 From personal experience, I think most corporations explicitly (they will tell you if asked) or implicitly (they know but don't consider it, merely "reap the benefits") that it's class warfare.But they just don't care.There's money to be made in performance metrics, and there's money to be made exploiting education.<< Bring back life-form. Priority one. All other priorities rescinded. >>"I thought it was pretty clear to me."
       
 (DIR) Post #AjSCYjhZBdcrmeicT2 by ajroach42@retro.social
       2024-06-30T12:59:52Z
       
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       You're also engaged in a losing battle. You're not sourcing the smartest candidates. You're not sourcing the hardest working candidates. When you prioritize education over everything else you're sourcing the candidates who did the best in school. That's it. Why did they do well in school? It doesn't matter! You're excluding people who didn't do well in school, assuming that they would also not do well at your job. That's farsical. Performance in school doesn't directly correlate to job performance. My best coworkers have been dropouts. My worst coworkers were ivy league graduates. Neither of those facts has anything to do with their school performance.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjSCp501lnIeTG9ANk by ajroach42@retro.social
       2024-06-30T13:02:50Z
       
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       Why does someone do poorly in school? There are lots of possible reasons, but at the top of the list is poverty. Few companies would survive if they claimed to exclude poor people from their hiring pool, but they get rewarded when they do it by proxy.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjSDdatFTWrBrD3ye8 by dorian@retro.social
       2024-06-30T13:11:56Z
       
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       @ajroach42 nearly 100% of the people I've known who went to the big name school in our state have an air of feeling like they are superior. It's annoying as fuck.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjVZkF2nsR6sb1zGNc by mmalc@mastodon.social
       2024-07-02T04:03:46Z
       
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       @ajroach42 As ever…https://www.boredpanda.com/privilege-explanation-comic-strip-on-a-plate-toby-morris/
       
 (DIR) Post #AjVaPtnXGCfcrfi2gy by for4four@hachyderm.io
       2024-07-02T04:11:18Z
       
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       @ajroach42 "Doing well in school" is nearly meaningless. Some schools at are difficult; many schools are easy. A school with low income students is often less rigorous because teachers see that homework simply cannot be very heavy.Are employers turning away a machinist applicant because she flunked history while acing shop? Probably not.Grades don't matter much compared to job experience. Got D's while holding down two part-time jobs with nice comments from previous bosses? You're hired.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjVtuRSkYg8f5gGTBY by ThienThai@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2024-07-02T07:49:44Z
       
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       @ajroach42 I think there are correlation between who did good in school vs did good in job. It doesn't have to be correct for all the case. It only need to be correct for most of the case. That why corpo still using academic result to find candidate. It works, for most of the time. if it didn;t work, then they already stop using it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjWOFstGm798rWoFxg by ajroach42@retro.social
       2024-07-02T13:29:42Z
       
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       @ThienThai I think that's nieve at best.