HR, Recruiting, and Workforce Business Ideas

"Look, maybe it’s just that the country we live in is different. But in mine, there’s something called a vocational training program (FP). It’s basically a two-year public program where you can learn the more practical side of working as a programmer. There are programs for systems administration, AI, web development, and so on. And people who complete these programs are realizing that they can't find jobs because the job market is full of people with programming skills. That’s why companies ask for years of experience. Because they can. They will find someone willing to take a junior position even though they’re not actually a junior. And juniors are willing to take almost anything—even minimum wage—just to get that experience. And you say, “Either you and I are living in completely different worlds, or you haven’t looked at junior developer job postings in a long time.” But the thing is: you haven’t even gotten a job interview. You said, “My applications go straight into the trash.” You’re missing this part. The fact that something isn’t in the job description doesn’t mean it doesn’t count. The problem is that you’re looking at jobs that ask for experience. You can throw your degree in the trash if you already have experience, but if you don’t, then it’s a completely different matter."

"Because I think the biggest problem in scaling is internal misalignment I think that's what hurts companies the most the founder is no longer able to do these sort of all hands casually whenever is needed they're off on the road raising money there's layers and layers of new people a couple things one is the founder has to be relentless about communicating the behavioral values that drive the culture what are the normative behaviors that are essential in the way we will treat each other like here's one weird one Walmart had the sundown rule you had to get back to somebody by the end of the day even if it was the answer is I don't know yet okay I like it what are your norms of behavior that are essential to the culture and then you've got to put those everywhere so people realize these are the five things we will not trade off and when you see cultural icons that live up to that reward"