Brendan Foody: belief

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…Some of my friends think that mentors and nepotism will make a good comeback. They say everyone will submit a perfect cover letter, have an optimized LinkedIn profile. They’ll even have practiced with an AI doing the interview. They won’t all get up to speed, but a lot of them will, and there’ll be this large mass of apparently pretty qualified candidates. What you’ll actually do is resort to the old tried and true. Do you know this guy’s uncle, or someone else who can recommend them? Agree? Disagree? I think in some companies and industries, that will happen. I agree with it. My hope is that we have models that are helping to run companies in a very thoughtful, efficient way that are data-driven about it, where the models have an eval set of all the performance reviews of people in that given company, and they’re able to make an accurate prediction over whether this reference, or that piece of nepotism should actually be considered, or maybe as a countersignal. That’s my hope, but it’ll probably play out with some combination of both over time. In the AI-run labor market, let’s say, it’s more efficient, but do you think there are fewer second chances, and late bloomers in that world? You get scored too early, so to speak, and then you’re tracked. It’s a bit more like how European schooling systems can differ from American.…

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