There's an old, old joke: A man jumps into a taxi and starts chatting to the driver about philosophy. The taxi driver turns to him and says, “Are you a Catholic or a Protestant?” The man says, “Well, I'm an atheist.” The taxi driver thinks for a moment and says “OK, but is it the Catholic God or the Protestant God that you don't believe in?” I've written before about the UK's rapid loss of faith, but it is always interesting to have statistics confirmed by lived experience. A few…
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I'm going to let you in to three TOP SECRET rules for getting hired. These are the hidden techniques used by TOP interviewers… Never Tell The Candidates The Rules Of Success I read an infuriating blog post recently: "If someone doesn't send a thank you email, don't hire them". This is a great way to limit your talent pool. Personally, I've been hiring for a dozen years, and I've never received a thank-you email. So we can already show there is a cultural disparity here. Did you tell the c…
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One of my first jobs was as a nudity moderator for Vodafone. People would send in photos and videos and I'd have to manually classify whether they featured nudity or were otherwise unacceptable. It was a bizarre job - one I've discussed before - but today, wouldn't we just throw an AI at it? I recently read "How AI/ML algorithms see nudity in images - Comparison of image moderation APIs by Microsoft, Google, Amazon and, Clarifai" - a blog post by DataTurks. In it, they use a training set of…
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I'm lucky enough to get invited to speak at a variety of conferences around the world. After accepting a speaking invitation, and checking I'm not on an all-male line-up, I usually make one of the following requests to the organisers. Thanks for inviting me. Can you let me know if the venue is wheelchair accessible? So excited to be there. What are the crèche facilities going to be? Looking forward to speaking. Will you be providing a sign-language interpreter? Can't wait to see you. Please …
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