Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Career and Tech Hiring Tips – July 11, 2014

Welcome to CyberCoders' Weekly Roundup! Every week, we handpick the top five stories from around the web that offer great insight into hiring in the tech industry. 

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1. Dream Job Alert: Get Paid to Watch Netflix All Day [Yahoo!]

Love Netflix? The on-demand streaming media company is now hiring a "Tagger." The position would require you to literally watch Netflix all day long based in UK or Ireland. Only 40 lucky people have this coveted role currently.

“It is Taggers’ responsibility to assess the genre, tone and personality of content to determine what viewers might want to watch next, helping the streaming service improve its ‘You might love Critically-Acclaimed-Emotional-Underdog-movies’ type suggestions.”

2. The Most Important Business Skills in 2020 [B2C]

As technology continues to evolve and disrupt all job markets, it's crucial to make sure your skills are evolving with the demands.

This infographic hosted on Business to Community offers some great insight into the future job market in the next 6 years. For instance, the rise of smart machines and systems means repetitive jobs will be obsolete. The rise of big data means cognitive load management is key as well.

3. LinkedIn's Latest App Aims to Reconnect you with Your Contacts  [Read Write Web]

LinkedIn is releasing a new app called LinkedIn Connected, which syncs your contacts more closely with your smartphone calendar.

"Job changes, work anniversaries, and mentions in news articles add up to a customized newsletter about people I know through my world of work," according to the author of the article.

The entire experience is unique and distant from the existing LinkedIn "contacts" feature in that  each of your network members are presented in  "card" format.

4.  10 Most Expensive Cities [CNN Money]

This brief breakdown of the most expensive cities can come in handy for those of you looking for jobs outside of your area. This is also a great thing to keep in mind as you negotiate your salary. A small raise might seem appealing...unless you're moving to a much more expensive New York. Did your city make the list?

5. How LinkedIn Talk itself to Hire the Best People [Quartz]

Compared to glamorous tech companies, like Facebook or Google, LinkedIn didn't really have a very exciting reputation. They found that the best way to compete with other tech companies' perks and rewards was to offer extremely knowledgeable people they can learn from.

“So the first question was, ‘Do we have any tech luminaries?’” says Cadigan. The answer was no. The second question was whether they knew any such people. The team discovered they knew James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language. They invited him in to talk to the staff and hang around. He started bringing his friends, and attracted fresh talent." 

 

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