Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Career and Tech Hiring Tips – September 19, 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. Resume Advice from Google's HR Chief (LinkedIn Pulse)

Lazlo Bock, SVP of People Operations at Google laid out the five biggest, repeated resume mistakes he sees.

"What's most depressing is that I can tell from the resumes that many of these are good, even great, people. But in a fiercely competitive labor market, hiring managers don't need to compromise on quality. All it takes is one small mistake and a manager will reject an otherwise interesting candidate," he writes.

The top five mistakes include:

• Typos
• Length
• Formatting
• Confidential information
• Lies

2. People Who Work in Tech Say These are the Top Colleges in America (Business Insider)

Business Insider surveyed 1,500 hiring managers in the tech industry and asked them: Which top colleges do you think produce the most successful professionals?  Herea re the top five:

1. Stanford University 2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3. California Institute of Technology 4. Princeton University 5. Harvard University

3. Does Silicon Valley Have a Contract-Worker Problem? (NY Mag)

Many new Silicon Valley startups, like Uber, Homejoy, Postmates, Spoonrocket, TaskRabbit, DoorDash, Washio, rely on contract-workers to carry out their operations. It makes sense for them: They're cheaper than hourly workers if you account for vacations, breaks and the cost of potentially firing an underperforming worker.

This term "1099 economy" was heard around year's TechCrunch Disrupt event. Still, some companies aren't complying with the laws that offer true independence to contract-workers. For instance, contract-workers have the right to create their own schedules.

"When companies begin to control their contractors as if they were employees, trouble often follows. Recently, a group of New York–based Uber drivers threatened to quit the service if Uber continued to penalize them for declining lower-cost UberX fares in favor of black-car fares that would earn them more money."

4. Why an MIT Student Chose an Obscure Internship Over Silicon Valley (Fast Company)

Most everyone who graduates from MIT heads to the tech mecca to get their feet wet.

Not Harry Rein.

Rein packed his bags and head off into the vibrant city of Salt Lake City, Utah to embark on a summer fellowship at Vivint, a company revolutionizing smart homes.

Rather than following the heard, "Vivint offered something unique: the opportunity to help shape the next multibillion-dollar industry and the opportunity to define the smart home," Rein writes.

5. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Steps Down (Forbes)

The billionaire and founder of the biggest enterprise technology is stepping down to CTO of Oracle. Presidents Safra Catz and Mark Hurd will take over as chief executives of Oracle.

"Catz, also currently chief financial officer, will oversee manufacturing, finance, and legal functions, while Hurd will oversee sales, service and vertical industry global business units. Software and hardware engineering functions will still report to Ellison.