Hiring the Newly Minted

Unsolicited advice for newly minted paediatricians.

Dick, as he was universally known, was recruited from Sick Kids in Toronto to McGill and the MCH in 1986 to be Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Pediatrician-in-Chief of the Montreal Children's Hospital. Then Dean Cruess, a long-time friend, was instrumental in this recruitment. Dick served a full 10-year term in these positions. He was a man of impeccable manners and demeanor, some wou...

Oh! The places you'll go: suggestions for newly minted doctors of nursing practice.

Hiring in the Software Industry

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Analysis of "Hiring Above the Median": A "Lake Wobegon" Strategy for The Hiring Problem

The hiring problem is a recent research problem, which has been introduced and studied first by Broder et al. [2] in 2008. It belongs to the category of on-line decision making under uncertainty. In such kind of research, the input is a sequence of instances and a decision must be taken for each instance depending on the instances seen so far while no information on the future is available. The...

The Hiring Problem and Permutations

The hiring problem has been recently introduced by Broder et al. in last year’s ACM-SIAM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2008), as a simple model for decision making under uncertainty. Candidates are interviewed in a sequential fashion, each one endowed with a quality score, and decisions to hire or discard them must be taken on the fly. The goal is to maintain a good rate of hiring while im...