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[...] "When the train cruises at its optimal speed of 500 km/h, the energy it consumes is roughly one third of that of current high-speed trains in commercial service and one sixth of the maglev trains," according to Lai.
The new design of an annular spoiler is one of the highlights of the novel aerotrain. Different from the traditional, vertical spoilers which tend to produce unstable airflow, the annular spoiler can increase the lift-drag ratio by 30% to 40%.'
Source: China, Japan co-developing an 'aerotrain' with wings
Meanwhile, in California's Silicon Valley, recruiters - from across the country, with broken English skills - are trying to force everyone to work as a temporary employee, for hourly wages last seen - by everyone except H1-Bs - in the 1990s.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Thursday April 26 2018, @03:28PM (12 children)
>Meanwhile, in California's Silicon Valley, recruiters - from across the country, with broken English skills - are trying to force everyone to work as a temporary employee, for hourly wages last seen - by everyone except H1-Bs - in the 1990s.
WTF does this have to do with a train developed by China and Japan?
My advice: don't work with recruiters. Period. They're a waste of time, and the "urgent" jobs they try to fill pay peanuts. Work only with internal corporate recruiters (i.e., HR people at the company that has the job), apply for jobs directly at companies, and skip the middlemen. I've tried working with recruiters too many times, and never had a good result.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday April 26 2018, @05:47PM (9 children)
Unfortunately, in some markets (e.g. the one I worked in for most of my career) recruiters have enough of a lock on enough firms that many employers are actually contractually bound to only hire via a particular recruiting company. In that kind of market, refusing to work with recruiters can almost completely remove you from the job market, which is as you can imagine a bit of a problem if you have bills to pay. So sometimes you do have to make a deal with the devil or you can be really screwed (been there, done that).
The key thing to know about recruiters is that they work for nobody but themselves, and don't understand anything at all about the jobs they're hiring for. If you're on the hiring side, they just want to get a body in the seat and get their commission. If you're on the employee side, they just want to get your body in a seat and get their commission. Never, ever, listen to advice from a recruiter about whether to hire/accept a position, but if you like the results of the interaction between candidate and employer (resumes, portfolio reviews, interviews, web searches, etc), accepting the job isn't the dumbest decision you could make.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday April 26 2018, @05:55PM (8 children)
What kind of markets have such exclusivity contracts? That sounds insane. It seems pretty stupid for a corporation to agree to paying some huge portion of an engineer's salary to a recruiter when they can just hire an HR person and do it themselves. And companies using recruiters still have to have HR departments to handle hiring anyway; the only thing the recruiter does for them is save them a little bit of time in putting job ads up on job sites. They still have to weed through the applications from the recruiters and do interviews. The recruiters, as you said, have no idea about anything to do with the actual jobs, so you can't use them to filter candidates.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @06:15PM (2 children)
Obviously the intense hatred of recruiters is misplaced, there are likely many good recruiters that bring in a higher level of candidate and HR doesn't have to sift through 2k resumes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @09:22PM (1 child)
Found the recruiter.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @10:58PM
Yeah, he's on SN trying to scout that angry AC for a job washing MDC's cock. Benefits include: Free protein shake
(Score: 2, Informative) by Sulla on Thursday April 26 2018, @07:55PM
When I first moved to a new city and was trying to get a job in Accounting I found that nearly everything non-government was through temp/temp-to-hire/recruiters and very little direct hire by companies. So you get a job paying 13/hr that the company is paying 30/hr for you to be there but if you were an employee you would make 18/hr. Then if they want to keep you they have to jump through a sea of hoops to get you out of the contract you have with that agency so they find it easier to just get a new temp. At least where I am there are several industries this way. It appears that companies used the agencies when they were a lower cost and their HR/Hiring departments atrophied so now they are stuck if they wanted to go back to the old way.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday April 26 2018, @09:08PM
The company I work for has a huge and extensive HR department, but have to use recruiters because the HR people are barely competent.
The HR department are however astute politicians and wield quite a lot of power. This is common in larger companies unfortunately.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday April 27 2018, @03:12AM (2 children)
Not necessarily:
1. If hiring is something they do less than once a year, then the, say, $40K for the recruiter is cheaper than the $60K+benefits for the HR person, for instance.
2. The person who decides to hire the recruiter may be receiving a great deal of graft from the recruiter, or may be the recruiter's brother-in-law or college buddy.
3. The recruiters often claim to put their candidates through exams and training and such. Sometimes, they're telling the truth (again, been there, done that). Either way, if the hiring manager doesn't understand the job they're trying to fill, the recruiter's (supposed) exams and training appear to offer better screening than anything the hiring manager can come up with.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday April 27 2018, @12:50PM (1 child)
1. If hiring is something they do less than once a year, then the, say, $40K for the recruiter is cheaper than the $60K+benefits for the HR person, for instance.
The HR person isn't just there to hire a single person in a year. They're there to do all the other work that goes along with HR. Posting a listing on a job board is not a full-time job. I was hired (directly) at one job because my hiring manager got his ass on Dice.com, found my resume, thought it looked like a great fit, and simply called me out of the blue. It probably took a couple hours of his time at most. It's not some huge, time-consuming job to get an account on a few job sites and post a job or look at resumes, if you're just looking for one or two people. HR doesn't even have to do it, since they're generally incompetent at finding qualified people (as are recruiters).
3. The recruiters often claim to put their candidates through exams and training and such. Sometimes, they're telling the truth (again, been there, done that). Either way, if the hiring manager doesn't understand the job they're trying to fill
If the hiring manager is this incompetent about the job of the person who they'd be managing, and they think some loser who has no engineering degree is better for selecting an experienced engineer than they are, that's not a company you want to work for.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday April 27 2018, @02:10PM
How many resumes have you sifted through, out of curiosity? Because I've been on the hiring side of this, and there is real work involved in going through all of them. There are even some management books that advise you to take your stack of resumes and immediately throw half of them in the trash unread, because the odds are that you'll find an equally good candidate in the half you read.
The best job I've ever had was a situation like this. They knew that the person they'd had in the job before me wasn't up to the task, and the contracting firms they'd previously hired also weren't able to make things better, and the hiring manager was probably the most technically skilled person they had and was in over their head too. They hired me as the only programmer in the shop, I spent the first couple of months fixing their many glaring problems, and for the remainder of my time working there I was trusted to the point where I could do pretty much whatever I wanted however I wanted. I even got a private office, could sometimes work from home, and there was no expectation of overtime or on-call responsibilities.
Oh, and a recruiter was involved in that transaction.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday April 26 2018, @06:08PM
California has a bullet train too. But it doesn't go to Silicon Valley. You'd think they'd put it in Silicon Valley, right? They put it in Central Valley. And it goes from Central Valley to Central Valley. It goes to Fresno -- great town, I have so many fans there, I did a terrific rally there. So many beautiful farmers, and beautiful farms there, they don't need the bullet train. It's a TRAIN TO NOWHERE. Dumb! And so expensive.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 26 2018, @10:57PM
Wrong focus. It is not the "recruiters" that matters.
Two points as the answer to your WTF:
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** yes, I know about the driverless car R&D. The "efficiency of transportation" contrast still applies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford