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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: 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.