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Monday, November 23, 2015
Why Google Doesn't Hire Based On Ivy League Credentials [feedly]
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Why Google Doesn't Hire Based On Ivy League Credentials
// ReadWriteWeb
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One of the world's most sought after employers doesn't care much about Ivy League credentials or a sterling college transcript. "It's one of the flaws in how we assess people," explained Laszlo Bock, Vice President of People Operations at Google Inc. He continues:
We assume that if you went to Harvard, Stanford or MIT that you are smart. We assume that if you got good grades you will do well at work... there is no relationship between where you went to school and how you did five, 10, 15 years into your career. So, we stopped looking at it.
Bock, who sat down with Medium's Steven Levy at the Next Economy conference earlier this month, released new research from Google on why college degrees matter so little to the search giant.
In a blog post, Google claims that 'psychological safety' is one of the foundation factors in the company's best teams. "The safer team members feel with one another, the more likely they are to admit mistakes, to partner, and to take on new roles," Bock explained.
For Google, college degrees and grades, evidently, don't indicate whether employees can perform well in the real world. This isn't to say that Google has given up on higher education. Just last month, the company announced a partnership with an online course provider, Udacity, to offer a low-cost business school alternative to teach startup entrepreneurship.
Google is skirting around traditional universities in the process of pursuing an expanding educational business agenda. If others follow Google's lead, it could portend big changes for the future of higher education.
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| Google Drive plug-in for Microsoft Office Posted: 21 Jul 2015 10:10 AM PDT With Google Drive you can keep all your important files in one place, then open them with your choice of apps and devices. Today, we're offering new ways to work together with Office files, using the Google Drive plug-in for Microsoft Office. With the new Google Drive plug-in, people using Office for Windows can now open their Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents stored in Drive and then save any changes back to Drive once they're done.  If you're working on a document, spreadsheet or presentation that's on your computer, you can also save that file to Google Drive, directly from the Office apps. This is especially useful for sharing files with teams, or for accessing your files across devices.  The Drive plug-in for Microsoft Office supports Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (2007, 2010, and 2013 versions), and Office 365 if you've downloaded and installed Microsoft Office on your computer as part of an Office 365 subscription. Check out the Help Center links below for more information. Launch Details Release track: Launching to both Rapid release and Scheduled release Rollout pace: Full rollout (1-3 days for feature visibility) Impact: All end users Action: Change management suggested/FYI For more information: Help Center: Admins Help Center: End users Note: all launches are applicable to all Google Apps editions unless otherwise noted Launch release calendar Launch detail categories Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates  |