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MOOCs and Employment – Recruiting

September 5, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Employment

Of the three areas of employment that have some intersection with MOOCs and free learning, recruitment seems to be the one in which MOOC providers are taking the most direct interest. When I recently talked about screening processes required to hone hundreds or thousands of job applicants down to a manageable stack, that might have […]

MOOCs and Employment – Screening

September 4, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Employment

Employee screening, which encompasses virtually everything that happens between a job opportunity being made available and the final selection of a candidate, is the area of employment I’m most familiar with, given that I spent most of my years in the assessment field selling to employers looking to filter down lists of job candidates. In […]

MOOCs and Employment – Development

September 3, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Employment

Well my kids return to school in a few short hours, which means it’s time to return to a full schedule here at Degree of Freedom.  The newsletter will return on Monday with a review of Coursera’s English Common Law course that just completed (you can sign up over to the right).  And this Friday […]

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