Hiring an effective lawyer has far more to do with personality, past behavior, and situational judgment than an LSAT (Law School Admission Test) score or undergraduate GPA, according to a study by Dr. Sheldon Zedeck of UC Berkeley and Dr. Marjorie Schultz of Berkeley Law. Before reviewing the study, an explanation of the LSAT is […]
Employment increased by 223,000 jobs in March, according to the Bright Employment Report, led by the tech and healthcare industries. This is slightly more optimistic than the 88,000 jobs predicted by the BLS this morning, but neither estimate would indicate that jobs are getting back to pre-recession levels anytime soon. CNN reported today that we’ve […]
Today, the Bright Data Science Team returned for a second year of volunteering for the Science Alliance at Redwood Heights School, a public elementary school in Oakland, CA. We are happy to be a part of an event which helps students develop a love for the sciences Once again, Ben manned the baggy greenhouse station. […]
As a Bright employee, I constantly get asked the question, “What does Bright do?” The unofficial company line goes, “We try to make hiring more efficient.” While that’s an entirely accurate statement that acts as the guiding light for all we do, it’s a bit of an oversimplification. As a Bright Data Scientist, I think about […]
The US economy created a sluggish 131,000 jobs in February, according to our Data Science team at Bright.com – even fewer than January’s 189,000 jobs, and it doesn’t appear that a recovery is on the way any time soon. A CNN article reports that $85 billion in federal budget cuts, set to take place today […]
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