Comments on: Our Dumb Question: What’s an ATS Theme Song Sound Like?

By: Keith Halperin

Keith Halperin — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:51:30 +0000

@ Martin:
As a recruiter with a degree in Astronomy, I think your company has a sensible, practical name. Most recruiting firms are “Red Giants”- puffy, overblown, and destined to burn out before too long…

ATS theme song:
That’s an easy one- “It’s a Fine, Fine Line (Between Love and a Waste of Time) from Avenue Q.

YOWZA!

Keith keithsrj@sbcglobal.net

By: Martin Snyder

Martin Snyder — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:53:12 +0000

My was I in a flippant mood this morning….

By: Jessica Lunk

Jessica Lunk — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:38:04 +0000

John, we’d love to Atango with you. Let’s set up a demo.

By: Martin Snyder

Martin Snyder — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:03:22 +0000

Oy-

1) The travel question is classist and may even be illegal (due to disparate impact on a non-job related question).

Any marketer will tell you that the rich and the middle live more alike than they have in years (even with increasing income inequality) with one glaring exception: travel. Well-off people travel far more often and to far more places.

How about a question like “what can you tell me about what you know of different cultures?”

After all, there are people stuck in prison cells who travel more meaningfully than some jet-setters….

2) ATS companies with a story behind their logo and name? I like it, but that was not even fresh 15 years ago when WE did it. Glad to see the grail still attracts.

So FYI, our logo and name is the “Main Sequence” defined thusly: The stable phase of a star’s lifetime, when outward pressure from internal fusion process using hydrogen for fuel is balanced by the inward force of self-gravitation. This phase is usually the longest phase of a star’s lifetime. Our Sun is a main sequence star.

In other words, it speaks to the 80/20 rule, stability, moderation, duration, and balance…