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• Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning
• Management guru Peter Drucker noted that companies attracting the best knowledge workers will "secure the single biggest factor for competitive advantage." We and other forward-looking companies put a lot of effort into hiring such people. What are we looking for?
• At the highest level, we are looking for non-routine problem-solving skills.
• But the non-routine problems offer the opportunity to create competitive advantage, and solving those problems requires creative thought and tenacity.
• The non-routine, creative solution is to use the query corrections and refinements that other users have made in the past to offer spelling suggestions for new queries. This approach enables us to correct all the words that aren't in the dictionary, helping many more users in the process.
• non-routine savants
• analytical reasoning
• we start with data
• communication skills
• a willingness to experiment
• non-routine solutions
• a willingness to accept the evidence even if you don't like it.
• team players
• work well together and perform up to the team's expectations
• passion and leadership
• motivated by a sense of importance about what you do
• The need for reasoning, though, remains constant, so we believe in taking the most challenging courses in core disciplines: math, sciences, humanities.
• It's easy to educate for the routine, and hard to educate for the novel.
• It's easy to educate for the routine, and hard to educate for the novel.
• The need for reasoning, though, remains constant, so we believe in taking the most challenging courses in core disciplines: math, sciences, humanities.
• And then keep on challenging yourself, because learning doesn't end with graduation. In fact, in the real world, while the answers to the odd-numbered problems are not in the back of the textbook, the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean from the free market. Learning, it turns out, is a lifelong major.
  
• learning doesn't end with graduation.
• And then keep on challenging yourself, because learning doesn't end with graduation. In fact, in the real world, while the answers to the odd-numbered problems are not in the back of the textbook, the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean from the free market. Learning, it turns out, is a lifelong major.
• In fact, in the real world, while the answers to the odd-numbered problems are not in the back of the textbook, the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean from the free market.
• learning doesn't end with graduation.
• Learning, it turns out, is a lifelong major
• Learning, it turns out, is a lifelong major.