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Project manager interview questions: 5 key areas to prep for

CIO Business Intelligence

Good news: You’ve landed an interview for a project manager job. We spoke to a range of career specialists and coaches, along with folks who’ve supervised and hired project managers, to get insights into the sorts of questions you can expect at a PM job interview — and how you should prepare to answer them.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech hires commercial officer; Instacart names new president; and more

GeekWire

In this new role, Sood will be responsible for the commercialization of Adaptive Biotech’s research solution immunoSEQ; its testing tool clonoSEQ; and T-Detect, a T-cells test which has been used to detect COVID-19 antibodies. He was most recently CTO for San Francisco-based employee management software Reflektive.

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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

GeekWire

million, five-year contract from NASA to demonstrate electric propulsion technologies for aircraft, and has branched out to build hydrogen fuel cells as well as electric motors. After E-Fan X, Armesmith took on a wider portfolio of turbine research programs as Rolls-Royce’s head of programs for aviation futures.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

GeekWire

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Lara Rogers.

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Getting Value From Your Data Scientists

CTOvision

Simply hiring expensive data scientists isn’t enough. To create real business value with data scientists, top management must learn how to manage them effectively. ". Neither data scientists nor managers are very good at speaking the other’s language, and executives compound the problem by the way they manage data scientists. ".

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. We’ve seen 10 to 15% increases across the board for two years in a row,” says CTO and chief transformation officer Richard Wiedenbeck.