Like a lot of recruitment platforms it helps companies find tech talent across Europe through a network of European headhunters validating the talent on the platform and making visible their city preferences.
But it says something about impatient N.B.A. owners and executives that they prefer someone else to validate their talent for them instead of going with someone unproven as an established winner.
Though millennials are the largest generation in America's workforce, many feel they still have "something to prove", that they must validate their talent, credentials and accomplishments.
Though millennials are the largest generation in America's workforce, many feel they still have 'something to prove', that they must validate their talent, credentials and accomplishments.
Unfortunately, for the majority of minority artists without mainstream credentials to validate their talents (such as Mr. Freeman's Oscar nominations or the Oscar of Denzel Washington, now playing Richard III at the Shakespeare Festival), adventurous casting choices are much harder to come by.
Much as it has done for student athletes for years, the recognition validates the students' talent and passion.
All that makes Wagner the perfect choice for another team, one with vision and gumption, a franchise that refuses to let popular opinion validate its talent.
It involves discursive, institutional and relational racial ideologies that lay down social, economic, cultural and institutional privileges and powers not only for those identified as white and pass as white, but also for those who are "promoted" from positions of inferiority to whiteness, such as those accepted as white owing to certain skills or talents validated by those who hold power.
Or the time that our teacher inspired us by validating our dreams in suggesting that we audition for a talent show.
In addition, the proliferation of network economy business models — where sourcing of digital assets, crowd talent and information and ad networks — makes verifying and validating even more important.
Because one day, we might get a chance to showcase our talents on the big stage, proudly representing, and hopefully validating, the underdogs.
