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Out To Lunch: You're Hired

Alison Moon
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It's New Orleans

If you’re looking for a job, one of the most tedious aspects of the search is constantly refining your resume so it looks appealing to your prospective employer. If you’re an employer, one of the most time-wasting aspects of searching for the right person is meeting prospective employees and finding out they’re not quite as impressive as their resume.

Crystal McDonald’s New Orleans company, Acrew, is changing all that - for both job seekers and employers. The Acrew method of applying for a job does away with the resume. And the first face-to-face interview. Yes, it’s pretty radical. But like Like many revolutionary ideas, it’s so simple you wonder why someone didn’t think of it years ago.

Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! His insight and humor have twice made him the top professor at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. After a successful career on Wall Street, Ricchiuti served for five years as Assistant State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's $3 billion investment portfolio.