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☆ I'm a millennial job seeker who kept getting my résumé rejected. Then, I changed the formatting.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Dania Swails, 28, has worked in finance and is looking for another job in the industry after leaving her last role. There would be jobs where I met every requirement, and I was getting rejected, getting rejected, getting rejected. I was getting automatically rejected, so I decided to apply only for jobs where I met every qualification. Then, a recruiter I'd been working with said my résumé could be getting caught in applicant-tracking systems. When I submitted my résumé and job description through this system, I was surprised by the results.

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☆ Gen Z wants work flexibility almost as much as they want fair pay
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Young workers value job flexibility nearly as much as competitive pay, a survey showed. Gen Zers prioritize flexibility for work-life balance, research indicates. Most Gen Zers prefer in-person or hybrid work setups over fully remote work. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementFor some young workers, having flexibility in their jobs is nearly as important as how much they get paid.

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☆ The work perk that GenZ really wants
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

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☆ Here are the top 10 states for working remotely based on utility costs, internet speeds, and job openings
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A look at internet speeds, power costs, and job openings revealed the top states for remote gigs. Washington and Arizona also ranked well for work-from-home jobs based on these factors. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Desky, which makes ergonomic furniture, reviewed internet speeds, electricity costs, and openings for remote jobs to determine which US states are ideal for work-from-home gigs.

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☆ These are some of the highest-paying jobs for digital nomads
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A review of remote jobs worldwide found data scientists earned $132,000 on average. Greenback Expat Tax Services reviewed 6,800 job listings and polled 1,000 Americans on remote work. Many Gen Z workers are interested in becoming digital nomads, seeking flexibility and travel. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The findings by Greenback Expat Tax Services, which provides tax services for expats, were based on a review of nearly 6,800 job listings posted on Indeed from around the world.

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☆ Gen Z to older workers: We're just like you
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The study defined Gen Z as those born between 1997 and 2012, but the research involved only Gen Zers already in the workforce, not those still in school. In its interviews, 51% of Gen Zers said salary was the most important part of a job, whereas 47% of older workers said the same. BI recently reported that more than half of Gen Z and millennial workers are living paycheck to paycheck. In the survey, 33% of Gen Z workers told researchers they expect to be promoted to leadership roles at their company, compared with only 19% of older workers. And 44% of Gen Z workers want to be in charge of others versus only 27% of those outside that generation.

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☆ What Walmart's RTO mandate is really about
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Dominick Reuter | Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Walmart's chief people officer, Donna Morris, commented similarly in a memo announcing the layoffs and relocations earlier that week. She wrote that working in an office would help workers collaborate, innovate, and "move even faster." Still, some employees continued working remotely, and several satellite offices remained open in cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Toronto, and Seattle. He also said he doesn't think the company is using this RTO mandate as a cover for achieving cost savings through workforce reductions, commonly referred to as "quiet firing," but that it's more part of Walmart's ethos. For the remote worker BI spoke with, the next few weeks will be filled with uncertainty.

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☆ A millennial CEO launched a fully remote tech company. He says hybrid work is the worst of both worlds.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. "The point of it was to be silly and to put people in different environments and situations where they could create new networks and pathways to people in the company," Pitt said. 'It's easy to look busy'Another way the company tackles remote work for an employee base spread around the world is to cluster some functions. Rather than dwelling on where workers work, a big focus is on developing trust, Pitt said. AdvertisementAnd, Pitt said, if workers care about the mission, it doesn't matter whether they work in an office or from afar.

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☆ A former Facebook director says managers need to kill the weekly 1:1 meeting. Here's why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA former Facebook director thinks the weekly 1:1 meeting with your manager needs a reboot. AdvertisementAgarwal suggested bosses give feedback every three to six months rather than weekly. But it's what "good" managers did," Agarwal wrote of the weekly appointments. Instead, Agarwal suggested that bosses should save themselves and their direct reports' time to focus on getting work done and making the company successful. Weekly 1:1s undermine this," he wrote.

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☆ 1 in 3 senior execs say a return-to-office mandate is pushing them to quit
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. That earlier survey also found that 19% of non-exec workers would likewise quit if forced to pick up their commute again. AdvertisementOgawa said the findings were also notable because high-up executives are often the people tasked with implementing RTO mandates. That's a big drop from a prior survey in 2023, when 62% of CEOs held that expectation. Advertisement"They might not be looking to retain folks who wouldn't want to come back to the office," she said.

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☆ Tesla, Google, and Microsoft won't stop laying people off. Here's why that could backfire.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The recent quip on Blind came from a worker at a large tech company commenting on word of more job cuts at Google. There's little doubt that for some tech workers, this gallows humor feels spot-on after waves of layoffs at some of the industry's biggest names — including Google, Microsoft, and Tesla. Elon Musk told staff last month that Tesla will lay off 10% of its workers. Advertisement"They think that their brand is bulletproof," Cascio said, referring to big-name tech companies.

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☆ I've been offered every job I've interviewed for. Here are 5 questions I ask interviewers.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

She shared her strategy for acing job interviews, which includes having five key questions ready. She recently posted a TikTok about five questions she has ready for a job interview. Lindstrom says she believes asking at least some of these questions is why she's always landed a role she interviewed for. I really drove home that it doesn't stop at 5 p.m. My job stops when my job is done. I wanted my audience to know that asking about it is so important because if you're miserable in your job, you're only setting yourself up to fail.

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☆ The likely reason your résumé got rejected
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Although the recent grad didn't have tech experience, to Weaver, he'd shown longevity with a company and a desire to take on more responsibility. "The ATS doesn't care. "They don't have time to really parse through a résumé and think if someone may or may not be a fit. Weaver said taking these steps makes it less likely that a résumé will be set aside when a recruiter sorts for certain attributes. Don't fear the etherIt's understandable why people would stress over whether an ATS would block their résumé.

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☆ Here are the highest-paid CEOs in the US , some of whom have 9-figure compensation packages
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Broadcom's Hock Tan tops a list of highly paid CEOs. The median pay package for CEOs was $23.7 million in 2023, an 11.4% increase from the prior year. The highest-paid CEOs in the US aren't necessarily household names, but they're enjoying some pretty sweet pay packages — more than enough to avoid worries about higher prices for that morning coffee. Take Hock Tan, head of chipmaker Broadcom. Tan topped a list of the 100 highest-paid chiefs from Equilar, which analyzes data on executive compensation.

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☆ Amazon CEO Andy Jassy broke federal labor law with anti-union remarks
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor law in comments he made to media outlets about unionization efforts at the company, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday. NLRB Administrative Law Judge Brian Gee cited interviews Jassy gave in 2022 to CNBC's "Squawk Box," Bloomberg Television and at The New York Times' DealBook conference. At the DealBook conference, Jassy said that without a union the workplace isn't "bureaucratic, it's not slow." The NLRB filed the complaint against Amazon and Jassy in October 2022. But the Amazon chief's other remarks that employees would be less empowered and "better off" without a union violated labor law, "because they went beyond merely commenting on the employee-employer relationship."

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☆ AI has entered the workplace. 3 industry leaders discuss how businesses can embrace it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Leila Jordan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

As the new technology accelerates in skill and ubiquity, business leaders are racing to figure out what the relationship between workers and AI will look like in years to come. Business Insider's virtual event "Human-AI Collaboration: The Key to Workplace Efficiency and Innovation," presented by Dell Technologies, brought together a panel of experts to discuss the trials, triumphs, and future of AI. He discussed the major ways in which Dell is integrating AI into its processes, from increasing productivity for developers to automating content. "There are predictions that we could have two times, three times, even four times the employment demand for new job growth as a result of gen-AI and AI ethicists, AI translators, AI mediators, AI co-creative, AI legal, and compliance experts," Miscovich said. Working with AI from the ground floor can allow businesses to design the parameters that will guide AI's future presence in the workplace.

Persons: Matt Baker, Mozziyar Etemadi, Peter Miscovich, Tim Paradis, Baker, Miscovich, Etemadi Organizations: Service, Efficiency, Dell Technologies, Business, Dell, Northwestern Medicine, AIs

☆ I took a higher-paying job instead of one where I could work from home. I'm not sure it was the right move.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

He recently took a government job that paid more than another role where he would have been able to work remotely four days a week. While he likes the job, he has a long commute, so some days he's not sure he made the right decision. And I really like the work I'm doing now in this new job. What if we matched the salary and gave you one day working from home?" You can't be like, "Oh, I'm happy to work from home," and then do absolutely nothing because it's so obvious.

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☆ Why AI might make it harder to pull off a 4-day workweek
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

He also expects more go-getters will feel pressed to do the same as AI bores deeper into the workplace. Of course, if people need to oversee AI bots at all hours, workers could take on babysitting duty at different times of the day. But as he sees how AI will change how humans work, "people are going to get more and more tired — and busier," Gill said. Looking for a payoffNot everyone thinks AI will quash dreams of a four-day workweek. Whelehan said that, ultimately, management will decide whether AI will lead to job losses or enable a four-day workweek.

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☆ Believe it or not, we're spending less time in meetings than we used to
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewWe're spending less time in meetings than just a few years ago. And they're taking longer, with the average meeting length at 51.9 minutes, up from 50.6 in 2021. The survey, which focused on tech companies, found that employees spend 37% of their work hours in meetings. There is such a thing as good meetings," Shapiro said. The survey, which was conducted from February through April, found that workers spend about three hours a week booking and rescheduling meetings.

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☆ Google's worker firings show that the office actually isn't a place to be yourself
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. But in the years since the gauzy "whole self" notion became something of an HR cliché, the idea has frayed even further. I can bring my whole self to work, but I can't talk about politics,'" she said. This is where nuance comes into play: Political talk at work can be necessary. Deciding what's politicalStill, Reitz noted that people don't always agree on what's political.

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☆ Having ChatGPT experience could trump a college degree, nearly half the business leaders in a survey said
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In a survey, 49% of business leaders said knowing how to use ChatGPT could top having a degree. Despite this, 36% of respondents didn't see ChatGPT experience as more valuable than a degree. It's also possible that some business leaders expect that newer — and presumably younger — workers might have more exposure to AI, Nguyen said. In the survey, 36% of respondents didn't see experience with ChatGPT as more valuable than a college degree, and 12% were unsure. Some eight in 10 execs said knowing how to use AI would be even more important for entry-level workers in 2025.

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☆ Emily or Lakisha? Guess which one hiring managers chose.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Researchers studied racial bias in hiring by sending over 83,000 fake résumés to big US companies. The auto services industry was among those most likely to show a preference for résumés containing white-sounding names. But in the most extreme instances, those doing the hiring favored résumés that might be presumed to be from white candidates by 24%, on average. Already, some people in fields like tech who have seen cuts in recent years are applying to job after job with little luck. AdvertisementOf the 108 companies researchers sent résumés to, among the best performers were car-rental company Avis Budget Group and the grocery chain Kroger.

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☆ Trump is now out of options to delay Monday's start of jury selection in his hush money trial: legal experts
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Former President Donald Trump has run out of legal options to delay Monday's start of his Manhattan hush-money trial, legal experts predict. Trump's lawyers struck out 0-3 this week, when three Manhattan appellate judges rejected three separate emergency delay bids during arguments on Monday, on Tuesday, and Wednesday. Barring an unforeseen, nonlegal emergency, jury selection in Trump's first of four criminal cases will begin as scheduled on Monday morning in Supreme Court in lower Manhattan, experts said. Ditto the US Supreme Court, where Trump could ultimately end up, given that all three appellate efforts raise Constitutional issues, Schechtman said. AdvertisementBut though Trump's lawyers failed to stop the trial, their efforts may not be wasted down the road.

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☆ Trump is now out of options to delay Monday's start of jury selection in his hush-money trial: legal experts
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump struck out 0-3 during three visits this week to a Manhattan appellate courthouse. Former President Donald Trump has run out of legal options to delay Monday's start of his Manhattan hush-money trial, legal experts predict. Barring an unforeseen, nonlegal emergency, jury selection in Trump's first of four criminal cases will begin as scheduled on Monday morning in the Supreme Court in lower Manhattan, legal experts say. But even if Trump wins — and that's a long shot — it's highly unlikely any of these three appellate decisions would stop or even pause the trial, legal experts also say. Ditto the US Supreme Court, where Trump could ultimately end up, given that all three appellate efforts raise Constitutional issues, Shechtman said.

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☆ More CEOs expect hybrid work is here to stay
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"Hybrid is likely here to stay," Paul Knopp, chair and CEO at KPMG US, told Business Insider. AdvertisementThe survey of 100 CEOs of large US companies found that 46% of them expect what had been office roles will be hybrid, up from 34% in 2023. But corporate chiefs seem to be holding the line on remote work, with only 3% of top bosses backing fully remote work. AdvertisementSome seven in 10 CEOs said they expect to boost hiring during the next year, while only 4% expect to cut jobs during that time. AdvertisementNearly four in 10 CEOs expect their companies will move from AI pilots to broader use within their organizations during the next 12 to 18 months.

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