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☆ Why looking for a job can feel like looking for a date
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Job seekers often churn out what can feel like endless applications, going for gigs that might not even exist. And I think with job interviews, how much can you really gauge from a résumé or a cover letter?" Another parallel he sees: Fake job listings that feel like the dating equivalent of catfishing. "I've found getting a job easier than getting a date," one Reddit user posted. "I keep getting spammed on LinkedIn with job offers from recruiters despite setting my status to not looking for a job.

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☆ This indoor farming company is trying to win workers over to agriculture — through desk-job benefits
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Courtesy Eden GreenOne of Eden Green's aims is to remove some of the unpredictability of farming by doing it indoors in soaring greenhouses stacked with rows of greens. At its facility of nearly 83,000 square feet, Eden Green does its growing without soil, a process called hydroponics . Eden Green said it uses 98% less water and 99% less land than traditional farming. Advertisement"You can still have that agriculture job and have a full-time, steady position," they said. Eden Green's retention rate has been above 80% for the past nine months, the company said.

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☆ Older bosses can hurt the productivity of Gen Z and millennial workers
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Gen Z and millennial workers, in particular, are seeing their productivity take a hit partly because of friction with older managers, according to a new report . But the share was higher among younger workers: 37% of Gen Zers and 30% of millennials said they weren’t getting much done. Older workers who had much younger managers didn't report decreased productivity. Varied experiences are one reason it can be good to bring on both younger and older workers, he said. That way of working, plus decades of experience, is why he thinks it’s often wise to rely on older workers.

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☆ I play Chiefs' mascot KC Wolf, and this is why I'll be wearing SpongeBob SquarePants boxers at the Super Bowl
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dan Meers, 57, who has played KC Wolf, the mascot for the Kansas City Chiefs, for 34 years. They were starting up a new mascot program — this new KC Wolf character — and wanted to know if I was interested. I've walked five women down the aisle dressed as KC Wolf. Now I've actually got a tuxedo that fits KC Wolf. This week, ahead of the Super Bowl, we've got 42 KC Wolf appearances in Kansas City.

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☆ If you're looking for a job, the most important skill this year is adaptability
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Madison Hoff | Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A new LinkedIn report noted adaptability as the "top skill of the moment." LinkedIn's Aneesh Raman said this skill is important given how AI is emerging in the workplace. Adaptability is important too given the number of jobs impacted by AI. "The main takeaway for me is that communication, not coding, is the number one skill across jobs," Raman said. AdvertisementAs job seekers search for work in a labor market with 1.4 US job openings per unemployed person as of December, being adaptable could be important regardless of whether you're looking for work.

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☆ My husband went through the Amazon Pivot process. It was crushing to watch him cry over losing his job.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

When the performance-management process started, it was a big surprise for me because prior to that, my husband won a prize from Amazon. For about two months, he was working his regular job and then on this extra work. I would accept if this had happened to me because I complain a lot in my job, but he doesn't. My husband was a role model for our child in part because of Amazon. My husband has a lot of shirts with Amazon on them.

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☆ Why is it so hard to find a job right now despite low unemployment?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Vargas, a special education instructor, has been mired for months in various stages of interviews for three teaching jobs. Employers' hiring rate fell sharply in 2023, Zhao said. They'll often toss out some number around 40, he told BI. AdvertisementHitting the numbers on job applications is also a priority for Kevin Cash, who previously told BI he's applied to more than 1,200 jobs and has mostly been ghosted. She's accepted a part-time job and plans to teach private classes for students learning English as a second language.

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☆ Top workers are more likely to want to quit when companies have strict return-to-office mandates
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Top workers are 16% less likely to want to stay in a job when an employer is strict on office days. A firm return-to-office mandate can also put off workers in general, according to Gartner. AdvertisementIf you're a star at work but your boss makes you head into the office, you're more likely to start hunting for a new gig. Research from Gartner indicates that high-performing workers are 16% less inclined to stay in their jobs when employers roll out strict return-to-office mandates. "What leaders often get wrong is thinking that employees are just trying to do less work or get more out of their companies," Duffy said.

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☆ The case for the 4.5-day workweek
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Basis Technologies adopted a 4.5-day workweek by making Fridays a half-day. AdvertisementThe decision by Basis to make the workweek 4.5 days could offer an alternative for companies that are short-workweek curious but aren't ready to commit. Tinkering with FridaysIn the past two to three years, Barron said, Basis has experimented with a four-day workweek and half days on Fridays. But the compromise approach to giving workers more time away from work doesn't mean Basis has ruled out the four-day workweek altogether. "The four-day workweek is not off the table," Barron said.

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☆ Why I started using this blunt cover letter after applying to more than 1,200 jobs and rarely hearing back
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementI know that every time I submit a résumé, as I said in my cover letter, "there is a 0.49% chance that a human will even see this application, let alone this cover letter." I stopped pouring my heart and soul into my cover lettersIn the past, if there was a cover letter, I put my heart and soul into it every single time. With this latest cover letter, it was the first time that I came across a required cover letter in several months. AdvertisementA cover letter submitted by Kevin Cash that he says is no-nonsense. As I said in my cover letter, "I just need someone to give me a chance."

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☆ AI is the latest job recruiter, and it could cut bias in hiring
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

When women knew AI, not humans, would review their job applications, they were more likely to apply. A researcher told BI that AI could be a useful tool but humans should always decide on hiring. It's possible that AI, working as a gatekeeper, will do a better job than humans at reducing bias in how we get jobs . Helping tech bros be less bro-eyWomen seeking tech jobs seem to be on board with AI as a surrogate recruiter, according to Leibbrandt's research. When AI was in the driver's seat — at least with the initial screening of an application — women were more likely to put in an application.

Persons: —, Andreas Leibbrandt, Leibbrandt, you'll, Barb Hyman, Hyman, who's Organizations: Service, Australia's Monash University, Business

☆ Millennials and Gen Z are giving up on one of their core values and investing more like boomers
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-11 | by ( Cork Gaines | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Preference for environmental, social, and governance — or ESG investing plummeted in 2023 among millennials and Gen Z. The survey examined the support for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues and investing across different age groups. Investments receive an ESG rating, and ESG investors pick assets that align with their views on these subjects. AdvertisementIn the survey, preference for ESG investing among millennials and Gen Z — aged between 18 and 41 — plummeted significantly compared to the year before. Tim Paradis and Alex Nicoll of Business Insider explained in December just how controversial the topic of ESG investing has become.

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☆ A Harvard student reacts to resignation of Claudine Gay
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-03 | by ( Tim Paradis | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Harvard University's president, Claudine Gay, resigned Tuesday. A current Harvard law student told Business Insider why she's happy to see Gay step down. One current Harvard law student told Business Insider she was glad Gay resigned. President Gay is not at the level that you would expect a Harvard president to be at." I just didn't see a lot of empathy coming from President Gay at all."

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☆ 7 business leaders reveal how their companies are embracing AI in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-02 | by ( Josée Rose | Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The emergence of ChatGPT in late 2022 kicked off a flurry of excitement around generative AI. Executives told BI that the power of gen AI would likely change a lot about how businesses operate. "Everyone needs to lean in, learn," one exec said about adopting Gen AI. It all felt like "gen AI" wasn't as much about generative bots but about a generation. Many business executives told Business Insider that the power of generative AI was likely to change much about how business operates .

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☆ 10 industry leaders transforming business in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-11 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

In 2023, Business Insider's annual list of People Transforming Business highlights key players across the advertising, ESG, finance, AI, and labor sectors. Increasingly, they're turning to more opaque private credit markets to borrow money. The world of private credit sits outside the traditional banking system. Analysts expect the private credit market to balloon in size — likely keeping lawyers like Breen very busy. Muthukrishnan is trying to make sense of how risky these private credit loans are by overseeing what is so far the most comprehensive look at vulnerabilities in the industry.

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☆ Why this investor thinks most founders should try ayahuasca
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

That's the assessment from one venture capitalist, who recently tried ayahuasca for the first time. Investor Eddy Vaisberg, 33, told Business Insider ayahuasca could help founders gain better insights into themselves and others — and boost their creativity. It wasn't ayahuasca on its own that shifted Vaisberg's compass, he said. Evans, 46, got into the work after he first tried ayahuasca about a decade ago at a yoga studio in Brooklyn. AdvertisementThat was around the time he first tried ayahuasca.

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☆ I went to a meeting in a virtual 3D office and left convinced it's way better than sitting on Zoom all day
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Video feeds of workers make the virtual office feel more like a real one by letting you see others. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Then I realized the office door was closed. Just us in the virtual office with video feeds of our faces. Braund steps out of his virtual office every day to take his kids to school, he said.

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☆ Jack Dorsey is getting rid of annual reviews and PIPs at Block. I asked our workplace correspondent if it's a trend.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Jack Dorsey says Block will no longer do performance reviews or performance-improvement plans. She told me she thought PIPs — performance improvement plans — were underused because companies don't necessarily want to do the legwork that often goes with them. Jack Dorsey's Block just announced that they're going to stop doing PIPs and just fire people who aren't up to snuff. So, having some ability to correct your things you're doing wrong — that's important. Block is also getting rid of annual performance reviews.

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☆ I worked in Amazon HR and was 'disgusted at what I was seeing' with performance improvement plans. Then I got put on a PIP and knew I had to quit.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

A former HR staffer at Amazon put employees on a performance-improvement plan known as Pivot. Then the HR staffer, who said they developed PTSD from the work, was put on their own PIP. Either the Pivot appeal or the Pivot work that workers' managers had to do. And look, I'm not going to say you're going to ever find this somewhere, locked down in words. AdvertisementI have PTSDI was disgusted at what I was seeing with the Pivot process.

Persons: —, I'm, Pivot, it's, wasn't, I'd, I've, everybody's, didn't, Let's, Margaret Callahan Organizations: Amazon, Service, Business Locations: United States

☆ Sam Altman's return to OpenAI doesn't necessarily mean a return to normalcy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In today's big story, we're looking at Sam Altman returning to the helm of OpenAI. Less than five days after his shocking ouster, Sam Altman is set to return to OpenAI as its CEO. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella, a key figure in the past few days' drama, comes out a winner. By helping to reinstall Altman at OpenAI, he stabilizes a key piece of Microsoft's AI strategy.

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☆ Sam Altman inspired a mass defection at OpenAI — something Steve Jobs never did at Apple
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sam Altman's ouster has been so unpopular that most OpenAI workers have threatened to quit. The chaotic ouster of Sam Altman from OpenAI offers lessons around corporate stewardship and about seizing opportunity . It's a remarkable and uncommon show of support for a top dog at a company, leadership experts told Business Insider. Young, leadership expert and author of "Kissinger's Betrayal: How America Lost the Vietnam War" told BI. "Emotions and personalities play a much greater role in the small company," he said.

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☆ Landing your dream job by getting an MBA isn't as easy anymore
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

One second-year student told Business Insider he had to pivot to a job in consulting. His job win comes as the field of consulting isn't as red-hot as it was in 2021 and 2022, experts told Business Insider. But now a range of companies are being more deliberate about how quickly they're hiring MBAs, administrators told BI. However, it's actually close to a normal market for MBA grads, industry and career experts told BI. Still, that's leaving some MBA students uneasy.

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☆ San Francisco is moving forward with its tallest-ever apartment building as California's new laws to fight the housing crisis start to pay off
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A new law fast-tracking affordable and mixed-income housing is paying off in San Francisco. Plans for the tallest-ever apartment building in the city are being fast-tracked under the new state law. The tower at 530 Howard Street will be the tallest residential building in San Francisco and the third-tallest building citywide, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Newsom signed more than 50 housing bills last month that loosen restrictions imposed by CEQA, fast-track affordable housing projects, and encourage more dense, infill residential construction. "Turning a parking lot into housing, including affordable housing, is exactly what we need to do to build a stronger, more resilient San Francisco," Breed said in a statement to the Chronicle.

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☆ Why Gen Zers skip their lunch break
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Gen Z workers are most likely to skip lunch at least once a week, a survey found. Seven in 10 Gen Z workers report they don't take lunch at least once a week. That's compared with about half of millennial workers and four in 10 Gen Xers who skip lunch. Of course, not all Gen Zers skip lunch. Beyond what a lunch break does for us at work, eating at the right times can boost health, according to scientists.

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☆ More workers should be on PIPs, but they have to be used right first
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementYou were just told you're being put on a performance-improvement plan at work. Instead, she said, bosses need to be undertaking the essential and sometimes difficult work of coaching workers who need to beef up their performance. Ask about your chances of surviving a PIPNot all PIPs are necessarily well-intentioned efforts to help workers, of course. In many cases, workers have said they felt unfairly targeted by PIPs . AdvertisementFalcone said a good PIP, used judiciously, can help both sides.

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