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Why Your Résumé Keeps Getting Rejected — And Why It’s Usually a Human, Not AI, Behind the Decision

For months, job seekers have suspected that technology is why they’re not getting interviews. Every rejection seems like it got fed into a machine, …

Why Geoffrey Hinton Says Coding Still Matters — Even in an AI-Driven Future

Every couple of months, someone on the internet proclaims that learning to code is a waste of time because artificial intelligence will soon write al…

What’s behind the sudden layoffs at major tech companies today

Another wave of layoffs hit the tech industry today, took thousands by surprise and raising fears that 2026 will feel as up and down as 2022 and 20…

Why Looking Good Has Become an Unspoken Job Skill — and How the Beauty Gap Is Quietly Widening

Somewhere between the ascent of Ozempic , full-face microlifts and laser clinics on every corner, and TikTok filters that make us all look as if we…

Nine Months After My Meta Layoff, the ‘Low Performer’ Label Still Follows Me — And It’s Costing Me Opportunities

When Meta let me go nine months ago, the words that stuck were not “restructuring,” “reduction” or “realignment.” It was the tag that they subtly in…

Leaving a Prestigious Tech Job at 40 Forced Me to Start Over — And It Ended Up Teaching Me Who I Really Was

When I quit my job at Apple at 40, it didn’t seem brave or pioneering. It felt terrifying. For years, I’d constructed an identity of being part of o…

Why Citadel’s CTO Personally Calls Young Recruits — And What It Reveals About the Firm’s War for Talent

In an industry where tech giants entrust automated portals, recruiter chains and faceless hiring systems, Citadel is doing something that virtually …

Why a Hall of Fame QB-Turned-CEO Personally Interviews Every Hire — And the One Behavior That Makes Him Walk Away

And when you’ve spent your life reading defenses, calling audibles and trusting your instincts under pressure, those skills it turns out don’t disapp…

A Former HR Lead at Stripe Says Asking One Simple Question Will Tell You if Troubled Employees Need an Intervention

As soon as a team member begins to miss deadlines, check out in meetings, or slip in performance, the standard reaction of most managers is to slip i…

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says Her Curly Hair Was a Career Battleground

When Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz was in her mid-20s and gearing up to run for the Florida State House , she turned to older women in poli…

The Reason It’s So Hard to Get a Job Is Because It’s Been Programmed That Way

If you've recently applied for a job, that feeling is likely familiar — the sense that your résumé has disappeared into a digital ether. It's…

Inside the World’s Biggest HR Group, Tension Is Boiling — and Workers Say Culture, Not Staffing, Is the Issue

And yet, for an organization predicated on teaching companies how to manage people, the world’s most significant HR association now faces an uncomfo…

In N.Peal How He Paid for His Wedding by Wearing Ads — And Got a Tech Job

Strapped for cash months before marrying his fiancée, Dagobert Renouf did something surprising: He turned his wedding suit into a billboard. The res…

One Cold-Email Campaign That Got a 29-Year-Old VC in The Room With Marc Benioff

In a world of thousands of LinkedIn messages and random inbox pitches, sometimes annoying does win out. Harry Stebbings , a 29-year-old founder of th…

Google Engineers Face H-1B Visa Uncertainty

Can the American dream turn into a bureaucratic nightmare for tech workers ? A 28-year-old Google engineer on an H-1B visa is torn. She wants to kee…