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Is AI is making it harder for workers to find jobs?

Work Life

A worker with retail service experience, for example, will likely be shown jobs in retail service, rather than jobs in industries that typically have higher wages and greater career growth opportunities such as healthcare and finance. This approach is particularly disadvantageous towards job seekers with disabilities.

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slow employee listening to podcasts, interviewing with a cold, and more

Ask a Manager

” Really, when interviewers ask why you left a job, they’re just looking to make sure there are no red flags (or to get a better understanding of a move that raises question, like if you left after six months). Greeting interviewers when you have a cold. no one wants your germs!), What do you think? It’s excellent. I’d let it go.

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Landlords and occupiers don’t see eye to eye on the decarbonisation of European real estate

Workplace Insight

It provides an occupier perspective on leased real estate portfolios and decarbonisation strategies, highlighting the barriers hindering the most effective, sustainable approaches to addressing this shared responsibility, and outlines recommendations to align the interests of both parties and accelerate progress in decarbonising portfolios.

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Fighting—and Winning—Above Your Company’s Weight Class

Success

After the client’s first-round interviews, only five remained. Small companies can take business from a larger, better-financed and better-known competitor by fighting where they are strong and the opposition is weak. It seemed they felt they were above acknowledging our presence. Clearly, they felt we were no threat.

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Mortification Week: the sleepover, the angry bees, and more

Ask a Manager

“I was interviewing at a conservative company for a position where I’d be training upper administration on a particular product. Phone interview for a bank role. I think I was trying to say something funny or friendly or whatever to connect to the interviewer.”. “I had an interview for a retail company.

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it’s your Friday good news

Ask a Manager

Turns out the person in charge of finance/pitching to investors had previously been convicted of a Ponzi scheme, and that’s why we couldn’t put him on our website. In my exit interview I found out 8 people had given notice the same week I had. Then in 2017 my life imploded. Thank you for all the sage advice!”

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updates: the “low ego” job posting, getting reimbursed for parking, and more

Ask a Manager

4 at the link) When I actually went to ask the office that deals with finances and reimbursement for parking reimbursement, that set off a kerfuffle, shortly followed by a formal policy that employee parking at work could never be paid for by the unit regardless of circumstances. You live and you learn. I began a hunt and started applying.

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