By: Joe Cardillo Student loan debt is on a lot of people’s’ minds. It’s been a large part of the current presidential primary races, and some employers are even beginning to offer student loan repayment as a benefit the same they
By: Jeff Selingo In May of 1994, a couple of weeks after I finished my junior year of college, I packed up my parents’ Honda Accord and moved to Washington, D.C. for the summer. I lived in a dorm at
The American Apparel headquarters and manufacturing building is located on Alameda Street and 7th street in Los Angeles. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) By: Shan Li and Natalie Kitroeff Los Angeles was once the epicenter of apparel manufacturing, attracting
By: Dan Lyons At HubSpot, the software company where I worked for almost two years, when you got fired, it was called “graduation.” We all would get a cheery email from the boss saying, “Team, just letting you know that
By: Vivian Giang Although we may never know why we didn’t get chosen for a job interview, a recent study is shedding some light on recruiters’ decision-making behavior. According to TheLaddersresearch, recruiters spend an average of “six seconds before they make the initial ‘fit or no
By: Andario Strange VIDEO: YOUTUBE, MEHDI_SAN Google recently put up its Boston Dynamics robotics unit up for sale, but that doesn’t mean that the company is getting out of the automaton business. A new bipedal robot from Google’s Schaft robotics
By Chris Rossini Have you noticed that as government raises the minimum wage, automation seems to appear more and more for those low-skilled jobs? Coincidence? Not at all. The minimum wage incentivizes and accelerates automation. The minimum wage is an
By: Tyler Durden With both ISM Manufacturing and Services employment indices collapsing, endless headlines of layoffs, Challenger-Grey noting Q1 as the worst since 2009, and NFIB small business hiring weak, it is no surprise that initial jobless claims is finally waking
By: PETER ECONOMY Seventy-one percent of Millennials are disengaged at their jobs. That’s a big problem. IMAGE: Getty Images An interesting phenomenon has developed in the generation born between the late ’70s and the mid-’90s, a group we now call Millennials. According
By: Michael Bernick, San Francisco According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there are more than 600,000 job openings on an average day in California in March 2016. How can this be, with so many Californians having difficulty finding
