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
Partnership with the City of Henderson will launch STEM Workforce Accelerator Henderson, NV – February 11, 2016 – Transmosis, a nationally recognized workforce accelerator founded by Silicon Valley technology entrepreneurs, today announced it has won a grant from the Governor’s Office
By: Bryan Dean Wright A viral video released in February showed Boston Dynamics’ new bipedal robot, Atlas, performing human-like tasks: opening doors, tromping about in the snow, lifting and stacking boxes. Tech geeks cheered and Silicon Valley investors salivated at
The Uber model just doesn’t work for other industries. The price points always fail — and that’s a good thing By: Steven Hill The New York Times’ Farhad Manjoo recently wrote an oddly lamenting piece about how “the Uber model,
