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This startup is betting job seekers will pay to land a job

Hansheng Liu’s first attempt to find a job through the startup Refer didn’t work out.It was this past fall, and the recent computer science grad from the University of Illinois said he hadn’t done enough to beef up his résumé. Liu then spent part of the winter building a website…

AI chatbots are coming for white-collar job interviews

When Bijo Thomas logged onto his computer for a job interview this spring, an AI chatbot named Sophie appeared on the screen.Thomas, a 45-year-old tech professional from Austin, said Sophie resembled a real businesswoman from the neck up, with brown hair pulled back and a white top. She smiled, gestured,…

I quit my job to travel with my dad. He died 10 days later.

One year ago, I left my job to travel with my father. Neither of us had taken a vacation in years; he was a widower living alone, and I was a journalist who had prioritized my career for 25 years.A trip was something we had discussed after my mother unexpectedly…

How job descriptions got longer than CVS receipts

When Robin Olsen started applying for communications jobs three months ago, she noticed a shift: The job descriptions had grown longer. One combined communications and marketing, typically two separate roles, into one. Others seemed to have “crazy wish lists,” Olsen says. One was so overwhelmingly long that it prompted Olsen…

Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn’t buy the anxiety about AI-related job displacement

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t buy the fear about AI job displacement.”I think that people assume that that’s inevitability,” Zuckerberg said during a recent live interview for Complex’s “Idea Generation.” “I don’t actually think it is.”Zuckerberg said the job situation will improve if companies focused more on “personal super intelligence”…