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Living on the coast of Maine has its advantages. Beaches and islands are close. “Not that close,” my husband said when my daughter told us her high school English teacher had recommended her for a summer job. The opportunity was on a small island, a ferry ride away, and it…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rhiannon Wood, a 26-year-old travel micro influencer who runs a social media business and leads group tours around the world. It has been edited for length and clarity.After graduating from the University of Birmingham in the UK in 2022, I knew…
Jinyoung Oh, 23, recently received an offer to work as a software engineer after about a year of searching. He lives in Seattle. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.I started looking for jobs last September, before I graduated in May.When I started college, I thought I would…
For our Still in the Game series, Business Insider has been interviewing and surveying people in their 50s who are navigating career changes. As we’ve shared their struggles and triumphs through unemployment and career pivots, we’ve heard from more than 100 readers via emails and comments, many expressing the same…
To avoid getting iced out by hiring managers, you might want to leave your iced coffee at home.In a viral TikTok video, recruiter Caitlin Wehniainen discussed Gen Z candidates arriving at interviews with iced coffees and lattes. She thinks this comes across too casually, as though the interview is “a…
Osahon Aburime opened his Lyft app on Mother’s Day last year to make some money.That day, the North Carolina driver had made about $80 to put toward taking his wife out to dinner and getting a gift for his mom. As he was on his way to pick up a…
This is a conversation with Justin Johnsen, the lead technical architect at KPMG. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.I joined KPMG six years ago, and I’ve been a forward-deployed engineer for about a year, working across different clients.When I started with KPMG as a software engineer, all…
This is an as-told-essay based on a conversation with Paul Farahvar, a touring stand-up comedian based in Chicago who previously worked as a trial lawyer. This story has been edited for length and clarity.Right out of law school, I started practicing at an insurance defense law firm. I had won…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sara Wilczynska, a 41-year-old watercolor artist and founder of Swil Arts who lives in San Diego. Prior to her art career, she worked as a software engineer in the finance and tech industries before quitting her job at Google in 2022.…
The next high-profile AI hire may not be another researcher, but an “embedded evaluator” tasked with scrutinizing frontier models before they’re released.In a blog post on Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said frontier AI labs should commit to embedding independent safety evaluators within their organizations.The embedded evaluators’ job is to…
