#hiring

#hiring

"Does AI mean that you should hire senior people or middle-level, or junior, or are all the jobs going to go away because AI will replace them all?" Field asked. "I've heard that last one a bunch of times, and it hasn't come true yet. All the people have said that. They continue to hire."

AI, however, is forcing the firm to rethinkthe types of applicants it considers in the hiring process, CEO Bob Sternfels said. On Harvard Business Review's IdeaCast podcast this week, Sternfels said the firm used AI to analyze its past 20 years of hiring data to understand where it may have overlooked talent for its coveted class of partners. The firmfound that applicants who had setbacks and recovered were more likely to become partners.

The frozen job market could be heading into "a moment of reckoning" this year, said Claudia Sahm, the chief economist of New Century Advisors.

"I'm sure they've prepped in a way to not look too bad, but I actually appreciate it when someone says, 'Actually, this was a failure,'" she said. "When they say, 'This was when I messed up,' instead of blaming others." "Those are some of the soft signals that I look for, when the person can accept when things are not working, or can accept that there was a mistake, and evolve and learn from that," Nakajima said.

Hugely underrated. By the way, hugely necessary, and a big differentiator for the firm,

"Just checked, 176,000 job applications at Figure the last 3 years," he wrote in an X post on Saturday. "We've hired ~425 people." That amounts to a hiring rate of about .24% within the three years. Adcock wrote that most of the submissions were "slop." The spread of the 176,000 applications over the three years is unclear. Adcock did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

NYU professor Suzy Welch recentlyreleased the results of her study on Gen Z and businesses across America. Welch teaches M.B.A. students and attempts to prepare them for a life of purpose and leadership. There's just one problem: their values. Welch's analysis produced an outcome that startled her and her team: A mere 2% of Generation Z members hold the values that companies want most in new hires, which are achievement, learning, and an unbridled desire to work. Generation Z respondents' top three values were:

Banks need elite talent to tackle what's expected to be a busy 2026, forcing them to compete for top dealmakers amid one of the strongest M&A backdrops in years. The industry "will probably have the second biggest year in history," Goldman Sachs CFO Denis Coleman said on Tuesday at a financial industry conference hosted by the firm, noting that the bank has already advised on activity "north of a trillion dollars" this year.

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The job market feels like you're constantly jumping through hoops and ambiguity. Is it a good idea to write a cover letter? Will the hiring manager even read it? Should you share that you have more than 20 years of experience on resume and risk looking overqualified? Or would that be seen as a good thing? Should you send your resume as a Word doc or a PDF? And there are a thousand other questions that no one seems to be able to fully settle on.

A few years ago, the head of business operations launched a startup, now operating as Cricket Wireless, a subsidiary of AT&T. Cricket Wireless is now worth over $6 billion and has more than 13 million customers, a spokesperson for AT&T said. During that process, she had the opportunity to build her dream team - and her goal was to find employees who were willing to think big. Through trial and error, Van Buskirk discovered two interview questions that she still uses to help her identify the right candidates.

Most people think they're A-players until they hear what an A-player actually is,

I think about hiring the same way. Like a stat sheet, a résumé might list someone's achievements, but it won't show how they adapt under pressure or support a team. Yet in the age of AI, companies often overlook that, prioritizing technical skills instead. According to a 2024 report from Microsoft and LinkedIn, 71% of employers said they would choose an AI-fluent candidate with less experience over someone more experienced but with limited AI knowledge.

"When I interview people, I ask them to give me an example of something they've invented,"

Dear Undecided, Hire Rhonda. She is an adult who presumably knows how large her breasts are, and if she is as impeccably qualified as you say, then she knows how to handle middle schoolers. Also, not hiring someone because of the size of their breasts could be considered discrimination because someone's sex is a protected class. Fun fact, if you didn't want to hire Rhonda because she was short or had blue eyes, that would actually be legal (although still gross!).

"Five years from now, we'll have more engineers working for our company than we do today," Cannon-Brookes said.

L.L. Bean is bringing its signature outdoor lifestyle brand to MetroWest this fall. A 20,000-square-foot store will open in November at Framingham's Fresh Market Plaza. "Framingham's location in the heart of MetroWest makes it an ideal spot for our newest retail store," said Greg Elder, Chief Retail Officer at L.L. Bean, in a statement. "It will allow us to more conveniently serve our area customers with our outdoor-inspired, four-season assortment of apparel and footwear."

A Raising Cane's in Chinatown will open its doors on Tuesday, October 21. The location is at 722 7th St. NW, steps from the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro stop and a block down from where the Washington Capitals and Wizards play their home games. The Capitals play the Seattle Kraken that night. Raising Cane's menu features four box combo options and a kid's meal.

A key pipeline for funneling talent into white-collar work has sprung a big leak that won't be easy to fix. Consultants are no strangers to volatility. In fact, a big part of their business is advising clients on the best ways to navigate change. BI's Polly Thompson, our resident consulting expert, has extensively reported on these trends. PwC, for example, plans to cut college graduate hiring over the next three years, with AI cited as a primary reason.

Donna Morris has one go-to question that helps determine whether she'll hire you - and knowing it in advance won't help you script the perfect response, she says. The question is: "If I was to ask people who've worked for you before, what will they tell me?" As executive vice president and chief people officer at Walmart, Morris oversees the largest private workforce in the US.

As someone who recently worked partially in the sustainability industry, I was pretty upset to find out that my portfolio was emitting a hecklot of CO2. But that was just the tip of the iceberg of why I decided to dive into the portfolio topic again, years after I wrote an extensive guide on designing better portfolios. Tldr? Standards have changed. And I think it's time you knew about it.