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WealthUp

11 hours ago

High-Paying Remote Jobs for People Seeking Remote Work

Remote jobs offer financial benefits and enable a comfortable work environment. [ more ]

Apartment Therapy

These Are the Remote Jobs That Will Dominate in 2023

We independently select these products-if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission.All prices were accurate at the time of publishing.Working from home is still the norm for many, with a number of companies offering hybrid working or fully-remote positions.FlexJobs' March 2022 survey found that 57 percent of respondents would leave their job if their company wouldn't offer remote work options, while 87 percent stated that remote work options improved their work-life balance.

The Daily Dot

'The only people saying that this doesn't work are the people that can't do it, and they're mad about it': Worker's video on working remotely while on summer vacation goes viral

A worker on TikTok is continuing to advocate for vacationing and having fun while simultaneously working remotely.

moreRemote teams

www.scientificamerican.com

1 week ago

Artificial intelligence

AI Recruiters Have Joined the Job Search. Who Are They Helping?

AI recruitment tools like the Jennie Johnson bot are increasingly used by companies, potentially leading to a dehumanizing job market experience for job seekers. [ more ]

WIRED

1 month ago

Digital life

LinkedIn Tells People if You Look at Their Profile. Here's How to Turn That Off

LinkedIn is a required platform for knowledge workers.

LinkedIn is transparent about tracking users' activity. [ more ]

MobileAppAaily

Artificial intelligence

LinkedIn Launches New AI Chatbot For Jobseekers

LinkedIn has introduced an AI chatbot to help job seekers find better job opportunities and optimize their profiles.

The chatbot can provide information about jobs, company culture, salary averages, and offer career guidance based on user activity. [ more ]

Entrepreneur

Artificial intelligence

LinkedIn Introduces A New Chatbot For Jobseekers | Entrepreneur

LinkedIn is introducing AI-powered features to help job seekers in their search for new opportunities. The features include an AI-powered chatbot and tailored career advice based on a user's LinkedIn feed.

The chatbot provides bullet point answers sourced from LinkedIn's company and industry data, and can answer questions about job listings, company culture, benefits, and more. [ more ]

Medium

Are employed job seekers making it tougher for the jobless to find work?

The job market is highly competitive, with an over-saturation of job seekers and limited positions available.

More than 70 percent of currently employed people are considering or actively pursuing a new job, contributing to the surplus of job seekers. [ more ]

Social Media Today

LinkedIn Adds New Tools for Job Seekers, Including Job Preference Highlights and AI Assistant Tools

LinkedIn has launched new features for job seekers, including job listings by categories and job preference highlights.

LinkedIn's new AI job application assistant tools may be counter-productive for assessing communication skills, but are necessary in the evolving job search landscape. [ more ]

Social Media Today

LinkedIn Adds New Tools for Job Seekers, Including Job Preference Highlights and AI Assistant Tools

LinkedIn has introduced new features for job seekers, including job listings by different categories and job preference highlights.

LinkedIn's new AI job application assistant tools may be counter-productive as employers may prefer assessing a job seeker's communication skills. [ more ]

Entrepreneur

How Both Job Seekers and Employers Can Win the Job Search | Entrepreneur

Job candidates must follow directions in the application process

Carefully reading and following job descriptions is crucial for both job seekers and companies [ more ]

Axios

Job scams skyrocket

Fake job offers are on the rise in the U.S.

Scammers use generative AI and informal work communication to target job seekers. [ more ]

Entrepreneur

The Best Job Sites That Can Also Serve as Your Career Page | Entrepreneur

Using top job sites as your organization's career page can provide significant benefits.

Crafting engaging company profiles on job sites helps attract top talent and enhance your employer brand. [ more ]

ZDNET

Open to work? Three new LinkedIn features make job searching easier than ever

LinkedIn has added new features to enhance job searches, aiming to make the process more efficient for users.

The new features include Job Collections, a Preferences page, and an "I'm interested" button for expressing interest in a company without applying to a specific role. [ more ]

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Yahoo Finance

1 month ago

16 Remote Jobs That Pay at Least $40 Per Hour

The lasting impact of Covid-19 on remote work adoption globally

Strategic approaches for remote job seekers [ more ]

silive

Looking for fair pay and flexibility? New report names the 25 best jobs of 2024

Job seekers are looking for a minimum salary of $75,000 and remote/hybrid work.

'Fair pay' and 'flexibility' are the top factors that increase workplace wellbeing for job seekers. [ more ]

Forbes

Work From Home Or Anywhere: Top 30 Companies For Remote Jobs In 2024

Companies offering work-from-anywhere jobs are highly desirable for job seekers.

Remote work options are ranked as the most important aspect of a job for many workers. [ more ]

The Week

Is the era of remote work over?

Is the great work-from-home era coming to an end?While some executives, like those at Walt Disney and Meta, are pushing employees to show up in person, other companies, especially those in "university towns, tech hubs, and government centers," per , have continued to offer remote positions well into 2023.

Adweek

Marketing

Best Practices for Recruiting in a Shifting Job Market

After an exhausting few years of pandemic-related uncertainty and turbulence, the job market is expected to continue experiencing unpredictability as fears of a recession loom.Jack Kennedy, U.K. and Ireland economist at Indeed, took the stage during Adweek's Brandweek Europe to provide insights on what the next few months might hold in terms of recruiting in the marketing sector.

Hubspot

Why Recruiters Are Reaching Out To Candidates Directly & How to Access This Hidden Job Market

If you're struggling to get in front of hiring managers, it could be because recruiters are shifting away from traditional methods to find candidates.

New York Amsterdam News

NYC politics

Bronx BP Vanessa Gibson and State Labor Department host career fair

Over 500 job seekers attended Bronx Career Fair at Borough Hall

Unemployment rate in Bronx County decreased to 6.60% in 2023 [ more ]

WSJ

4 months ago

Tech industry

Crazy Career Moves? 'Delulu Is the Solulu'

Job seekers are using creative tactics to stand out in their job applications.

Some job seekers believe that being delusional and having a mindset of thinking outside the box can be beneficial in getting hired. [ more ]

www.standard.co.uk

10 months ago

London

Cheaper Boris bike' rides and more bike lanes in bid to get more Londoners cycling

D iscounts on the cost of hiring a Boris bike could be given to low-income Londoners under an ambitious plan to boost cycling in London by a third by 2030.Transport for London wants to increase the number of daily trips by bike from about 1.2m to 1.6m by the end of the decade by expanding the appeal of cycling to a more diverse range of Londoners and moving away from focusing on cycle commuters.

Hubspot

9 months ago

Exploring the Best Resume Formats - The Complete Guide

The content of your resume is as important as the format used in presenting the resume.Put another way, crisp resume content plus the best resume format is the perfect match for getting hired for a role.In this post, you'll learn about the best resume formats, their pros and cons, and when to use each one.

www.thelocal.de

Germany news

Sick notes by telephone to end in Germany

On Wednesday Germany's cabinet signed off in favour of the Skilled Worker Immigration Act, making it easier for qualified foreigners to come to the country.Here's what the draft legislation entails.Published: 30 March 2023 11:31 CEST The legislation, long discussed in parliament, aims to both simplify and speed up the process for skilled foreign workers from outside the EU to come to Germany.

www.thelocal.de

Germany news

German government signs off on sweeping reforms for skilled worker visas

An apprenticeship at a steelmaker brought Steven Maillot from the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean to Eisenhuttenstadt in Germany, a stone's throw from the Polish border.Better pay and better job prospects were the deciding factors for Maillot a relief for ArcelorMittal, where the group's Germany chief Reiner Blaschek acknowledged that attracting young trainees like the 23-year-old is becoming increasingly difficult.

www.thelocal.de

Germany news

How Germany is opening its doors to foreign job seekers amid labour shortage

Engadget

Marketing

A TikTok ban is a lot more complicated than just shutting down the app | Engadget

Disentangling ourselves from TikTok is more complicated than simply banning the app, just ask the state of Maryland.According to a in The Wall Street Journal, it's one of several states that used TikTok's tracking pixel on a government website despite a statewide ban barring TikTok-related software from official devices and networks.

www.independent.co.uk

UK news

What are Jeremy Hunt's benefits changes and when do they start?

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The chancellor has announced the biggest change to our welfare system in a decade, with reforms aimed at supporting more disabled people and jobseekers back into work.In his Budget announced on Wednesday in the Commons, Jeremy Hunt said the UK was proving the doubters wrong and his sweeping policy changes would improve the economic picture.

Apartment Therapy

Williams-Sonoma Is Hiring Remote Seasonal Jobs Ahead of the Holidays

But if your budget is understandably tight this year, Williams-Sonoma has got you covered.

Eater Chicago

Chicago

Staffing Challenges Continue to Cause Chaos for Chicago's Restaurants

The decision to delay made more sense as Fyfe says there was just a heaviness they couldn't shed: "This doesn't feel right, this isn't good," she says.

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Ensuring Eden provides employees with a positive work environment remains important Fyfe who says her experience as a busser has made Fyfe a better restaurant owner and operator.

Slate Magazine

The Mystery of "Remote" Job Listings That Aren't Actually Remote

Amid the boom in remote working spurred by pandemic closures two years ago, job seekers are encountering a frustrating phenomenon: jobs advertised as "remote" when they really aren't.

www.cbc.ca

Canada news

Mountain town employers are having a hard time finding staff. Some are upping the ante | CBC News

Snow might still be on the ground, but summer hiring is well underway for employers in Banff, Canmore and Lake Louise and amid a persistently tight labour market, many are working harder to convince job seekers to apply and to stick around."Our key message is to be competitive," said Michel Dufresne, director of the Job Resource Centre for Banff and Canmore, who's telling employers to raise wages and to give their staff enough time off to enjoy living in the mountain community.

Washington Post

Business

Fake job postings are stealing applicants' money and identities

(Elena Lacey/The Washington Post)Lisa Miner thought she had found the perfect new job: Earlier this year, the dialysis technician got an offer to be an app developer for CVS Health after passing a skills test administered by a purported recruiter who had reached out via a personal Gmail account.But the job wasn't just fake - it was a ploy to steal her money.

Hubspot

6+ Tips for Reducing Job Search Anxiety

Are you feeling anxious about your job search?You're not alone.The competition for jobs is fierce and the search can be grueling.

Social Media Explorer

5 Ways Companies Use Social Media to Find New Candidates - Social Media Explorer

Did you know that social media is now being used by companies to find new candidates?

Deseret News

Finding legitimate work-from-home jobs

As kids head back to school, stay-at-home parents may be looking for ways to supplement income without set hours in an office.

SFGATE

SF real estate

In March, Mortgage Rates Will Have Little Reason to Fall

Getty Images The economic calendar in March is not friendly to mortgage rates.There's not much on it to motivate rates to fall.After rising sharply in February, mortgage rates are more likely to level off or go up a little more.Three dates on the economic calendar will dominate the outlook for mortgage rates:

March 10 will bring the jobs report for February.

Flipboard

Canada news

700 Canada Post Jobs Are Available Across The Country

Attention, job seekers!Canada Post jobs are currently available across the country, and there's even the opportunity to work remotely.Right now, Canada Post is hiring for tons of different positions in cities like Toronto, Calgary and Edmonton, and many roles don't require a degree.

SF Weekly

Surprising Things That May Hurt Your Job Chances - SF Weekly

You've probably heard that you need to dress for the job you want, not your job.But what about all of those other things you do?

TNW | House-Of-Talent

Web development

Why the job you apply for may not be the job you get

When most people apply for jobs, they expect the job description on postings to match the job that will be filled.However, our recently published study examining startup hiring shows that this isn't always the case.Sometimes the job someone applies for might not end up being the same job they're hired for.

Islandtropicaman

Python

Python Example - Write a Python program to find the permutation of an event

In this example let us create a Python program that will find the permutation of an event.

Advocate

Books

LGBTQ+ Books at the Center of Library Controversies in Michigan & Iowa

In rows over LGBTQ+ books, a community in Michigan has raised more than $100,000 to fund its library, while Iowa librarians are fighting against banning such books.

Portland Mercury

Portland

Good Afternoon, News: Portland Cop Joins Extremist Group, Oregon Abortion Rights Not So Safe, and Secret Service Allegedly Erases Jan 6 Evidence

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day-but your help is essential.

Career Karma

Software development

SkillReactor Launches a Virtual Work Experience Platform for Software Developers

What does it take to become a successful programmer?Although technical knowledge is essential, the true test of a programmer is their ability to apply their talents to solve unique issues.

The Independent

UK news

Number of four-day week jobs rises by 90% as UK firms begin trial

The number of jobs offering a four-day week has soared by 90 per cent over the past year, new research has found as a major UK trial kicked off.

The Independent