Career

Cornell Chronicle

Rejected internal applicants twice as likely to quit

Internal job applicants who face rejection are nearly twice as likely to leave their organizations than those who were either …

The Wall Street Journal

These Millennials Are Dumping Their Jobs to Plot New Careers

With several years in the workforce and some savings, some young professionals take an early career break to reassess and …

Galaxy Brain

What If People Don't Want 'A Career?'

In all of my reporting on the future of work, one of the most interesting and potentially profound trends is the growing …

Los Angeles Times

Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

There’s an air of desperation among tech employers this summer. Software talent, it seems, is in such high demand that …

BBC

The rise of never-ending job interviews

Some companies are asking candidates to attend multiple interviews. But too many rounds could be a red flag – and even drive …

Hacker News

30 years old with no career

I’ve been out of high school for almost 12 years. And I’ve never had a job I really loved.

I’ve worked in …

Glenn Gillen

Getting to the Product Manager interview stage

A look at what it’s like on the other side of this review process. The common pitfalls I see. The mistakes people make …

Hacker News

What huge mistake did you make early in your career?

We’ve all been there — a seemingly huge mistake as an intern or Junior developer that you were sure would get you …

Hacker News

How to get back in employment market after working on side projects?

I’ve spent several years working on side projects and would like to return to remote work. I have a bit of management …

Jim Grey

Nine tips for interviewing over Zoom

Don’t let these videoconferencing mistakes be a stumbling block for a potential employer.

The Wall Street Journal

Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates

I’m not inclined to hire a graduate from one of America’s elite universities. That marks a change. A decade ago I …

99% Derisible

Be a star or a janitor.

For most people, especially early in their careers, there’s just not a lot of agency at work. By and large, junior …

Krebs on Security

How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap

One of the oldest scams around — the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data — is on …

The Miscellaneous Stuff Blog

The Best Way to Deal with a Micromanaging Boss

When an employee is placed in a no-win scenario at work, he has few options. He can place the blame for failure on someone …

Bloomberg

How to Quit Your Job in the Great Post-Pandemic Resignation Boom

If you’re ready to leave, here are some tips on engineering a smooth exit.

Fast Company

10 questions to ask in a job interview that will really expose a company's culture

Culture is felt through the behaviors that are reinforced or discouraged on a day-to-day basis on teams. If you want to get a …

Hacker News

What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

I’m an average developer looking for ways to work as little as humanely possible.

Austin Z. Henley

All my career rejections

I’ve been reflecting on rejections lately. I’ve been fortunate to have more successes than I had ever imagined, …

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Want to Learn How Things Really Work at Your New Job? Talk to the People at the Bottom

New research shows that people of all ranks look to low-level peers for information about organizational social norms.

interviewing.io

6 red flags I saw while doing 60+ technical interviews in 30 days

Even though the stories I’ll be sharing come from my marathon of technical interviews, these red flags do not apply …

André Jonas

Remote Work Interviews, Part I: Applying

In the following 2 months I’ve applied to remote positions with over 10 companies hiring remotely such as 1Password, …

Temporary heresy

Talent is largely a myth

With the amount of conversations, conference talks and hype going on around talent, you would expect people will have an …

BBC

The computers rejecting your job application

I wondered: is it fair for a computer alone to accept or reject your job application?

Welcome to the fast-growing world of AI …

Digiday

'Don't care about those perks': Employees are no longer staying at companies for a cool culture

As employees in industries like tech, advertising and publishing have worked from home for the majority of 2020, the perks of …

Benjamin Yolken

Quitting a new job

Two years ago, I did something that I’d never done in my career before- I left a job (at Nuro) only a few months after …

Zain Rizvi

Interview advice that got me offers from Google, Microsoft, and Stripe

In the decade since I’ve lost track of how many hours I’ve spent in the interview room, on both sides of the …

Zain Amro

Working for a startup makes less sense

Today, there’s an interesting startup dilemma that has become more obvious in the collective consciousness of tech …

The Atlantic

Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

But I had started to wonder: Can I really keep this going? I work like a maniac. But even if I stayed at it 12 hours a day, …

Farnam Street

How Performance Reviews Can Kill Your Culture

Performance reviews are designed to motivate and bring the best out of our teams, but they often do the opposite. …