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When You Apply for a Job Now, You’re Competing With Non-Human Entities

When You Apply for a Job Now, You’re Competing With Non-Human Entities

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As if the job market weren’t already bad enough, applicants are now forced to compete with AI-generated employment seekers. As CBS News reports, scam artists are using AI to cook up headshots and write fake résumés and sites to fit the specifics of a given job opening. Sometimes, those AI scammers end up getting hired — and once they’re there, they can steal trade secrets and sabotage a company’s systems with malware. A few months ago, Dawid Moczadlo, the co-founder of the cybersecurity firm Vidoc, posted a now-viral video on LinkedIn showing him interviewing a candidate who he realized was using some sort of AI filter to obscure their face. Moczaldo asked the seemingly scamming candidate to put their hand in front of their face to see if it would “break” the deepfake filter. When the person refused, he ended the call immediately. Imagine interviewing a candidate who looks like a very strong coder. Almost extending an offer. But turns out, the candidate is a deepfake. This actually happened with a startup called Vidoc Security – …

Drop in teacher job adverts as falling rolls and cuts bite

Drop in teacher job adverts as falling rolls and cuts bite

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More from this theme Recent articles More than one-third of primary schools and four in 10 secondaries are expecting to reduce their numbers of staff next year, amid falling pupil numbers and tightening budgets. The annual teacher recruitment and retention report by Teacher Tapp and SchoolDash, funded by Gatsby Foundation, was published on Thursday. It combines national data such as job advert monitoring with daily survey responses from over 10,000 teachers, to give a “comprehensive picture” of the teacher labour market in England. The report shows cumulative job adverts for secondary school teaching roles are 31% lower this year than last year, and 22% lower than before the pandemic. The report suggests teachers are less inclined to change roles, following a surge in turnover that followed the pandemic. But at the same time many schools – particularly in areas like London – are anticipating a future decline in pupil numbers and are responding with “more cautious staffing plans”, it said. The report suggests this is further exacerbated by “serious budgetary pressures” schools are facing. It …

Job Candidate Invoices Company For Interviews And Assessments

Job Candidate Invoices Company For Interviews And Assessments

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These days, with the job market in absolute shambles and the recruiting process nothing short of chaotic, a lot of job hunters are coming away with horror stories of facing multiple rounds of interviews and doing free work on a trial basis. That’s exactly what happened to one candidate who shared their experience on Reddit to try to help others in the same position. A job candidate decided to invoice a company after they put them through seven rounds of interviews and two assessments. “I’m in the trenches of the hiring process,” the Redditor revealed in their post. “This was my second time going through seven interviews and not getting the job. The first time around, they had a valid reason and we said our goodbyes. Left on great terms, they referred me to some other places.” Things weren’t quite as amicable after his latest interviews with a company. “This particular time though, I had seven interviews and two assessments, which is way too much ‘free work’ to ask,” they explained. “One assessment I get …

Startup Investors Foaming at the Mouth To Carve Up Your Job With AI

Startup Investors Foaming at the Mouth To Carve Up Your Job With AI

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If there’s one throughline linking us to our ancestors at the birth of industrial society, it’s the anxiety of automation. Back then it was the robber barons pushing the mechanized loom — and now it’s kids in their 20s founding tech startups. Meet Mercor: the software that might decide whether you get that next job, or end up in the unemployment line. At least, that’s the hope for deep-pocketed investors who lavished the startup with $100 million in a recent fundraising round. With that backing, Mercor’s valuation has skyrocketed to a massive $2 billion, which is even more eye-catching when you learn that the median age of the startup’s employees is 22. Mercor is an AI human resources platform that matches candidates to jobs, even automating the interview process. The company says it wants to “solve the hardest problem in capitalism: matching human ability to its greatest use.” Sounds reasonable, except its “matching” is done by an unsupervised algorithm, and that “greatest use” turns out to be temporary contract work. The majority of roles posted on …

One of Elon Musk’s DOGE Boys Was Fired by Previous Job for Leaking Company Secrets

One of Elon Musk’s DOGE Boys Was Fired by Previous Job for Leaking Company Secrets

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A teenage member of billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE boys — a youthful entourage currently slicing its way through the federal government — was previously fired from an internship after being accused of leaking sensitive data to a competitor. The 19-year-old high school grad Edward Coristine, also known by the online moniker “Big Balls,” was “terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors,” according to a June 2022 message reviewed by Bloomberg. It’s yet another sign that Musk did practically zero vetting while building out his A-team of young men who are now plundering a growing number of government agencies. Should we really let a teen, who was literally fired for leaking data, loose on huge swathes of highly sensitive government data, let alone without the required security clearances? The news comes after fellow DOGE lackey Marko Elez unexpectedly resigned on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal revealed a litany of extremely racist social media posts. However, it remains unclear whether Elez departed due to the racist messaging or for ransacking the US Treasury Department’s payments system and pushing through …

Google Unveils a Digital Marketing & E-Commerce Certificate: 7 Courses Will Help Prepare Students for an Entry-Level Job in 6 Months

Google Unveils a Digital Marketing & E-Commerce Certificate: 7 Courses Will Help Prepare Students for an Entry-Level Job in 6 Months

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Sev­er­al years ago, Google launched a series of Career Cer­tifi­cates that will “pre­pare learn­ers for an entry-lev­el role in under six months.” Their first cer­tifi­cates focused on Project Man­age­ment, Data Ana­lyt­ics, User Expe­ri­ence (UX) Design, IT Sup­port and IT Automa­tion. And they have since released a cer­tifi­cate ded­i­cat­ed to Dig­i­tal Mar­ket­ing & E‑Commerce, which incor­po­rates train­ing on lever­ag­ing AI to enhance mar­ket­ing strate­gies and e‑commerce oper­a­tions. Offered on the Cours­era plat­form, the Dig­i­tal Mar­ket­ing & E‑Commerce Pro­fes­sion­al Cer­tifi­cate con­sists of sev­en cours­es, all col­lec­tive­ly designed to help stu­dents “devel­op dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing and e‑commerce strate­gies; attract and engage cus­tomers through dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing chan­nels like search and email; mea­sure mar­ket­ing ana­lyt­ics and share insights; build e‑commerce stores, ana­lyze e‑commerce per­for­mance, and build cus­tomer loy­al­ty.” The cours­es include: In total, this pro­gram “includes over 190 hours of instruc­tion and prac­tice-based assess­ments, which sim­u­late real-world dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing and e‑commerce sce­nar­ios that are crit­i­cal for suc­cess in the work­place.” Along the way, stu­dents will learn how to use tools and plat­forms like Can­va, Con­stant Con­tact, Google Ads, Google Ana­lyt­ics, Hoot­suite, Hub­Spot, …

Why Your Job Hunt Should Be a Quest

Why Your Job Hunt Should Be a Quest

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Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. “My job is a Kafkaesque nightmare,” a young friend told me. I understood him to  be referring to Franz Kafka’s famous 1915 surrealist novella, The Metamorphosis, in which the protagonist, Gregor Samsa, is trapped in a life as a traveling salesman that he finds monotonous and meaningless. “Day in, day out—on the road,” Gregor reflects. “I’ve got the torture of traveling, worrying about changing trains, eating miserable food at all hours, constantly seeing new faces, no relationships that last or get more intimate.” His life seems no more significant than that of, well, maybe a cockroach that mindlessly scurries from place to place and ultimately dies in complete obscurity. And this is where the author’s surreal genius enters: Gregor actually turns into a giant bug (often rendered in pictorial adaptations as a cockroach). I assumed that my friend was making a figurative comparison—and didn’t think I needed to check whether he had met Gregor’s fate. …

Chick-Fil-A Application Requires Applicants To Record A Video Explaining Why They Want The Job

Chick-Fil-A Application Requires Applicants To Record A Video Explaining Why They Want The Job

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While filling out an online job application to work at Chick-fil-A, an applicant was stunned by a bizarre prompt that required a video response.  The Chick-fil-A job application required applicants to record a 30-second video explaining why they wanted to work there. The applicant posted a screenshot of the ludicrous question to the subreddit, r/antiwork. “Please upload a 30-second video explaining why you want to work a Chick-fil-A,” it reads. The Redditor suggested that the “Christian anti-gay chicken” restaurant wanted these videos so they could “profile” potential employees before they are even invited for an interview. fizkes | Shutterstock RELATED: Customer Criticizes Chick-fil-A Worker After He Typed A ‘Racial Slur’ On His Receipt — But People Believe The Worker Is Not At Fault Others online agreed that the question was unusual and questioned the motives of Chick-fil-A. “This is a way to circumvent profiling, whether, racist, ageist, or homophobic. They can’t ask so they wanna have a looksies,” one Redditor theorized. “This sounds suspiciously like they want to check for certain characteristics they want to …

Social media feud with food influencer costs chef his job

Social media feud with food influencer costs chef his job

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more San Francisco Michelin-starred chef Geoffrey Lee stepped down from his leadership roles at three prominent restaurants —Ju-Ni, Handroll Project, and the newly opened Hamburger Project — on Friday, January 3, following a publicized social media clash with food influencer Kathleen Ensign. According to The San Francisco Standard, the social media showdown began in December after Ensign posted a lukewarm review of Hamburger Project, calling the smashburger “good but not great” and rating it a 7.2 out of 10. Ensign’s critique, shared on Instagram and TikTok, triggered a series of escalating responses from Lee, including personal attacks on her social media posts unrelated to the restaurant. According to Ensign, Lee’s messages included comments about her weight, appearance, and even a voice memo from his child …

CEO Says Work Weeks Should Be Seventy Hours

CEO Says Work Weeks Should Be Seventy Hours

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Most people struggle with adhering to the standard 40-hour work weeks, but a tech CEO has suggested that instead of listening to the mass cries for better work-life balance and employers realizing that overworking their staff won’t lead to better results, companies should instead require their employees spend even more hours in the office.  Despite the overwhelming research and data that suggests otherwise, Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of a tech company called Infosys, stands by his work ethic. A tech CEO claimed that work weeks should be 70 hours because he ‘doesn’t believe in work/life balance.’ According to TechSpot, the Indian entrepreneur faced a bit of criticism after claiming that there are benefits to working every hour that you’re awake. He had previously insisted that young people should work 70-hour weeks and doubled down on those comments by saying that he doesn’t “believe in work/life balance.” In October 2023, Murthy explained that young people should work twelve-hour days for the “next 20 years, 50 years, whatever it is,” out of respect and a sense of …