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Amazon’s near sweatshops and awful conditions: It doesn’t have to be this way
Labor conditions at Amazon and Wal-Mart are like the pre-New Deal era. These reforms, working elsewhere, would help...
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Bill Gates: Yes, robots really are about to take your jobs
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates isn't going to sugarcoat things: The increasing power of automation technology is going to put a lot of people out of work.
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The Most Popular Job In Every State
Some jobs are disproportionately concentrated in certain states. Fashion designers flock to New York, Texas has an outsize share of petroleum engineers, and Floridians are much more likely to be motorboat operators than are other Americans. We made a map that shows the most over-represented job in each state, using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' recently released May 2013 "Occupational Employment Statistics." Each state has far more of these jobs per capita than the nation as a whole.
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24 People Who Applied for the World's Toughest Job Were In for Quite a Surprise
Here's a pretty cool project from Mullen for a client we won't immediately reveal, lest we spoil the surprise. (Scroll down to the bottom of credits, or watch the video to find out.) The Boston agency posted this job listing online for a
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Half of all jobs will be automated by 2034, and no Government is prepared.
Almost half of all jobs could be automated by computers within two decades and "no government is prepared" for the tsunami of social change that will follow, according to the Economist. The magazine's 2014 analysis of the impact of technology paints a pretty bleak picture of the future.
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How To Hack Hiring
Everyone knows there’s an arms race for tech talent. Companies in every industry, not just tech, need this talent to survive. Take banking for example. Bank of America has 263 unfilled technical jobs as of April 8. In Silicon Valley, Facebook and Amazon hire thousands of engineers every year, and 73 percent of U.S. companies expect to hire more tech talent in 2014...
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Technology Is Making These 10 Jobs Obsolete
HR software provider CIPHR created an infographic outlining 10 different professions that technological advances are rendering obsolete. They range from expected, like travel agents, to surprising.
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Amazon Is a Time Thief, by an Amazon Employee
Amazon is the future of retail, so it's always useful to hear from real live Amazon warehouse workers about what their jobs are really like. Today: one worker details just how much Amazon values its own time over that of its employees.
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Are you paid to look busy?
Ask yourself, says a notorious ‘Occupy’ academic, should your job exist?
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National Weather Service Scrambles To Fill Vacancies Before Summer Extreme Weather Strikes
The National Weather Service currently has a staggering 548 vacancies, or 15 percent of its staff positions empty, leading many to wonder it the agency has enough employees to keep the country informed about extreme weather.
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Samsung is hiring to build a new mobile video service
Samsung is hiring engineers to build a new video service, which could replace the company’s existing transactional video offering. The company also just hired an executive from Vdio, the Rdio-owned video service that at one point was meant to take on Netflix but shut down late last year.
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Hewlett-Packard could axe up to 16,000 jobs
US computer giant Hewlett-Packard is to cut an additional 11,000 to 16,000 jobs as part of its restructuring plan. The new cuts, announced as HP revealed a slump in revenues, come on top of 34,000 post reductions planned under a programme begun in 2012.
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Tesla Motors Now California’s Biggest Auto-Industry Employer
Tesla Motors is now the largest auto-industry employer in California - employing more than 6000 people within the state, with a further 500 jobs expected to be added to that figure before the end of 2014.
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Secret Life of a Country Club Caddy
From faking holes-in-one for the promise of tips, to indulging the every whim of spoiled suburbanites, the golf world’s silent assistants tell all.
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A Measure of Your Team’s Health: How You Treat Your “Idiot”
Every team has someone who at the bottom of its bell curve: an individual who has a hard time keeping up with other team members. By my observation, how your team members treat that person is a significant indicator of …Read »
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A job waiting tables after college could suppress your wages for years
It has become relatively common, even unremarkable, for young people to spend a time after they’ve graduated college waiting tables, doing clerical work, or working retail. Nearly half of a group of four-year-degree graduates surveyed by McKinsey last year said they had a job that didn’t require a degree. And many are advised to take any job they can find, even if it’s one that doesn’t require a degree, to build their resumes and skills.
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The jobs where you could be making more money, in one chart
If you wonder whether you're over- or underpaid at your job, here's one place to start. Reddit user Dan Lin has created one (very long) chart that shows 820 US occupations and how much they pay. Jobs are color-coded by their industry — a few high-paying health care (fuchsia) jobs are clustered at the top, while food service jobs (green) tend to be toward the bottom. Check it out below, or click on the image for a version where you can zoom in.
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What makes a call center great?
Do you have what it takes for a successful and fulfilling call center career? Learn which traits make for a great career in the call center industry.
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How Can You Recruit For Your Stem Jobs?
Adecco Engineering & Technology's newest infographic shares a wealth of knowledge on the science of recruiting to fill STEM jobs across the industry.
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‘The end of work’ with Ray Kurzweil, Andrew McAfee, Chris Lydon
The jobless economy: a fully automated, engineered, robotic system that doesn’t need you, or me either. Anything we can do, machines can do better — surgery, warfare, farming, finance. What’s to do? Shall we smash the machines, or go to the beach, or finally learn to play the piano?
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