We talked to hiring experts to find out which questions trip up most job candidates, and the better answers that could win you the job.
Going on a job interview can make you feel like you’re back in school taking an exam. Instead of the “test” having one clear and right answer, however, responding to questions feels like hopeful guesses mixed with uncomfortable posturing.
Pouring yourself into your job isn’t necessarily a bad thing, just as long as you set boundaries.
A recent study conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health found that “more than one in every four Americans say they had a great deal of stress in the previous month.” That would come out to about 115 million Americans, give or take.
Could this startup’s “radically transparent” internal communications system with cameras trained on all employees be the future of work?
The very first thing Ryan Smith says to me is, “it’s probably the furthest thing from the big brother app that you could ever think about.” He knew where my mind was going.
The company’s top marketing guys in North America talk about a changing brand, the new medium of VR, and a new approach to selling phones.
Samsung is getting an image makeover. Historically, the South Korean electronics giant has been seen by Westerners as huge, foreign, inscrutable, and old school. But the company is trying to put forward a different face in its public appearances and TV commercials.
Technology has abolished the “transition zones” between work and leisure—and with them, much of our inspiration.
Remember the last time you found yourself waiting for someone in a bar? Your friend or date was running late, so you whipped out your smartphone to fill up the empty moments, right?
Whether you love it, hate it, or are simply inspired to riff on it, Twitter’s maximum character count matters. And seems to be here to stay.
When Twitter was born in 2006, it was designed to be used via wireless carriers’ text-messaging services. They were (and are) limited to 160 characters. So Twitter’s creators reserved 20 characters for a user name, leaving 140 characters for the post—not yet known as a “tweet”—itself.
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