Wisconsin Company Implants Microchips in Employees
iLexx/Getty Images Three Square Market, a Wisconsin-based “micro-market” manufacturer, will become the first company in the nation to implant microchips in its employees. The RFID chips will be...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines Maintenance Workers Picket to End Outsourcing
Pexels Maintenance workers for American Airlines are demonstrating outside Terminal D at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport today. Hundreds of Transport Workers Union members are picketing to ask...
View ArticleTech’s Culture Problem Will Make You Question the Value of a 6-Figure Salary
Pexels Tech jobs famously offer impressive paychecks, especially at top employers like Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. But a spate of stories in recent years has drawn attention to one downside of...
View ArticlePayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: These 9 Psychological Tricks Will Get You Hired
RichVintage/Getty Images By the time you get to the interview phase, you’ve already beat out perhaps hundreds of fellow candidates. But to get hired, you need to cross one last hurdle: impressing the...
View ArticleBlack Women’s Equal Pay Day: When Black Women’s Pay ‘Catches Up’
wocintechchat.com/Flickr The gender pay gap is worse for women of color. Black women who work full-time in the U.S. typically earn 63 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men, according...
View ArticleNeed a Job? Amazon Is Hiring 50,000 Workers on Wednesday
Tony Webster/Flickr Amazon added 110,000 employees in 2016, in large part due to massive hiring at its fulfillment centers. On Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, they’ll up that tally by 50,000 jobs. The company...
View ArticleADP: Employers Added 178,000 Jobs to Private Payrolls in July
Private-sector employers added 178,000 jobs in July, according to payroll processor ADP. Prior to the ADP National Employment Report’s release, economists polled by Reuters were predicting the addition...
View ArticleProtect the Earth From Aliens and Earn 6 Figures at This Rare NASA Job
RichVintage/Getty Images Space exploration comes with risk, some of it too small to see with the naked eye. If you want to help mitigate that risk — and maybe even save the earth from alien invaders —...
View ArticleDon’t Want to Ask for a Raise? Try These 5 Tricks to Make More Money
New Old Stock Seventy-five percent of respondents to PayScale’s survey who asked for a raise received some sort of pay increase. But even knowing that might not be enough to make you feel comfortable...
View ArticleJobs Report: Economy Added 209,000 Jobs in July; Unemployment Ticked Down to...
brownpau/Flickr This morning’s jobs report from the Labor Department beat economists’ predictions, showing the addition of 209,000 jobs last month. Prior to the release of the report, economists polled...
View ArticlePayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: This Daily Habit Will Change Your Career
Wil Stewart/Unsplash How much of your workday do you spend treading water, doing the bare minimum, just getting by? It’s not necessarily because you’re lazy or even because you’re burned out. Modern...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Why the ‘Anti-Diversity Manifesto’ Googler Is Wrong Will...
Affiliate/Flickr This weekend, Motherboard reported on an anti-diversity manifesto written by a software engineer at Google and distributed internally at the company. The 10-page document, which you...
View ArticleThis Is the Worst Career Advice Ever, According to a Career Development...
Contemplating a career change? Don’t pick your next career off a “hot jobs” list. While occupational outlook data can be helpful to people picking a track, it’s not the end-all, be-all of career...
View Article7 Things to Do When You’re About to Get Fired
retrorocket/Getty Images What do the most successful people in the world have in common? Most of them have been fired at some point in their careers. Seriously, all your heroes — Oprah, Steve Jobs,...
View ArticleHere It Is: The Worst Job in the World. (Apply Now?)
Ian Espinosa/Unsplash Are you a dog-loving, valid driver’s license-holding, non-smoking aesthete who’s organized, humble and willing to whip up delicious meals or swim out into the ocean after a...
View ArticlePayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Employers Who Ask for Pay Stubs During Salary...
alvarez/Getty Images Job interviews can be demoralizing, even when things are going well. Why? Because you can only control half of the process, at most — the part relating to your own behavior. Things...
View ArticleOnly Super Crafty People Will Attempt This Amazing DIY Mini Fridge
Natural Nerd/Imgur Are you tired of trudging all the way to the break room for a frosty-cold soda and perfectly chilled candy bar? (Are such luxuries unheard of in your office anyway?) If you’re a...
View ArticleHow to Unstick Your Stuck Job Search
Pexels Unemployment is hovering around a 16-year low, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who wants a job has one — or that an extended job search is any less stressful than it was in the depths of the...
View ArticleA Disturbing Number of Americans Find Their Workplace Hostile or Threatening
topgold/Flickr Nearly one-fifth of American workers said that their work environment was hostile or threatening, according to a new study from RAND Corp — a “disturbingly high” share, per researchers....
View Article10 Companies With Flexible Jobs for Working Parents
Unsplash/Pexels America is a tough place for working parents. Lack of paid family leave, expensive childcare options and corporate cultures that encourage constant work often leave parents scrambling....
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