Tag: Employment & Career
You can now ‘enhance’ your LinkedIn Profile with AI-written ‘suggestions’
LinkedIn is the latest platform to hop on the generative AI bandwagon. The company is adding AI-powered “writing suggestions” and job descriptions to its service as it looks for new ways to infuse AI into its platform. The writing suggestions are meant to make it easier to fill out key…
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The gender-pay-gap Twitter bot returns to call out brands for IWD
It’s International Women’s Day 2023 and women worldwide still earn an average of 77 cents for every dollar men make. The United Nations predicts it will take 257 years at the current rate of progress to close the gender pay gap. This is a deeply rooted societal issue with many…
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Yelp is making it easier to manage quotes for home projects
Yelp is offering users a more refined way to keep tabs on communications with service professionals when they have a problem to fix or want to make some home improvements. Through the Projects tab in the Yelp app, you’ll be able to create, manage and organize jobs. Yelp says that…
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Hitting the Books: AI could help shrink America’s gender wage gap
Women have faced gender-based discrimination in the workforce throughout history, denied employment in all but a handful of subservient roles, regularly ignored for promotions and pay raises — and rarely ever compensated at the same rates as their male peers. This long and storied socioeconomic tradition of financially screwing over…
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Hitting the Books: What goes on at a summer camp for YouTube Gaming kidfluencers
In the first days of social media, to build a personal brand online you mostly just needed a basic working knowledge of html. In 2022, however, the influencer marketing industry’s reach is estimated at around $16.4 billion. With so much money to be made, it’s little wonder that an entire…
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Hitting the Books: Dodge, Detroit and the Revolutionary Union Movement of 1968
After decades on the decline intro, America's labor movement is undergoing a massive renaissance with Starbucks, Amazon and Apple Store employees leading the way. Though the tech sector has only just begun basking in the newfound glow of collective bargaining rights, the automotive industry has a long been a hotbed…
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