You might be networking all wrong — and it could be costly. In an era of AI-generated applications and a sluggish job market for many desk workers, making connections can be key to standing out and landing a role. While forming solid professional relationships can help, it’s not always easy to know how to start.
My first internship gave me a simple task: Email a press release to a large list of reporters. I followed the meticulous formatting instructions from a binder, and hit send. Minutes later, a supervisor let me know that I had botched this most basic responsibility. I needed to BCC the list of recipients, something I
Bill Gates has warned that the world needs to do more to prepare for a “turbulent AI era” before workers are “displaced or underemployed.” In a nearly 5,900-word blog post published on Wednesday, the Microsoft cofounder said that AI and robotics will eventually reach beyond the white-collar jobs already under pressure from the technology. “In
Workers are retrospectively adding AI skills to their LinkedIn profiles — while remote-work and DEI language is falling out of favor. That is the finding of a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, which analyzed monthly snapshots of 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles. Nearly a fifth of those accounts had retroactively changed the
This intern season, fetching lattes for bosses is out. Teaching bosses how to use AI is in. When Jasreen Toor interned at the agentic human resource company Eightfold AI this summer, her day wasn’t filled with answering phones or taking notes. Instead, she spent most of her time building and then monitoring a Claude agent
How far we get in our careers, we tend to believe, depends on us: our intelligence, our temperament, our hustle. But where we work and the support we get there matter immensely too. Does your company promote from within, or does it hire senior people from elsewhere? Does it spend real money on training and
