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If you’re on the hunt for a new job, keep an eye out for signs of an unhealthy work environment during your interviews. Latesha Byrd, CEO and founder of Byrd Career Consulting, shared with Business Insider tips for properly vetting potentially toxic employers. The majority of your life will be […]

Susie Moore was able to quit her six-figure job in tech just two years after starting a successful side hustle as a life coach and consultant. She’s sharing both the email template that secured her first 10 paying clients and tips for getting started. Read more here. Welcome to Success […]

Job sites are continuing to develop resources to help unemployed Americans find work. Indeed, one of the largest job sites in the US, recently added a new virtual interviewing technology to help companies screen a large number of candidates for open roles. Employers can pre-screen, interview, and message candidates directly […]

Artificial intelligence already plays a major role in determining whether you get a job, and companies are racing to implement more AI hiring tools despite major concerns about their fairness and accuracy. To show what that future could look like, a digital artist created an interactive job interview that simulates […]

Most job candidates prepare to answer certain questions before their job interview to present themselves in the best possible light. Other candidates seem to give the worst possible answer for a given situation. We asked HR professionals, recruiters, and CEOs to share some of the worst responses they have heard […]

Boxed CEO and cofounder Chieh Huang interviews every job candidate personally, and says he asks them three questions to make sure they’re not jerks. The questions are meant to test whether a job candidate is curious, open, and can hold a conversation, and to find out how arrogant they are, […]

If you’ve never failed before, you won’t get a job at the home-maintenance startup Setter. That’s a rule developed by Setter cofounder David Steckel, who said if a job candidate hasn’t made any professional mistakes, it’s a red flag. Steckel drew the rule from his personal experience founding the company, […]

More and more employers are evaluating candidates through automated, one-sided phone interviews, the Wall Street Journal reported. The move is meant to lock in potential employees quickly in a tight job market. But candidates say it’s impersonal and frustrating. Desperate employers in a tight job market are trying out a […]

Jason Brown, the cofounder and CEO of the personal-finance app Tally, asks every potential hire, “As a human, are you happy?” It’s Brown’s way of finding out whether the applicant is aligned with Tally’s mission and has personal motivations for wanting to work there. Applicants who can pinpoint the things […]

The advice to “dress for the job you want, not the job you have” has a major flaw, according to one expert. Senior leaders at a company have earned “a huge bank of credibility” to wear whatever they want,” a fashion-blog founder, Kat Griffin, told The New York Times – […]

Questions during a job interview don’t always have to do with the job itself. At Beeswax, an ad-tech startup in New York, potential hires are often grilled on the last thing they “geeked out” over and where friends and family would consider them an expert. The questions are used to […]

Job interviews are stressful, and sometimes you may not give the best answer to a question. At The Cut, workplace advice columnist Alison Green suggests that the best way to deal with a question you flubbed is to clarify your answer in a thank-you email to the interviewer. Job interviews […]

Having a bad boss is a perfectly understandable reason to want to find a new job. However, at The Cut, workplace advice columnist Alison Green suggests being tactful when describing your old boss during a job interview. In fact, you probably shouldn’t mention your boss at all. It’s an unfortunate […]

Recruiting platform Greenhouse has raised $US50 million in a series D funding round led by Riverwood Capital. The money will be used to scale the company’s recently launched diversity and inclusion feature, which was created in conjunction with consulting firm Paradigm The feature surfaces “nudges” or small reminders in real […]

Netflix encourages employees to interview at other companies, and to talk with their managers about what they learn. The company’s former chief talent officer, Patty McCord, says it can help you learn how much you’re worth and clarify your professional goals. It can even help you find people to recruit […]

Where do you see yourself in five years? What is your biggest weakness? Why should we hire you? If you’ve interviewed for enough jobs, you’ve probably answered those questions so many times you could do it in your sleep. They’re cliche, they’re predictable, and much of the time, they fail […]