Tag: Careers
U.S. Olympic gold medalist track star went from $200,000-a-year sponsorship to $12-an-hour internship | Fortune
Even for Olympic gold medalists, financial security isn’t guaranteed. Just ask Lauryn Williams. The Olympic track and bobsled champion earned $200,000 a year at...
Do you know your attachment style? It could be the reason you’re not getting promoted at work | Fortune
Forget bad interviews or office politics—the biggest threat to your next promotion might have formed in childhood, long before you started working. Psychologists warn...
Gen Z’s hiring nightmare is really about discrimination. ‘Youngism’ is worse than AI when it comes to eating entry-level jobs | Fortune
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell put it bluntly after the Fed’s rate cut on Wednesday: recent graduates are feeling the squeeze. At his press conference, he...
Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career’—he founded Reddit
However, for Alexis Ohanian, the start of Reddit all began at table 19 of his local Waffle House.
As a soon-to-be graduate from the University...
Billionaire Mark Cuban says that ‘companies don’t understand’ how to implement AI right now—and that’s an opportunity for Gen Z coming out of school
However, in practice, 95% of all generative AI pilots are flopping, and it’s left a gaping opportunity for Gen X and baby boomer bosses...
Boomer NYU professor says Gen Z’s lazy label comes from zero faith in the payoff of hard work—and a fear that the world will end in 20 years anyway
“Gen Z no reason to believe that they’re ever going to have economic security,” Suzy Welch, professor of management practice at New York...
Before ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ Henry Golding swept salon floors at 14 for $32 a day and worked as a travel host on his way to stardom
Many Hollywood stars rose to A-list status by acting from gig to gig since childhood, rising to stardom after years of countless auditions. But...
Gen Z want ‘secure’ jobs in healthcare—but this CEO left the industry after realizing he could make millions getting Americans to eat more fruit instead
For many young workers, today’s job market makes a straight career path feel like a luxury. Luckily, healthcare-related fields have little to worry about,...
Billionaire Epic CEO Judy Faulkner built her $5.7 billion-a-year software firm in a basement. She says not getting an MBA was a ‘really good thing’
For Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner, CEO of Epic Systems, whose software powers many of the U.S.’s top hospitals, the answer is simple: a...
Ex-Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation
As undergraduate degrees have lost their payoffs thanks to AI, young people have turned to advanced schooling to unlock jobs with salaries exceeding $200,000...
