Why Do Some Companies Interview Candidates for Fake Jobs?
“Ghost jobs” are prevalent in tech, finance and media, according to a recent survey. Getty Images When Ashley Burns left his media job helping build a prominent platform covering the…
US job growth slowed to 175K jobs in April
US employers increased their payrolls by 175,000 in April — a notable slowdown from the average 276,000 new jobs per month created so far this year. Last month’s pace of…
HSBC CEO Noel Quinn Resigns, Leaving One of the Top Banking Jobs Open
Noel Quinn speaks at the Global Financial Leaders Investment Summit in Hong Kong on Nov. 2, 2022. PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images The British bank HSBC today (April 30) announced…
India’s Ola removes CEO in four months, cuts 180 jobs in profitability push
Ola has let go its chief executive, Hemant Bakshi, merely four months after appointing him to the post, and is cutting about 180 additional jobs, a source familiar with the…
Mayor Eric Adams reveals new ‘green-collar’ jobs plan • Brooklyn Paper
Mayor Adams revealed a new ‘green-collar’ jobs plan for the city. File photo courtesy of Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news,…
Instagram cuts 60 jobs, eliminating a layer of management at the company
Instagram has cut 60 technical program manager positions, eliminating a layer of management at the company, according to a new report from The Information. The impacted employees have two months…
Initial US employment reports overstated by 439,000 jobs in 2023
There’s something wrong with previous U.S. jobs reports. The government quietly erased 439,000 jobs through November 2023, a closer look at the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows. That means…
Fact check: Biden makes false claims about the debt and deficit in jobs speech
Washington CNN — During a Friday speech about the September jobs report, President Joe Biden delivered a rapid-fire series of three false or misleading claims – falsely saying that he…
JOBS Act a win for startups and economy
Editor’s Note: Amy M. Wilkinson is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She…