Success
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Hugh Jackman advises new grads that the most powerful career cues are ‘often disguised as failure’
You can be an Oscar-nominated actor; the face of one of the most prolific and highest-grossing action-movie series in history; a well-regarded theater actor and all-around social do-gooder—and still suffer from imposter syndrome. For college graduates, wide-eyed and uncertain of their futures, Hugh Jackman has some comforting words: you’re going to fail, and you’re going
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He started as a part-time Starbucks barista at 17. Now he’s an exec designing the menu
For most people, a part-time barista job while studying is a means to an end: something to top up their bank account and pad their résumé before landing a “real” job. Sam Henderson thought the same when a friend convinced him to apply for a role at a Starbucks in Leicester, U.K., at 17. He
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Diary of a CEO founder says he hired someone with ‘zero’ work experience because she ‘thanked the security guard by name’ before the interview
Job-seekers may believe that an Ivy League degree or Fortune 500 work experience will land them a gig—but who they thank while walking into an interview could be more important than their professional pedigree. Steven Bartlett, the founder and host of The Diary of a CEO podcast, took a chance on an applicant with a
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Trump wants to cut federal loans from college programs that don’t pay off. College cosmetology, fine arts, and music programs are at risk
Colleges and universities may soon have to give students a blunt warning: some of their programs might not pay off. Earlier this month, the Department of Education proposed a new rule that would cut off federal student loan access to college programs whose students earn too little after they graduate. For undergraduate programs, those diploma
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Eventbrite CEO sold her company for $500 million—without a job for the first time since 15, she’s playing chess with a robot and eyeing internships
Twenty years ago, Julia Hartz ditched a budding career at MTV and FX, drove up the coast of California, and bootstrapped ticketing platform Eventbrite with her two cofounders. Now, the longtime CEO wakes up to a blank outlook calendar; Hartz sold her company in a $500 million exit, and is deciding on her next chapter
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Zoom is giving away $150K to ‘solopreneurs’ with no strings attached—as 33 million workers ditch corporate to become their own boss
As AI threatens to wipe out jobs, the American dream—stable employment, a clear ladder to climb, and a company to grow old with—is quietly dying. More people are ditching the 9-to-5to build something of their own. And Zoom is putting $150,000 behind the movement. The $26 billion video conferencing giant is giving away $30,000 each
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Suze Orman once said earning more than $800,000 would make her ‘sick to my stomach’—but that turning down Oprah Winfrey cured her self-doubt
Today, Suze Orman may be known as the confident, no-nonsense, financial powerhouse that she is—but she wasn’t always that way. It was the late 1990s and with one hugely successful book already under her belt, publishing houses were fighting for the contract of her next best-seller. The bidding war for publishing rights to The 9
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CEO writes hundreds of thank you notes to staff and still eats in the break room—which ‘always, for whatever reason, blows new employees away’
In an era of AI avatars and digital overload, something as simple as a handwritten note can feel like a relic of the past. In fact, many Gen Zers can’t even read cursive. But for First Watch CEO Chris Tomasso, old-fashioned notes of appreciation are a ritual. The leader of the over $1 billion-a-year in
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Forget Big Tech: Small businesses will hire nearly 1 million grads in 2026—and some of the hottest roles are gloriously AI-proof
While fresh-faced grads are throwing their hats in the ring for a job at the world’s biggest companies, they could have a good shot at small businesses ramping up hiring. And some of the jobs that they’re recruiting the most for could stand the test of time in the AI revolution. About 974,000 recent graduates
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MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce
Companies betting against entry-level Gen Z talent by automating their roles may be making a costly long-term mistake. That’s the warning from MIT research scientist Andrew McAfee, who co-leads the school’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. Cutting off talent at its source, he argued, doesn’t just shrink today’s workforce—it disrupts the pipeline that produces tomorrow’s