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LinkedIn’s new CEO Daniel Shapero says the company you keep has a bigger impact on your career than job titles
Daniel Shapero was named CEO of LinkedIn this week, stepping into the role long held by Ryan Roslansky. But after nearly two decades at the Microsoft-owned company, Shapero says he didn’t climb to the top by chasing titles—he did it by choosing the right people. “The best career decisions that I’ve ever made have been
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Gen Z graduates’ best shot at good pay and homeownership isn’t in New York or L.A.—it’s Omaha and Dallas
College graduates are turning their tassels and searching for cities with ample job opportunities as AI swipes white-collar roles. But popular hotspots like New York City and Los Angeles may not be their best bet—they may have better luck kick-starting their adult lives in less glitzy cities. The top 10 best big U.S. cities for
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Elon Musk thinks college is ‘basically for fun’—but his former Tesla HR chief tells Gen Z even their liberal arts degrees are more valuable than ever
Gen Z’s relationship with higher education has never been more fraught. Soaring tuition costs and a brutal entry-level job market have left many young people questioning whether getting a degree was worth it at all. But Valerie Capers Workman, who served as vice president of people at Tesla, has a sharply different message for the
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Craving work-life balance is a huge red flag, says Fortune 500 CEO—and like Barack Obama, he happily works through the weekends
While millennial and Gen Z workers consistently rank work-life balance as their number one priority, Iñaki Ereño, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest healthcare companies, says if you’re obsessing over balance, your problem isn’t the hours. It’s the job. “When the balance of your life becomes a topic, then you have a
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells Gen Z that if they want to be successful, they have to ‘pay their dues’ first
Gen Z has a long checklist for their early careers: solid pay, work-life balance, and a trajectory that won’t be wiped out by AI. But according to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, the dream of landing a great job straight out of college is the first thing that needs to go—because it almost never works that
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Apple just named its next CEO—and Tim Cook is passing down the same advice Steve Jobs once gave him
Apple just named its next CEO, who will be taking the reins from Tim Cook this fall: longtime insider John Ternus. He inherits the $4 trillion company that became a global icon under late cofounder Steve Jobs, and Cook says he’d offer his successor the same advice Jobs gave him when he stepped into the
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Jeff Bezos once gave Eva Longoria and the admiral behind Osama bin Laden’s capture $100 million—but she says you don’t need wealth to give back
A lot of people talk about changing the world. But Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, gave Eva Longoria $50 million to actually do it. And two years on, she says the biggest myth still surrounding philanthropy is that you have to be rich to do it. “One of the biggest misconceptions about philanthropy is that impact
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Billionaire Connie Ballmer just donated $80 million to support NPR after Trump cut $1.1 billion from public broadcasting
After an exceptionally tough year for public media, Connie Ballmer, billionaire philanthropist and wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, donated $80 million to support NPR’s future. “We need fact-based journalism, and we need local journalism,” Ballmer told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Saturday. Ballmer is an avid NPR listener and said
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI assistants will act more like overbearing managers rather than job destroyers: ‘They’ll be micromanaging you’
Tech leaders are split on how AI will shake up the world of work. While some CEOs are staunch believers that a white-collar jobs armageddon is imminent, others say it’ll supercharge humans in their professional lives. Jensen Huang, the chief executive of $4.8 trillion giant Nvidia, believes AI agents will act more like overbearing managers
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Parents are so panicked about the job market they’re paying career coaches $15,000 years before their kids graduate from college
Career coaches often tell college students to start looking for jobs months before turning the tassel. But in an increasingly brutal job market, some parents are planning years ahead of when their kid receives a diploma. While the average college tuition today costs more than $38,000 a year, anxious parents are betting thousands more will