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Former VP Kamala Harris says she went through a nine-hour interview to land the job—but she couldn’t escape ‘gold medal depression’ even when she won
Job-seekers complain about “ghost jobs,” five rounds of interviews, and tedious skills tests—but even major leaders are not exempt from the ordeal. Google CEO Sundar Pichai was put through nine interviews and a trick question before securing an SVP product manager role at the $4.5 trillion company. Likewise, former U.S. vice president Kamala Harris revealed…
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Gen Z grad landed a job at LinkedIn by waitressing at a conference full of recruiters and handing out her résumé during breaks—now she works at Google
Basant Shenouda spent six months after graduating from one of Germany’s top universities sliding into recruiters’ DMs on LinkedIn and applying for jobs online—and getting ghosted. So she volunteered to waitress at a conference six hours away, where she handed her résumé to 40 recruiters and landed a job at LinkedIn. Now she’s at Google.…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says electricians and plumbers will be needed by the hundreds of thousands in the new working world
Gen Z keeps being told their chances of landing a job are slim as AI threatens entry-level jobs. But in reality, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says, there are thousands of jobs for young people, thanks to an accelerating boom in data centers. They just have to be willing to go to trade school. “If you’re…
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Cape Verde’s Roberto Lopes was working at a bank when he was recruited on LinkedIn to play soccer—he thought it was spam, now he’s at the World Cup
When Roberto Lopes received a seemingly random LinkedIn message in 2018, he assumed it was spam and ignored it. At the time, Lopes—nicknamed “Pico”—was working at a Dublin bank while playing part-time for Shamrock Rovers, an Irish soccer club. Born to an Irish mother and a Cape Verdean father, he had unknowingly been flagged by…
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‘Work-life balance is a lie’: TIAA’s CEO broke down at a bus terminal after a long work day, then found a better way to think about it
Many professionals struggle with chasing work-life balance—TIAA President and CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett was one of them, until a breakdown in a bus terminal over her intense schedule gave her an epiphany. “Work-life balance is a lie. It never reconciles…so get rid of that,” Duckett recalled the wakeup moment in Fortune’s Titans and Disruptors of…
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Arianna Huffington doesn’t believe in work-life balance but swears by one boundary to switch off from work—and Ralph Lauren’s CHRO has adopted it too
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington built her media empire off the back of 18-hour work days. At one point, collapsing from sheer exhaustion.But even now that she’s a multimillionaire, 75 years old, and running a wellness startup, she still insists there’s no such thing as balance—and there’s only one boundary she sticks to. “I don’t…
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Dario Amodei only has 1 direct report, his chief of staff—and everyone else reports to his sister: ‘It’s incredibly freeing’
Dario Amodei has built Anthropic, the company behind Claude, into one of the most successful startups in history—reaching a staggering $965 billion valuation and positioning the company for an IPO. And all this time, he’s been growing the business while managing just one person: his chief of staff. Every other senior leader at Anthropic reports…
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Meet the CEO of US Polo Assn: He grew up in one of America’s poorest regions and now hosts Prince William and runs a $2.7 billion brand
Polo has long been called the “Sport of Kings”—a world of manicured lawns, champagne, and generational wealth. So you’d be forgiven for thinking the CEO of a $2.7 billion global heritage polo brand comes from old money connections, with an Ivy League education and a corner office inherited rather than earned. But U.S. Polo Assn’s…
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Anne Hathaway says she was spammed with ChatGPT-written thank you notes after hiring a recent role: ‘Nobody on that list gets that job’
Anne Hathaway has a warning for anyone using ChatGPT to help write their job application thank you notes: She can tell. In the age of AI, it’s never been easier to apply for thousands of roles at once. But as the Oscar-winning actress revealed while hiring for a recent role, it’s never been easier to…
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Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer once mocked Google Chrome, calling it a ‘rounding error’—Google CEO says the jab became fuel to keep going
Before Google CEO Sundar Pichai became the leader of the now-$4.5 trillion tech giant, he had to prove his worth as a leader—starting with a browser almost no one believed in. When Chrome launched in 2008, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was the industry dominator, with roughly 60% of global browser usage thanks to being the default…