Tequila Turner collected her last regular paycheck in October 2024. Since then she’s traded her steady career in corporate IT for freelance projects and gig work, like delivering for DoorDash. Her income plummeted from six figures to a fraction of that last year, she tells me over the phone between making deliveries. She moved in…
Bozoma Saint John doesn’t shrink away from the spotlight. Saint John, 48, was Netflix’s first Black C-level executive as their chief marketing officer. She became Uber’s first chief branding officer tasked with rehabbing the rideshare company’s image. And she made headlines in 2016 when she shook up the stage at Apple’s annual conference despite not…
Traditional job interview methods that have a candidate tell, rather than show, their strengths may be responsible for employers “missing diamonds in the rough,” says Adam Grant. Instead, he says, interviewers should try incorporating two steps to assess a candidate’s true potential and fit for the job. Grant, a bestselling author and organizational psychologist at…
Seri Thompson has been on the job market for eight months. In that time, she’s applied to over 180 jobs. Some of them are related to her new communications degree, like for social media or marketing jobs. Lately she’s also applied to jobs unrelated to her field, like assistant or retail positions. In the meantime,…
Do you want a job you love, at a company you love, with values you love? Of course you do. That’s the dream for just about everyone. And frankly, companies want the same thing. When employee values align with company values, you get engagement and retention. It’s a win-win. A desire for this “glove-like” fit…
When Priyanka Jain, co-founder and CEO of vaginal microbiome test and care company Evvy, is hiring, she knows what she wants to see in a candidate. She’s looking for someone “who goes above and beyond just what your job title tells you to do,” she says. That could mean including an “Interests” section on your…
