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Silicon Valley isn't the only place offering workers happy hours, game rooms, and free lunches. Job search app ZipRecruiter examined its vast database of job listings to identify where in the country workers were most likely to find employment with a company offering unusual perks like laundry or catered breakfasts. → Read More
When women make it to the top of the corporate ladder, they do so 1.4 years faster than men, on average, a recent study by LinkedIn found. But few women ever actually make it to such lofty positions within an organization, and, if they do aspire to such roles, they have to move fast, otherwise they'll likely never hold a director or C-Suite level role. → Read More
CNBC Make It analyzed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to identify 15 occupations that allow people to indulge their creative side and that also come with large paychecks amounting to as much as $92,000 a year, well above the median salary of $46,800 U.S workers earned in 2018, according to the BLS. → Read More
If your worst fear involves fluorescent lights, a cubicle, and a stack of documents to be filled out — don't worry. You don't have to sacrifice a comfortable salary and lifestyle for the pleasure of not being chained to a desk for 40-plus hours a week. CNBC Make It analyzed occupational data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to discover which jobs pay annual salaries of at least $75,000 and… → Read More
An estimated 10.7 million American workers will skip work Sunday night or Monday to watch the series finale of Game of Thrones, according to a new poll by the Workforce Institute at Kronos. → Read More
Peakon examined its database of more than 34 million worker survey responses, which included information from more than 36,000 departing employees, to see if they could predict which employees are likely to resign, based on their replies, and when they would do so. It found that unhappy workers tend to quit within nine months because of four key reasons. → Read More
CNBC Make It analyzed occupational data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to discover which healthcare jobs pay the most without requiring a Ph.D. The resulting 14 roles range from helping care for newborn babies to treating communication disorders to designing artificial limbs, and some require only an associate's degree to land. The best part? Not only are all these jobs offering median… → Read More
To become as prolific an author as Danielle Steel, you'd need an almost superhuman level of energy and very, very little sleep. The 71-year-old writer, whose work has earned her a Guinness World Record for spending the most consecutive time on a bestseller list—390 weeks or 7.5 years—told Glamour that she works 20 to 22 hours a day. And when's she feeling behind, a full 24 hours. → Read More
Every city that made the list paid workers at least $11 an hour. → Read More
Surprisingly, big coastal cities aren't the worst offenders. → Read More
Glassdoor analyzed more than 71,000 open job listings at tech companies that require knowledge of code, software or data to find the 10 highest paying roles workers can hold within the tech industry. → Read More
Glassdoor analyzed its vast database of job listings and discovered that these 14 companies have dramatically upped their number of open positions this month, indicating that they're on a hiring spree and eager to secure new talent. → Read More
FlexJobs analyzed the total number of state-based remote job listings posted in 2018 to find the top 15 states where workers stand the best chance of landing a work-from-home gig. California, Texas and New York led the pack. → Read More
Only about a fourth of hiring managers ever actually receive thank-you notes from applicants, but 80% find such messages helpful when reviewing candidates. That means if you're not writing one, its likely the employer has not only noticed but are now comparing you against the applicant who did go the extra mile. That's why it pays to be cautious and always send one. → Read More
CNBC combed through data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to find the 15 occupations that will experience the biggest decline from now through 2026, losing more than a fifth of all their workers. → Read More
CNBC Make It analyzed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to find the ten occupations that pay workers the largest salaries and don't require college coursework, an associate's or a bachelor's degree as a qualification for employment. Topping the list are transportation, storage and distribution managers and nuclear power reactor operators. → Read More
CareerCast analyzed its database as well as information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics find the 10 best occupations for workers who don't want to deal with deadline stress. All 10 offer workers an ideal blend of low deadline pressure, competitive pay, rapid hiring, and comfortable working conditions. → Read More
Comparably analyzed more than 8,000 tech workers' salary records to find the 10 jobs that led to the biggest paychecks during the first three years of an employee's career. → Read More
Highly-productive workers are better at planning their work based on their top priorities, developing techniques for managing a high volume of information, and understand the needs of their colleagues, according to an analysis conducted by Robert C. Pozen, a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. → Read More
Research published in the Journal of Human Resources found that firstborn children outperform their younger siblings on cognitive tests starting from infancy because they are better set up for academic and intellectual success thanks to the type of parenting they experience. → Read More