Recruitment

A LinkedIn Marketing Agency Acquired an AI That Writes Mega-Cringe LinkedIn Posts

The LinkedIn Viral Post Generator writes posts of varying cringe levels based on your day and a random bit of inspirational advice.

A Pay Transparency Reckoning Is Coming for Big Tech

States and cities nationwide are beginning to mandate pay ranges in job postings—the change benefits workers but could shake tech companies.

LinkedIn Fined $1.8 Million for Paying Women Less than Men

The agreement allows the company to admit no guilt in shorting female pay, even as, like many tech companies, a majority of its employees are male.

The Courts Make It Clear: Scraping Websites Is Still Legal

The latest ruling in a high-profile case brought by LinkedIn case reaffirms that "hacking" and "scraping" aren't the same thing.

Desperate for Workers, MGM Resorts Is Trying a New Hiring Tactic: VR

The resort operator will use VR headsets to show applicants what the job entails, including "difficult guest interactions."

RIP LinkedIn Stories, 2020-2021

The internet's weirdest social network is pivoting to "lasting videos that tell your professional story in a more personal way."

AI Job Interview Software Can’t Even Tell If You’re Speaking English, Tests Find

The MIT Technology Review found two AI hiring tools gave good marks to an applicant who read a German-language Wikipedia page instead of answering questions.

Leak of a Reported 500 Million Profiles Actually Very Boring, LinkedIn Assures Users

Less than a week after personal information from a half-billion scraped Facebook profiles were leaked to the digital underworld, the world’s largest professional network seems to have suffered a similar fate. It would appear that, like Facebook, approximately 500 million scraped LinkedIn profiles are now being sold on the dark web to the highest bidder.…

LinkedIn Also Has a Clubhouse Rival in the Works Now

The latest platform dipping its toes into the tepid waters of the “social audio experience” is LinkedIn, which confirmed on Tuesday that it’s developing an audio networking integration for its app that will rival the existing voice-only chat app Clubhouse. Clubhouse itself has inspired a host of copycats since its initial rollout in March 2020,…

LinkedIn Adds Stories-Like Cover Letter Videos to Profiles to Help You Impress Potential Employers

Many of LinkedIn’s newest features makes it feel less like a job-seeking platform and even more like Instagram. But that seems to be what it’s going for. The company today announced that LinkedIn profiles will now include an optional field at the top next to a user’s name to specify their preferred pronouns. Additionally, the…

Microsoft Recruiting Is Like Getting A “Love Bomb” Dropped On You

When Microsoft wants to you hire you, it drops a “love bomb” on you, according to a person we spoke with who Microsoft wooed. Microsoft wanted our source— let’s call him Tony — to join its entertainment and devices division. Tony ultimately turned Microsoft down, opting to start his own consultancy. But he says if…

Army Reimagines Recruitment Center as an Apple Store-Inspired, Interactive Battle Simulator

With recruitment levels sagging, the U.S. Army is going the hyper-interactive route with an experimental new store that’s right out of the Apple playbook. That is, if Apple Genius Bar employees greeted customers with Apache attack helicopter simulators, full-scale Army vehicle mock-ups, and wrap-around 270-degree video screens, instead of those paperless receipt scanner things. “If…

Sexy Recruitment Posters For The Empire

Although most of the stormtroopers in the Star Wars movies turned out to be vat-grown clones of Boba Fett’s daddy, perhaps some of them were citizens from around the Empire doing their duty. These concept art recruitment posters by Feng Zhu might have been plastered in cantinas and spaceports around the galaxy in an effort…

Intel is looking for software engineers “for a revolutionary graphics product” to create “shock-and-awe launch demos.” [theinquirer]