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How to know when it's time to go -- Bitfield Consulting
 Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the next step in your career.
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Editor's Note: Companies will sometimes ask you to take part in an "exit interview", usually presented as an information-gathering exercise where you can give honest feedback about your employment, and why you're leaving. Sometimes they'll ask for suggestions that could help improve things for the employees who are staying. Sounds innocent enough, right? It's a trap
WorkMan Is Arrested in Connection With Little Mountain Fire Tens of thousands of residents remain under mandatory evacuation orders. As of Thursday morning, the Palisades fire near Malibu and the Pacific Palisades neighborhood was only 21 percent contained. The Eaton fire, burning near Pasadena, was 55 percent contained. Work
WorkWorkMap shows seven states expecting heavy snow ahead of Arctic blast Millions are bracing for subzero wind chills this weekend as the coldest air of the season hits most of the country. The Arctic blast will bring snow squalls to several states, and seven other states are expecting heavy snow ahead of the plunging temperatures.
WorkWorkWhat 2025 Holds for the World When I talked to Borge Brende recently about what 2025 has in store for us, he started by looking not forward but backward. Seeking to understand our new horizonsthe theme of this issuethe World Economic Forum president compared this year to 1918, 1945, and 1989. We are, in his view, living at a moment of seismic change. There is a new order on its way, he said, but we dont know exactly where it is. Following a year of global elections, marked by rising populism and fury at the establishment, we enter into 2025 alert to new challenges and opportunities ahead, and aware that they can come swiftly.
WorkHow the AfD got its swagger back - The Economist (No paywall) IT IS A bitingly cold evening in Bautzen, a handsome town nestled in the hills of the Oberlausitz, deep in the east German state of Saxony. But spirits are high at the election stand of the hard-right Alternative for Germany (afd). Our land first, because we love Germany! proclaim banners in the partys trademark bright blue. The mood inside the party is really good, beams Frank Peschel, who sits in Saxonys parliament. The afd took 39% of the vote here at last years European election, and your correspondent struggles to find any local not planning to vote for it at the national election on February 23rd. The left calls us Nazis, but we just want a normal life, says Simon, a 20-year-old. He will deliver his first vote to the party next month. Work
WorkWorkHow to Write a Job Description That Actually Gets People to Apply - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) On the spectrum of managerial chores, writing a job description probably falls somewhere between conducting employee performance reviews and filing expense reports high on tedium, low on immediate gratification. But experts advise shifting your perspective. Instead, see it as a chance to showcase how your organizations vision, brand, and values connect with what jobseekers care about most. To get the attention of potential candidates, follow these steps: 1) Reflect on the qualities, knowledge, experience, and skills that would make a candidate a good fit. 2) Highlight how the job connects to the organizations strategy. 3) Showcase opportunities for growth. 4) Emphasize skills, not diplomas 5) Highlight autonomy. 6) Choose your words carefully. 7) Be transparent about rewards. 8) Dont be boring.
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WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkIs this the $200,000 ticket to cheating death? A German cryonics start-up is offering a chance at a second life for the cost of a sports car. Is cryogenics within reach, or still an empty promise? It is one of three retrofitted and operated by Tomorrow. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkFTC bans General Motors from selling driver data for five years "GM monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds," FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said. "With this action, the FTC is safeguarding Americans’ privacy and protecting people from unchecked surveillance." WorkGoogle decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law This is happening just after Meta announced it would be ending its fact-checking program in the US, so who knows if Mark Zuckerberg will comply with EU laws. X scaled back its professional fact checkers a while ago. Big tech certainly seems to have a big problem with, um, facts. Work'TikTok Refugees' are learning Mandarin Chinese on Duolingo for RedNote Meanwhile, RedNote's original Chinese users are getting language lessons from the app's American imports. They're now apparently getting schooled on gen Alpha American slang and TikTok trends, like "my shayla" and "Raw. Next question." Chinese users are also having fun with the new users, telling them that they're their "Chinese spy" and jokingly asking for their data to give to China's government. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkNetradyne snags 90M at 1.25B valuation to expand smart dashcams for commercial fleets | TechCrunch Rebecca Bellan covers transportation for TechCrunch. She’s interested in all things micromobility, EVs, AVs, smart cities, AI, sustainability and more. Previously, she covered social media for Forbes.com, and her work has appeared in Bloomberg CityLab, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones, i-D (Vice) and more.Rebecca studied journalism and history at Boston University. She has invested in Ethereum. WorkWorkWorkCancer burden is shifting from men to women and old to young The report relied on incidence data collected by central cancer registries through 2021 and mortality data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics through 2022. That means there’s an asterisk for the Covid-19 pandemic. The percentage of all deaths due to cancer increased from 17% in 2021 to 19% in 2022, but when Covid deaths are excluded, cancer accounted for 20% of deaths in both years. WorkWorkWorkWorkState Attorneys General Ask Courts to Preserve Biden-era Gun Control Measures Mr. Platkin’s office led a motion filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for North Dakota as well, this time to intervene on behalf of a group of undocumented immigrants. That case, which began as a lawsuit by 19 Republican states against the Biden administration, challenges a policy that allows some undocumented immigrants already legally authorized to stay in the United States to also receive subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. WorkBiden Tightens Cybersecurity Rules, Forcing Trump to Make a Choice Some will be reversed next week, making many of Mr. Biden’s steps nothing more than an exiting political gesture. But the new cybersecurity requirements add a wrinkle to that debate, potentially setting up a conflict between the Trump administration’s vow to deregulate and its pledge to defend against Chinese intrusions into American networks. WorkCancer's New Face: Younger and Female More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American Cancer Society reported on Thursday. WorkAmerican Express to pay 230 million over 'deceitful marketing campaign' “We cooperated extensively with these agencies and our regulators and took decisive voluntary action to address these issues, including discontinuing certain products several years ago, conducting a comprehensive internal review, taking appropriate disciplinary measures, making organizational changes, and enhancing policies, compliance, and training programs,” Amex said in a statement. WorkCash App parent fined up to 175 million for 'woefully incomplete' response to fraud The order is part of a sweeping effort by the CFPB to crack down on widespread fraud across payments networks. Last month, the CFPB sued JPMorgan Chase (JPM+0.77%), Wells Fargo (WFC-0.12%), and Bank of America (BAC-1.20%) over failures to stop fraud perpetrated through Zelle, the payments network owned by Early Warning Services, a company co-founded by the banks. |
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