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Just four months after France’s Prime Minister announced a new EV subsidy program to incentivize drivers to go all-electric, the government is putting a halt to the savings, at least for the rest of the year. On October 22, 2023 French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron announced a new “social leasing” program for French residents with the goal of providing payments of €100 ($109) per month for low-income drivers with down payments  subsidized by the local government.  Automakers took Macron’s…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As more states require employers to list compensation on job ads, a trending strategy to use very wide pay ranges could potentially harm recruitment, according to a Washington State University study. The study, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, found that participants in three different experiments were…

Nilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with USDS head Mina Hsiang, who previously worked for HealthCare.gov, on having more job applicants this year than in any prior year, AI, and more — Ten years after healthcare.gov, the fed's tech consultancy wants you to help with the next big thing. Nilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with USDS head Mina Hsiang, who previously worked for HealthCare.gov, on having more job applicants this year than in any prior year, AI, and more — Ten…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Financial technology (FinTech)—innovation in the delivery of financial services and products—has grown in popularity, expanding access to finance for millions of people. But while promoting inclusive finance to accelerate economic growth and financial sustainability is considered a good idea, there are challenges to balancing the socioeconomic tradeoffs. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Employment is believed to reduce the likelihood of criminal recidivism, but a criminal record is a significant barrier to employment. People with a criminal record are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed, or to have a job that does not match their skills or interests. In a new study, researchers asked business managers to make hypothetical hiring decisions about males with a criminal…

When casting veteran Jodi Wincheski met Lindsay Carmine in 2020, she knew she had a reality star on her hands.A pediatric nurse from Pennsylvania, Ms. Carmine was magnetic and strategic, making her a fit to compete on “Survivor”—“the toughest reality show to land,” according to Ms. Wincheski. But years of submitting audition tapes failed to get her past the initial interview stage. She hired Ms. Wincheski to help her change that. For $350, Ms. Wincheski worked with Ms. Carmine to highlight the most interesting parts of…

Amazon’s AI technology is now all set to start hiring and screening job applicants Last week, Amazon extended buyout offers to hundreds of its recruiters as part of what is expected to be a months-long cycle of layoffs that has left corporate employees across the company angered and on edge. Now, Recode has viewed a confidential internal document that raises the question of whether a new artificial intelligence technology that the company began experimenting with last year will one day replace some of these employees.…

Many children grow up gazing up at the night sky, dreaming of becoming astronauts who boldly go to the Moon – and beyond.But in order to get that elusive job, would-be astronauts must make it through a competitive selection process. For NASA's 2021 class of astronauts, the space agency said it chose just 10 candidates from more than 12,000 applicants.Basic requirements, according to NASA, include US citizenship and a master's degree in a STEM field, like engineering, biological science, or computer science. Astronauts…

As companies publish pay details for job openings under new laws in New York City, some are listing maximum pay figures that are more than double the minimum pay for the job, stretching salary ranges to hundreds of thousands of dollars for certain careers.A trauma surgeon in the Mount Sinai Health System could earn anywhere from $384,000 to $800,000 or more, the hospital’s job ads say. A tax executive at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP could make $158,400—or nearly triple that. At AT&T Inc.,…