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Gyanda Sachdeva, LinkedIn’s VP of product management, spoke with Gizmodo for the latest installment of our “AI Unlocked” video series.Watch the interview above and check out the transcript below. The transcript of this conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.Thomas Germain: Everybody’s worried about AI stealing their job, but now LinkedIn has a new suite of tools that are going to help you find work. And today we’re talking to LinkedIn’s VP of product management about what the future of AI in the job…

Image: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto (Getty Images)It’s not just you. LinkedIn is experiencing a widespread outage with users taking to other social media sites like X and Facebook to complain.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerIt’s not immediately clear what caused the LinkedIn outage, but Down Detector has tens of thousands of complaints that appear to have started around 3:40 p.m. ET. Netblocks reports LinkedIn is down in “multiple countries,” suggesting this is a global problem.The outage…

An Illinois police department have apologised for an offensive recruitment poster, inspired by Call Of Duty. In a now deleted post on social media, the Peoria police department shared a recruitment poster featuring three armed, white police officers with assault rifles. The accompanying text read: “Stop playing games and answer the Call Of Duty”, with the last three words written in the same font as Activision Blizzard’s blockbuster franchise. The poster was quickly criticised, with many pointing out that taking…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Can scientific methods be used to identify who is best suited for physically and mentally demanding missions? In his doctoral thesis, Peter Tedeholm explores the individual characteristics of Swedish operational police officers. Peter Tedeholm has worked for 20 years as a police officer in the National Task Force and…

Jan. 10, 2024 11:40 pm ETGoogle laid off hundreds of employees in several areas of the business on Wednesday, a sign of further cost reductions at the search giant as it continues to reverse a pandemic hiring spree.The cuts affected employees in divisions including those working on Google’s Assistant program, hardware and internal software tools, the company said. The exact size and scope of the layoffs couldn’t immediately be determined.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

Delta Air Lines plans to hire roughly half as many pilots next year as it did in 2023, the latest sign that a more than two-year-long pilot hiring spree is starting to slow.Major carriers have been hiring pilots at a record clip as they raced to catch up with the rapid rebound in travel demand that followed the Covid-19 pandemic. They hired over 13,000 pilots last year and are on track to bring on nearly as many this year, according to FAPA.aero, a pilot career advisory firm.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc.…

Silicon Valley and other tech hubs are losing the tech talent war.Metro areas that consistently attracted huge numbers of tech workers have hit a turning point, according to fresh data from labor-market analytics firm Lightcast, crunched by D.C. think tank Brookings. The share of the nation’s tech workers who work in places such as Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and the greater Washington, D.C. area is actually shrinking. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

Last week, I posed this challenge: You and nine of your coworkers are sitting in a conference room when somebody wonders aloud about the group’s average salary. Everyone is curious, but nobody feels comfortable sharing their own pay with the group. How can you all learn your average salary without anybody learning any more information about another person’s salary (other than what can be deduced from the group average)? You all have pen and paper and can conceal what you write from others, but you have no other tools at…

America’s tiniest employers have the highest share of job openings on record—more than one in five available positions—a sign the labor market might be tilting toward the little guy.Solid demand for workers from small establishments, such as mom-and-pop businesses and many franchise locations, stands in contrast to a cooling labor market more broadly. It could give smaller businesses a chance to catch up on hiring with less competition from larger companies on pay and benefits, and offer refuge for job seekers as the…

Listen to article(2 minutes)Looking to get promoted quickly or avoid being underpaid? Then find companies where managers rise through the ranks, where promotions come with bigger pay bumps, or where employees stick around and build careers.That information has been hard for employees to find. A new ranking of Fortune 500 companies seeks to help job-hunters avoid dead-end jobs. The 2023 American Opportunity Index rates companies by how well they help employees, especially those without college degrees, move into better,…