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AI is gutting the next generation of talent: In tech, job openings for new grads have already been halved

AI is gutting the next generation of talent: In tech, job openings for new grads have already been halved

Kenneth Kang, a computer science graduate, spent his first year out of college applying for more than 2,500 jobs. He got 10 interviews. “It was very devastating,” he told Fortune. “Honestly, I thought that having a 3.98 GPA, getting recognition letters, and having an interesting experience in the past, perhaps I could get a full-time job offer easily. But that …

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How Gen Z Became the People-Pleasing Generation

How Gen Z Became the People-Pleasing Generation

Meg Josephson grew up as a people-pleaser. Raised in a home she describes as volatile, she remembers monitoring her father’s reactions, desperately trying to smooth tensions over. “Being a perfectionist and being kind of always on was very protective for me,” Josephson told Business Insider. “It was the one thing in my control to kind of keep my dad’s moods …

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Gen X Isn’t the Forgotten Generation, It’s the Meh Generation

Gen X Isn’t the Forgotten Generation, It’s the Meh Generation

You know “main character syndrome?” The phenomenon/meme that posits that certain people go about life like they’re the stars of their own private TV show? Gen X, broadly speaking, is suffering from a perpetual case of whatever the opposite of that is. They’re the cool kids in the back of the classroom who act so chill that the teacher, the …

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Menopause retreat helps new generation of women find relief and cope with stigmas: “We’re suffering silently and that’s not OK”

Menopause retreat helps new generation of women find relief and cope with stigmas: “We’re suffering silently and that’s not OK”

Monica Conn, 53, describes menopause as “hot flashes, anxiety, night sweats, irritability.” Instead of continuing to suffer silently through the brutal hormonal transition that 47 million women experience annually around the world, Conn has decided to do—and say—something about it.  “I want to take away an attitude that I’m looking forward to my next chapter and not that something has …

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Jamie Lee Curtis has thoughts about the harm done to ‘a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex’

Jamie Lee Curtis has thoughts about the harm done to ‘a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex’

CNN  —  Jamie Lee Curtis understands that using the word “genocide” to describe plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures might not go over well for some, but she’s not backing down. “I’ve been very vocal about the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex,” the actress told The Guardian in a recently published interview. “I’ve used that …

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Jamie Lee Curtis slams plastic surgery for causing ‘the genocide of a generation of women’

Jamie Lee Curtis slams plastic surgery for causing ‘the genocide of a generation of women’

Jamie Lee Curtis is speaking out against the rising popularity of plastic surgery by comparing the industry’s impact to genocide. The 66-year-old brought out a set of huge red plastic lips for a new interview and photoshoot with The Guardian, telling the outlet that it was meant as a “statement against plastic surgery.” “I’ve been very vocal about the genocide …

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Employers, beware: Gen Z is the ‘pragmatic generation’ redefining success, seeing money as just a means to an end, landmark survey says

Employers, beware: Gen Z is the ‘pragmatic generation’ redefining success, seeing money as just a means to an end, landmark survey says

A seismic generational shift is underway, and its epicenter is Generation Z. Born from 1997 onward, Gen Z is coming of age in a world where traditional milestones like landing a lifelong job, buying a house in your 20s, or chasing wealth for its own sake have become difficult, or borderline impossible, in the modern economy. Gen Z has responded …

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