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It can be challenging to keep up with all of the slang your Gen Z coworkers use.Employees who are part of Generation Z — those born between 1997 and 2012 — are introducing coworkers to a variety of new phrases in the workplace.The new generation of workers is bringing their personalities into the office, and thus, their jargon. “We now take our work home readily and easily, basically in our pockets with our phones,” Carrie Bulger, an industrial-organizational psychologist at Quinnipiac University, told Business Insider’s Emily Stewart in June. “The lines are blurred no matter what. Why wouldn’t they blur…

It’s just not enough to cold apply for tech jobs anymore, said Aashna Doshi, a two-time intern turned software engineer at Google. To land a spot at a tech giant, you need to be networking “intentionally.””Knowing who you want to meet, finding that common bridge between both of you, and then really learning from their experience, was a big game changer for me,” Doshi told Business Insider.Doshi suggests reaching out not only to people whose career paths you’d like to emulate, but also those with whom you share common ground, including similar personal experiences.”I was talking to a bunch of…

I’m from America, but I couldn’t achieve the American dream if I stayed in the States.I graduated from college on the heels of 2008’s Great Recession. It seemed like nobody was hiring. I built a career writing for travel magazines and news outlets to keep up with student loan payments that started at around $900 a month.When COVID hit, I lost clients, and my financial situation became dire. Loans and rent gobbled up nearly $2,000 a month before car payments. I moved in with my sister and then tried living in a dirt-cheap trailer, but I couldn’t make up for…

What do you say in a cold outreach message? Should your work history be lifted verbatim from your résumé? Do you use first- or third-person in describing yourself?Anyone who’s ever tinkered with their LinkedIn profile has probably found themselves asking questions like these.BI asked LinkedIn experts for their tips on optimizing your LinkedIn profile and building your professional brand on the site. The next time you need to brush up on your profile (hint: you’re probably not doing it enough), here are their do’s and don’ts for using the networking site.Optimizing your profileLinkedIn gives you the option to default to…

My iPhone threatens to ruin my reputation, career, marriage, friendships, or entire life. Several times a week. Sometimes, I look down to discover it’s been — unbeknownst to me — recording an audio message.With one wrong move, I could accidentally send that accidental audio message to, well, anyone.What might have been in those few minutes of surreptitiously recorded audio? Most likely, just ambient white noise coming from inside my purse or pocket. But it could be terrible! Maybe I was singing along (badly) to the radio. Maybe I was loudly discussing some scandalous social gossip or confidential work information. Maybe…

Tesla’s robotaxis are finally on the road — and on camera.The lucky few who got to ride Tesla robotaxis after last month’s launch posted videos of their rides online, and it didn’t take long for viewers to identify possible errors by the driverless vehicles. Business Insider asked autonomous driving experts to review those videos and share their thoughts on what they saw, and what might need to be changed before Tesla scales up its long-awaited product.Tesla’s robotaxis launched on Sunday, June 22, in a limited area in Austin. Its “early access rides” were only available to a group of Tesla…

If one slogan defined Zohran Mamdani’s successful campaign to be New York City’s Democratic nominee for mayor, it might be his call to freeze the rent.The pledge — plastered across T-shirts, tote bags, and campaign mailers across the city — has drawn some of the most energetic support and opposition to Mamdani’s campaign.It’s not unusual for a New York City mayor to support temporarily pausing rent increases on the city’s nearly one million rent-stabilized units, which make up about half of all rental apartments and house more than 2 million people. But Mamdani has gone a step further, promising to…

Julie Wilburn, 53, never anticipated that, over a decade after moving from Maryland to Morocco, she would be running her own school.That’s now her reality.”I started with four kids out of my own house, and then I just started building a little school, and now it’s been 13 years and I have this school that now has 60 to 65 students,” Wilburn told Business Insider.Wilburn said she worked at small religious schools in Maryland, and when she met her husband, who is from Morocco, she decided she wanted a change.They moved to Morocco, and Wilburn found a teaching job. When…

New York CNN  —  When the first Olive Garden opened in 1982 in Orlando, Florida, it was a disaster. Long lines formed to get inside. The cooks couldn’t make enough sauce to keep up with demand. Bells constantly rang, alerting the kitchen staff that a table was waiting more than 10 minutes for their meal. The second day wasn’t any better. It was immediately clear to Blaine Sweatt, an Olive Garden cofounder and general manager, that he needed a quick and cost-efficient way to satisfy hordes of hungry customers as they waited for their entrées. Enter an endless supply of…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Brussels says it will build up emergency stockpiles of critical minerals and cable repair kits as concerns mount over the EU’s vulnerability to attack.“The EU faces an increasingly complex and deteriorating risk landscape marked by rising geopolitical tensions, including conflict, the mounting impacts of climate change, environmental degradation, and hybrid and cyber threats,’’ the European Commission said in a draft document setting out a stockpiling strategy, seen by the Financial Times. Member states should co-ordinate backup supplies of food, medicines and even…