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Steve Jobs had a ‘beer test’ he used for interviews at Apple—if he didn’t want to drink with you, you didn’t get the job

Steve Jobs’ hiring test at Apple had nothing to do with your résumé. He wanted to know if he’d actually grab a beer with you.

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Red flag test: former CEO explains why he rejects job candidates who say they can start right away

“They don’t get the job, because they’ll treat us the way they treat that former employer,” Gary Shapiro of the CTA says

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Mark Zuckerberg once gave a Facebook engineer startup advice at 2 a.m. while ‘hanging out with all the interns’—she quit and raised millions after

Mark Zuckerberg told his former Facebook engineer Sophie Novati: "Figure out a way to capture people's valuable attention."

06.05.2026 4

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Gen Z workers say showing up 10 minutes late to work is as good as on time—but baby boomer bosses have zero tolerance for tardiness, research reveals

No wonder bosses say Gen Z are hard to manage: While 70% of baby boomers have zero tolerance for any level of tardiness, in Gen Z’s eyes, 10 minutes...

05.05.2026 7

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He started as a part-time Starbucks barista at 17. Now he’s an exec designing the menu

Sam Henderson's advice to Gen Z? Don't ignore opportunities in hospitality.

03.05.2026 5

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Zoom is giving away $150K to ‘solopreneurs’ with no strings attached—as 33 million workers ditch corporate to become their own boss

As AI kills the American dream of a stable job and a corner office, 33 million people are going solo—and Zoom is throwing $150,000 behind the...

03.05.2026 30

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Suze Orman once said earning more than $800,000 would make her ‘sick to my stomach’—but that turning down Oprah Winfrey cured her self-doubt

Finance icon Suze Orman turned down a million-dollar book deal and refused to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show—and says both decisions changed her...

02.05.2026 10

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Self-made multimillionaire Emma Grede says she was ‘using AI like a 42-year-old woman’—until Mark Cuban gave her a wake-up call

EXCLUSIVE: Self-made multimillionaire Emma Grede—cofounder of Skims and Obama Foundation board member—is known for building billion-dollar brands....

28.04.2026 10

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Meet the founder who started over at 50 and worked 20-hour days to build a multimillion dollar cookie dough empire—and still won’t take a day off

Doughlicious founder quit corporate America, got breast cancer, and built a multimillion-dollar empire—but she still works through vacations.

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Craving work-life balance is a huge red flag, says Fortune 500 CEO—and like Barack Obama, he happily works through the weekends

Bupa's CEO says if you're obsessing over work-life balance, your problem isn't the hours—it's the job. Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang and Barack Obama...

22.04.2026 20

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Jeff Bezos once gave Eva Longoria and the admiral behind Osama bin Laden’s capture $100 million—but she says you don’t need wealth to give back

Jeff Bezos gave Eva Longoria $50 million for philanthropy. Two years on, she says the biggest myth is that you need to be rich to give back.

21.04.2026 20

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Teen boys are dating their AI chatbots—and experts warn opting out of real relationships could hurt their careers in the future

The appeal of an AI girlfriend, one professor says, is obvious: "maximum control, zero rejection." But it’s a shift that could kill their careers.

17.04.2026 20

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Emma Grede says her $5 billion Skims empire started with a cold call to Kris Jenner: ‘The difference between me and someone else is I made it happen’

Emma Grede runs multiple businesses with the Kardashians. In an exclusive interview with Fortune, she reveals that empire can all be traced back to...

16.04.2026 10

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German workers take more than a day off work sick, every single month—so now the government is stepping in and proposing to cut their pay for it

Germany already told its workers to ditch four-day weeks and work-life balance—now the government wants to cut their pay for calling in sick too

16.04.2026 20

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He was coding at 12 and became one of Google’s youngest ever CMOs—but now says Gen Z are better off ice skating than learning to code

Like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Alon Chen coded his way to Google CMO and a seven-figure exit. Now he says AI has made the skill 'obsolete' for...

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$12 billion crypto company boss says Gen Z ‘create an absurd amount of chaos’ and make him want to pull his hair out—but he’s betting on them anyway

While other leaders complain about their Gen Z new hires, Paradigm CEO Matt Huang is promoting them into the C-suite. His first hire was a...

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Born in Soviet Union, Grindr CEO was told he had two career options: Learn English or how to shoot a gun

Grindr CEO George Arison used the only public fax machine in town to smuggle his application across the border to America and escape the Soviet Union.

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Eva Longoria says she refused to be a ‘struggling actor’—so she worked part time as a headhunter, closing deals from her soap opera dressing room

Before an $80 million fortune and Desperate Housewives fame, Eva Longoria was secretly working as a headhunter from her soap opera dressing room for...

10.04.2026 10

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Jeff Bezos gave $100 million to actress Eva Longoria and the retired admiral who oversaw the capture of Osama bin Laden to use as they see fit

The world’s second-richest person launched the Courage and Civility Award in 2021 to support philanthropists—and Eva Longoria and retired Navy...

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75% of Gen Z equate desk jobs with burnout and instability—and 1 in 4 are picking up a toolbelt instead

Gen Z was sold the dream of white-collar work. Now 75% associate it with instability—they're ditching desk jobs for drains and electrical cables.

09.04.2026 10

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While other CEOs freeze entry-level roles, this AI founder is hiring Gen Z with zero experience

38% of bosses plan to hire fewer grads this year. This ex-Google exec is doing the opposite—hiring Gen Z with zero experience or degree required

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Gen Z are already more bullish than millennials about early retirement—and many think they can quit work for good with just $500,000

A chunk of Gen Zers anticipate working for just two decades before kicking up their feet and living off just $500,000 for the following 60 years.

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Cyprus and Ireland top list of best places to retire—as boomers are forced to ‘unretire’, the only real solution is to move abroad

The U.S. once promised opportunity—and the U.K. stability—but now Malta, Malaysia, Uruguay and Turkey outperform them in retirement ranks.

03.04.2026 20

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Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing

Research says workers can get as much done in a 33-hour week as in 38 hours. Essentially, those of us on a five-day week are filling up our days with...

02.04.2026 9

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Covid gave us hybrid work. The Iran War might give us a four-day week—and this time, experts say it could stick

As governments from Australia to Europe scramble to save fuel amid the Iran War, experts say we've never been closer to a permanent four-day week.

01.04.2026 10

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As AI reshapes the office, Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For are doubling down on the most human perks

Unlimited IVF, 20-plus weeks of paid parental leave, and crisis concierges: Fortune's 2026 list shows top employers leaning into analog benefits as...

01.04.2026 20

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Meet the ex-Google CMO who quit with a seven-figure package by 28—he says getting promoted was easy because he just ‘disregarded all the rules’

By 28, Alon Chen had a seven‑figure equity package and a CMO title at Google. He says promotions were “easy” once he ignored every rule—and...

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As Gen Z regret ‘worthless’ degrees, this CEO sent her kid to college in London—and she’s saving over $50K-a-year. ‘It’s half the price’

U.S. student debt is $1.7 trillion and rising. One CEO found a cheaper, shorter, better alternative: British universities. ‘It's half the price!’

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The scientist who helped create AI says it’s only ‘a matter of time’ before every single job is wiped out—even safer trade jobs like plumbing

Yoshua Bengio helped create the technology that is now coming for your job—and he thinks anyone who works on a laptop or computer is already under...

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Research shows workers are using AI to get away from their computers—sneaking gym classes, skipping meetings, and clawing back 30 minutes a day

Your colleagues are saving so much time by using AI that they’re running errands and exercising in the middle of the workday.

25.03.2026 10

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Say hello to 10 a.m. starts. Mark Cuban says AI will cut your workday by an hour—and you’ll still get paid the same

Imagine clocking off an hour earlier every single day and still taking home the same salary. Billionaire Mark Cuban says it's coming, thanks to AI.

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Covid gave us hybrid work. The Iran War might give us a four-day week—and this time, experts say it could stick

As governments across Asia slash the working week to save energy amid the Iran War, workers have never been closer to a permanent four-day week—but...

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The graduate who racked up the biggest student loan in UK history owes more than $420,000—even pricier than the average British home

As Gen Z and millennials watch their “worthless” degrees lose value thanks to AI, one student has wrapped up more than $420,000 in student debt.

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Less than 10 out of 250 billionaires have kept their promise to give away their fortune—and a philanthropy CEO says Elon Musk is right about why

Exclusive: The CEO who gives away billions for a living says Elon Musk is right: philanthropy is very hard—but stop waiting on billionaires to do it.

19.03.2026 20

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Sri Lanka just launched a four-day work week and declared Wednesdays a holiday—and the Iran War is why

Sri Lanka is giving workers Wednesdays off to save fuel amid Iran war—and other Asian countries are quietly turning to four‑day weeks and WFH too.

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Burned-out workers sick of toxic bosses are using medical leave as a sneaky extended vacation to job hunt—and it’s not actually illegal

TikTok's latest career advice for burned-out workers: take 12 weeks of medical leave, get paid, and come back with a new job offer

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Being the office overachiever is backfiring—workers are burning out so hard they’re calling it a ‘competence hangover’

The dark side of being the office all-star: overachievers are burning out so hard it’s being called a ‘competence hangover.’ And it’s entirely...

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1 in 5 Gen Z job seekers are bringing mom or dad to interviews—and some are even letting them negotiate their salary with the boss

Facing a brutal job market, some Gen Z candidates are bringing mom or dad to job interviews—or even letting them negotiate their pay. Employers say...

12.03.2026 30

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Meet the millennial who turned a $400 side hustle into TikTok Shop’s biggest teeth whitening brand in the UK—now he splashes $335 a month on haircuts

Whites Beaconsfield's founder built a mutlimillion-dollar brand with just $13 Facebook ads. He lost $20,000 on crypto and still lives at home with his...

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Asana’s new CEO says getting a job in Silicon Valley isn’t harder for Gen Z than it was for him—he shares his own ‘donut box’ hack for getting hired

Exclusive: Gen Z is resorting to donut-box résumés, cold emails, and viral stunts to break into tech—but Dan Rogers, the new CEO of the $1.8...

08.03.2026 30

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Gen Z women are the new face of unemployment—and it’s not because they’re too choosy. Low grades and bad health are to blame, new research warns

Young women are falling out of the workforce, even as male unemployment figures fall. The NEET crisis has a new face—and she's a young woman.

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JPMorgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon reveals the career goal he adopted when he was just a 28-year-old assistant: Do not speak unless you can add value

Before Jamie Dimon was the billionaire boss of JPMorgan, he set himself a surprisingly modest rule: don’t talk—it propelled him to a CFO role by 30

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While Western CEOs crack down, demanding super-AI productivity to keep your job. Japanese firms pay older workers to do nothing

About half of Japanese firms have an "old guy who does nothing." Colleagues say they take many breaks, idly chat, browse the web and stare off into...

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At 22, Eileen Gu is already an Olympic multimillionaire success story. She credits it to a brain-training ritual anyone can adopt

At 22, Eileen Gu is already an Olympic millionaire. She says she uses neuroplasticity to “literally become exactly who I want to be”—and Arianna...

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Forget job titles when you’re in your 20s—that was the best career advice Barack Obama gave his ex-speechwriter

Instead of focusing on your dream title, former U.S. president Barack Obama urges young people to think about the impact they want to have through...

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says sucking up to your boss won’t earn their trust

Want to earn the trust of your boss and peers? Sucking up to them won’t do the trick, says Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy.

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Olympic runner, Mo Farah has a message for struggling Gen Z: ‘I was a child trafficked, but I never gave up on myself’

From human trafficking survivor to Olympic champion, Mo Farah has a message for Gen Z: life will knock you down, but your success is your...

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A millennial manager took her job hunt to Tinder and landed 3 interviews—she says getting a job on the dating app was easier than finding love

On top of tapping the usual suspects like LinkedIn and Indeed, Samantha Rogers logged onto her Tinder profile and added the words “seeking work...

22.02.2026 30

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At 61, this major insurance CEO works out 6 days a week with his 23-year-old son—he picks his brain for a Gen Z perspective while lifting weights

As CEO of a $23 billion-a-year Fortune 500 company, Bupa’s boss Iñaki Ereño must be on his A-game. For the 61-year-old that means working out...

22.02.2026 20

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This math graduate applied to over 1,000 jobs and still didn’t hear back—so he moved to Austria

Gen Z and millennial workers in Britain are so fed up with being ghosted by employers that some are giving up on the country altogether.

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