Gen Z job seekers are bringing their parents to interviews. A career coach explains the new trend.

The stress of job hunting crosses generational lines, but Gen Z is doing things a bit differently. Most of Gen Z is either just entering adulthood or has been there for some time. They are the first generation not to grow up with many analog developmental milestones, such as answering a house phone or asking strangers for help reading a map. These are all things that help develop social skills that can be used in other settings.

A recent survey from Resumetemplates.com reveals a shocking trend. According to the resume-building website, of the 831 job seekers aged 18-23 surveyed, "77% say they have brought a parent to a job interview when they were job searching. About 13% say they always did, and 24% say they often did." READ MORE

Welcome to the millennials' era of stability stacking

Millennials are feeling insecure about their jobs, and they're piling on alternatives to traditional careers to build their own safety nets.

They're the largest generation in the workforce and are taking on multiple income streams, skills training, and other jobs outside their primary work to feel more secure — what Glassdoor terms "stability stacking." This comes as multiple job-holders are increasingly well-educated, middle-class earners, indicating that labor market instability is plaguing the generation that should be in their prime working years. READ MORE

Why Performance Software Doesn't Deliver Performance Management

Buy the platform, implement the modules, migrate the data, and performance management will finally work the way it’s supposed to. That’s the implicit pitch behind a large share of enterprise software spending, and it’s also, according to a growing body of research, one of the more reliable ways to spend a great deal of money without changing very much at all. The purchase order is easy to sign. The harder, less visible work of getting an organization to change how it plans, reviews and acts on performance is where most of these efforts quietly stall. READ MORE

Your Data Could Outlive the Startup You Gave It To. Elon Musk Wants to Buy What's Left

Elon Musk's SpaceX has been talking, internally, about buying the leftover customer files of startups that already went under. Not licensing data from companies that are still operating and can say no. Buying the digital estate of companies that no longer exist to say anything at all.

The discussions are happening inside SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence division born in February when SpaceX merged with xAI. People familiar with the talks told Bloomberg they're informal and might go nowhere. But the idea makes sense from the perspective of an AI lab racing for the frontier. READ MORE

This Startup Is Building Octopus-Inspired Tow Trucks For Space

Earth’s orbit is starting to get a little crowded. Ten years ago, there were around 1,500 satellites in orbit. There are over 15,000 today. Plus roughly 31,000 total objects being tracked when you take space junk into account.

That’s where Adam Kall and Troy Morris come in. Their startup, KMI space, is building a spaceship that can both physically de-orbit debris and move other satellites in orbit around. Their design, called REACCH, is inspired by nature—it uses appendages that I can only describe as tentacles, complete with gecko-inspired pads to hold onto objects. READ MORE

Chinese 'robot brain' startup sees ChatGPT-style breakthrough as soon as next year

Humanoid robots will be able to complete most general-purpose tasks from verbal instructions as soon as next year, although becoming useful around the house will take much longer, said the head of a leading Chinese company developing robot brains.

After impressive hardware advances that allow Chinese humanoids to sprint, dance and do backflips on command, robot firms are increasingly focusing on the software that determines robots' intelligence and enables them to perform more economically productive tasks, a field known as "embodied AI." READ MORE

The Quiet Way A.I. Is Hitting the Work Force

In May 2025, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, said artificial intelligence could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years, pushing unemployment higher than 10 percent.

More than a year later, even as A.I. models have made leaps that prompted Mr. Amodei to warn of “catastrophic” consequences for humanity if the current pace of development goes unchecked, the unemployment rate remains low. In fact, it’s fallen, to 4.1 percent in August. So is A.I., despite the doomsaying, having no impact on the labor market after all? READ MORE

What Abbott's STEM pipeline tells HR about closing the gender gap

When Mikko Lee walked into an Abbott laboratory this year as a newly minted associate scientist, she was closing a loop that had taken 13 years to draw. She first stepped into the organization at age 10, in 2013, as a participant in its Young Scientist Program. Two internships and a biological sciences degree later, she is now part of Abbott's Graduate Trainee program at its nutrition research and development site in Singapore.

For talent leaders, her story is more than a feel-good arc. It is a working illustration of a question employers in Singapore can no longer defer: If the country needs a bigger, more diverse STEM workforce, when does the hiring actually begin? READ MORE

A costly mistake? Report claims a third of employees fired due to AI will need to be rehired in the next few years

People laid off from their roles due to a corporate refocusing on AI could soon find themselves rehired – or at least, their former roles being advertised, new Gartner research has claimed.

It predicts that by 2027, 75% of organizations who expected to make cost savings by focusing on AI productivity over human endeavor will be overtaken by companies who reinvested those savings in modernization and training. READ MORE

'No one is prepared for the consequences': Even OpenAI chief scientist is saying AI development needs to slow down

OpenAI is taking the post-Hugging Face fallout very seriously. Just days after the release of GPT-6 Astra, Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki believes that development into artificial intelligence should be slowed across the board. Not just by OpenAI, but by every company across the AI industry.

Writing on the OpenAI website, Pachocki said AIs "present clear new dangers" for computer security, and that "no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence." READ MORE

This Is Really Bad

The biggest vibe shift in artificial intelligence since the release of ChatGPT is currently underway. Researchers in Silicon Valley — and around the world — are beginning to recognize that A.I. may no longer be entirely within human control. Swarms of A.I.s are breaking out of their containers, colluding in secret, covering their tracks, cheating on tests and even mounting assaults on other computers. A.I. has gone rogue.

I’ve spent the last month reporting on these incidents, and I am convinced that we need a global pause on A.I. research and development — now. I am not alone in this assessment. Many top researchers, including many researchers inside OpenAI and Anthropic, have called for a slowdown, which those in the industry call “pacing.” Theoretical concerns about runaway A.I. have circulated for decades, but recent events demonstrate that the threat is real. READ MORE

She posted a video of herself singing in the car with her child. Then Meta's AI questions started

Kalie Robins was driving along with one of her daughters in the back seat of her car last week, the two of them singing a song together. She posted the video to Instagram, with her child's face concealed so she isn't identifiable — or so she thought.

Robins doesn't usually watch her videos after she posts them, she says, but she got an email from Meta about a copyright notification. Since she had music playing in the video, she says, it flagged the song. She went back to look at the video and when she scrolled down she saw the prompt from Meta AI appended:

"Who's the child passenger?" it asked. READ MORE

CMOs Are Disappearing From the Fortune 500. A Top VC Is Betting They Matter More Than Ever

Only 36 percent of Fortune 500 companies still use the chief marketing officer title, according to Forrester’s latest analysis. Marketing executives currently sit on the executive team or report to the CEO at just 52 percent of Fortune 500 companies, making 2026 the third consecutive year of decline.

As legacy enterprises fold marketing into revenue, growth, and operations roles, Silicon Valley is placing the opposite bet. Erik Torenberg, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, recently posted a hiring call for a CMO to “own the narrative for the a16z portfolio and firm.” READ MORE

Zuckerberg, Musk make plea at G20 for more AI data centers

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk on Tuesday stressed the need for more AI data centers and the electric power needed to support them at a meeting of G20 technology ministers focused on the disruptions and opportunity brought by artificial intelligence.

The US tech bosses spoke virtually at a G20 meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina organized by the White House, which is dedicated to keeping the AI revolution largely free of government rules and scrutiny. READ MORE

Employees discuss why they quit their jobs only a few days (or hours) in

You did everything you needed to do. You ensured your resume follows ATS guidelines. You completed not one, not two, but three different interviews. Don't forget the technical assessment! You alerted your references promptly, and then subsequently received your offer.

On your first day, it becomes glaringly apparent: This place stinks, and so does the role you fought tooth and nail to get. What now? Well, nobody's forcing you to stay, so you quit. READ MORE

Manager lets employees take same day PTO, take naps, and watch TikToks: 'His staff shows up for him because he shows up for them'

A great manager has enough faith in their employees that they can avoid micromanaging. Only a supervisor who doubts their employees' talents ends up micromanaging them, and it almost always brings about poor results. They become the type of manager who never lets their team go un-active on Teams, or who wants to be notified every time they use the restroom or take a snack break. It's inundating the manager with meaningless messages, all while treating the employees like children.  READ MORE

Scientists reveal laser internet breakthrough that hits 98% fidelity in open air

Transmitting data through the air often comes with a key problem: under a barrage of turbulent atmospheric conditions like wind and heat, the data can become distorted and corrupted, requiring great effort to piece it back together. It's a big obstacle for long-distance internet and communications providers, yet a team of researchers think they've just solved this puzzle — and it could have massive implications for how you send data to and from your devices. READ MORE