SUCCESS
Bouncing Back From Career Failures
No one likes or wants to fail, but in order to succeed, failure is sometimes part of the process. For some people, it looks like winning comes easily. However, everyone is confronted with their own challenges, setbacks and failures.
Instead of feeling bad about yourself when things go awry, try to reframe your thoughts. Think of all the positive things you have learned along your career journey rather than ruminating on what didn’t work.
Carve out some time to evaluate what led to the failure. Identify any mistakes you made and analyze what you can improve upon in the future. Instead of dwelling on your setback, allow the feelings to fuel your energy to hyperfocus on the next, new and exciting opportunity.
Latest Developments In The Job Market, Tech, U.S. Stock Market And The Economy
The Job Market
Kellogg CEO Faces Backlash For Suggesting People Eat 'Cereal For Dinner' To Save Money
WK Kellogg CEO Gary Pilnick’s cost-saving suggestion of eating cereal for dinner has yet to win over consumers who are feeling the strain of grocery prices.
Social media users ripped into Pilnick for suggesting what they feel he would never regularly do himself.
“Greedflation is forcing families to make choices like eating cereal for dinner to save money. Kellogg’s CEO is bragging about it while they show the huge climb in corporate profits that helped create the problem in the first place. F--- this sh--,” a critic posted on X.
“Meanwhile, he’s eating at 5 star restaurants every night and when he isn’t, his personal chef cooks him dinner. Absolutely disgusting. Eat. The. Rich,” one person commented on an Instagram post of the clip.
Pilnick’s annual salary is $1 million plus up to $4.4 million more in bonuses as of September 2023, per a filing with the SEC.
Companies Are Starting to Give Employees Money for Rent
Amid an escalating housing affordability crisis, nearly half of employers are stepping up to offer financial assistance for employee housing.
Forty-seven percent of employers are considering or already providing rent assistance to their employees, according to a survey by JW Surety Bonds, signaling a shift in the landscape of employment benefits.
The survey, encompassing anonymous feedback from 710 employees and 310 employers, sheds light on the burgeoning trend of employer-based housing benefits as a strategic response to the mounting pressures of the housing market.
With more than one-quarter of employees willing to switch jobs for housing perks and a portion favoring the benefits over traditional salary increases, the initiative could be the catalyst for a larger change in priorities in the modern workplace.
These Major Companies Are Using AI To Snoop Through Employees’ Messages
The work from home movement has given way for more employee chats to take place online. However, remote workers may want to practice caution before chatting through keyboards amid new reports that artificial intelligence could snoop through messages.
Several companies, including Walmart, Delta, T-Mobile, Chevron and Starbucks, are now reportedly monitoring employee conversations on messaging apps using software from a startup A.I. company called "Aware."
"Aware's" software is said to scan platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams for keywords that may indicate employee dissatisfaction and potential safety risks.
The company claims it has already assessed up to 20 billion individual messages from more than 3 million employees.
Sony Is Laying Off 900 PlayStation Employees
Sony says it’s laying off around 900 employees of its PlayStation division, a reduction of its global headcount of around 8 percent. Sony’s layoffs will impact a variety of its PlayStation studios, including Insomniac Games, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla Games, and Firesprite. Sony’s layoffs are the latest in a wave that has been impacting the gaming and tech industries throughout 2024.
Stock Market
Alphabet Loses $70B In Market Value After Google’s ‘Woke’ AI Chatbot Disaster
Google’s parent company lost more than $70 billion in market value in a single trading day after its “woke” chatbot’s bizarre image debacle stoked renewed fears among investors about its heavily promoted AI tool.
Shares of Alphabet sank 4.4% to close at $138.75 in the week’s first day of trading on Monday. The Google’s parent’s stock moved slightly higher in premarket trading on Tuesday.
Tech
OpenAI Alleges New York Times ‘Hacked’ ChatGPT For Lawsuit Evidence
OpenAI asked a judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times’ lawsuit against it, alleging that the media company “paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products,” such as ChatGPT, to generate 100 examples of copyright infringement for its case.
In a filing Monday in Manhattan federal court, OpenAI alleged it took the Times “tens of thousands of attempts to generate the highly anomalous results,” and that the company did so using “deceptive prompts that blatantly violate OpenAI’s terms of use.”
“Normal people do not use OpenAI’s products in this way,” OpenAI wrote in the filing.
The “hacking” that OpenAI alleges in the filing could also be called prompt engineering or “red-teaming,” a common way for artificial intelligence trust and safety teams, ethicists, academics and tech companies to “stress-test” AI systems for vulnerabilities. It’s a common practice in the AI industry and a popular way to alert companies to issues within their systems, similar to how cybersecurity professionals stress-test companies’ websites for weaknesses.
How To Get A Job In Tough Times: All The Advice You Need To Succeed From A Top Executive Recruiter
There’s an old saying, “Tough times make tough people.” In this book, Jack Kelly will help guide you every step of the way in your job search to ensure that you stay strong, resilient and positive, and get that great, new job.
