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Washington, D.C. Ranked Nation’s Best City for Black Entrepreneurs
Incfile, a Texas-based firm that assists startups with official filings, conducted a study ranking Washington, D.C. as the nation’s best city for Black entrepreneurs. The study ranked the 10 best and five worst cities for Black entrepreneurs to start their...
Boomers, Meet Gen Z: How Reverse Mentoring is Building the Workforce of the Future
A business is nothing without a productive team — but with a fluctuating workforce with varying degrees of digital proficiency between younger and older workers, employers are finding that the traditional structure of workplace relationships and mentorship is not...
Freelance vs. Full-Time: How to Decide Which Is Best for You
There are plenty of reasons why you might choose to freelance instead of taking a full-time job in your industry, whether it's to work remotely, do something more creative or otherwise gain freedom or flexibility over your work life. It can also be helpful in terms of...
Should You Hire Gig Workers?
The freelance (or gig) economy is here to stay. There are a growing number of people who think their work is undervalued and are willing to piecemeal their work to various companies in the form of short-term contractual labor in order to meet the compensation they...
How To Get Rich as a Gig Worker
Working gigs is a perfectly acceptable way to earn a living, and more and more people are realizing it. Currently, the U.S. has around 70 million gig workers, a number that is expected to steadily increase to over 90 million by 2028, according to Statista. To learn...
Whitmer to Partner with Google to Offer Free Job Training for Michigan Residents
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced new partnership with Google that will help connect people in Michigan searching for jobs with free training to help them land jobs in growing fields. This collaboration will connect 500 job seekers with in Michigan with access to Google...
Why Many of America’s Biggest Companies Won’t Reveal Pay Data by Race
More companies are disclosing their internal data on racial pay equity. The bad news: even more companies aren’t ready to share, and that suggests progress at reaching parity in pay between white and non-white employees remains slow across the corporate landscape. An...
Woman Lands Job Interview after Sending Meme in Response to Rejection Letter
There are more bizarre ways to score a job interview than you may think. Tiktok user @swedishswan is proving this to be true. The woman shares she woke up to the unfortunate news one morning, receiving an email from a company she had applied to...
