All posts tagged: careers

Doomjobbing: how the modern job hunt became a vicious loop | Work & careers

Doomjobbing: how the modern job hunt became a vicious loop | Work & careers

Published by Sam Flores

Name: Doomjobbing. Age: Old, but increasing in frequency. Appearance: Imagine a recruitment website sucking the life from you. Is this related to doomscrolling, by any chance? How perceptive of you. Remind me what that is, again. Doomscrolling? It’s where you find yourself sinking into a rabbit hole of short-form content designed to reinforce your worst perceptions of the world. And now what is doomjobbing? It’s that, but for job ads. I don’t understand. OK, so imagine you’re stuck in a low-paying and spiritually unfulfilling job. You want out. Where do you look? A job listings site, probably. Now, imagine that you look at so many job listings sites, filtering through an infinite compendium of jobs that aren’t suitable, or don’t pay enough, or require qualifications that you don’t have. Imagine this is how you spend all your free time. Pick a word that might describe the sensation it causes. Doom? Doom! The experience is that of repeatedly thwarted hope. You see a job you like, put time and effort into an application, then get your …

DeviantArt Is Helping Artists Cut Through The Noise and Fuel Careers

DeviantArt Is Helping Artists Cut Through The Noise and Fuel Careers

Published by José Betancourt

More than 25 years after its founding, the site has evolved into the internet’s leading platform for artists to grow and monetize their audience. If you spend much time online — especially around Gen Z — you may have noticed that Y2K  internet culture is having a moment. Scrolling fatigue, coupled with a reliable nostalgia factor, has sparked a return to the user-generated, creator-centric format and aesthetics of the Blogosphere and early social media. Launched in 2000, DeviantArt is to many an avatar for this era and synonymous with Web 2.0’s niche subcultures. But in 2026, DeviantArt is more accessible, widely used, and creator-friendly than ever before. After a period of network decline through the 2010s, the platform underwent a multi-year overhaul to modernize its user experience and strengthen its core offerings. As a result, usership has been on a steady rise since 2019; DeviantArt now boasts more than 108 million users worldwide. Courtesy of DeviantArt The site calls itself a home for artists of all kinds, with more than 100 million new artworks across …

Tell us your experience with AI in job interviews | Work & careers

Tell us your experience with AI in job interviews | Work & careers

Published by Sam Flores

Companies are increasingly using AI in their hiring processes – including conducting job interviews themselves. With this in mind, we would like to hear your experience of job interviews that were conducted partially or wholly by AI. Share your experience You can tell us your experience with AI job interviews using this form. Your responses, which can be anonymous, are secure as the form is encrypted and only the Guardian has access to your contributions. We will only use the data you provide us for the purpose of the feature and we will delete any personal data when we no longer require it for this purpose. For alternative ways to get in touch securely please see our tips guide. Tell us about your experience with AI job interviews Please include as much detail as possible. What was the job / area of work you were applying for? Please include as much detail as possible. If you are happy to, please upload a photo of yourself here Optional Please note, the maximum file size is 5.7 …

Ministers plan new service, but CEC plans to bid

Ministers plan new service, but CEC plans to bid

Published by skeptic

More from this theme Recent articles A new careers advice service for schools and colleges will replace the functions of the Careers & Enterprise Company, government has confirmed, but the organisation plans to bid to run its successor. The CEC has been responsible for supporting schools with careers advice since 2014, when it was founded by then-education secretary Nicky Morgan, now its chair. It receives annual grant funding of around £30 million. Schools Week revealed last week the government was considering a different funding model, launching a market engagement notice regarding “future support for schools and colleges to deliver careers education, information, advice and guidance”. At a market engagement event on Tuesday, the Department for Education (DfE) revealed that ministers intended to create a new careers advice service by August 2027. Officials confirmed that this new service would replace the current functions of the CEC, while building on aspects of the current service. The new service would be delivered nationally, but the supplier would also be expected to provide grant funding for existing local careers …

DfE considers new approach to funding

DfE considers new approach to funding

Published by skeptic

Government begins market engagement over ‘future support for schools and colleges to deliver careers education’ Government begins market engagement over ‘future support for schools and colleges to deliver careers education’ More from this theme Recent articles Ministers are considering a shake-up of how they fund support for careers advice in schools and colleges, raising questions about the future of the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC). Founded by education secretary Nicky Morgan in 2014, the CEC has been responsible for supporting careers advice services for more than a decade and oversees a national network of careers hubs. It receives around £30 million a year in grant funding. But the Department for Education (DfE) recently published a market engagement notice regarding “future support for schools and colleges to deliver careers education, information, advice and guidance”. The notice contains little detail, but states that a supplier engagement event will take place on Tuesday. At the event, the DfE said it will “share our broad plans for how we want to continue to support schools and colleges to improve …

Office hookworms: how to deal with colleagues who steal all the credit | Work & careers

Office hookworms: how to deal with colleagues who steal all the credit | Work & careers

Published by Sam Flores

Name: Office hookworms. Age: A recent term for a very old complaint. Appearance: By the time they’ve shown themselves, it may be too late. You don’t have to tell me; I’ve encountered hookworms before. In the workplace? No, in south-east Asia. In that case you’re probably referring to one of two main species of roundworm belonging to the genera Ancylostoma and Necator, but their office-based counterparts have a similar modus operandi. What, entering through the skin as larvae and travelling along the host’s circulatory system to the stomach via the lungs, before maturing into adult worms in the intestines? More like embarking on a secret self-promotional campaign by taking credit for the work of others. OK. It’s not quite the same thing, is it? There’s more: office hookworms also deploy streams of passive-aggressive commentary in a bid to undermine their colleagues. That’s still a long way from laying 30,000 eggs a day in someone’s digestive tract. The point is, they’re behaving in an analogous fashion to the intestine-based parasite, but at work. Says who? Susie …

A new start after 60: I’d had several careers but no degree – then I became a palaeontologist at 62 | Life and style

A new start after 60: I’d had several careers but no degree – then I became a palaeontologist at 62 | Life and style

Published by Sam Flores

Craig Munns has a large model of a T rex on his desk. He got it with a magazine subscription two decades ago. One day, a few years ago, he was sitting in his study, which was dense with books and yellow sticky notes and posters charting evolution from single cells upward, and he thought, “What am I going to do next in my life?” And his eyes lit upon the T rex. Munns had recently taken on a job at the public library in Canberra, but it had always rankled with him that he had not studied for a degree, starting instead as an electronics trainee after he left school in Sydney, Australia. So he decided to enrol as a part-time student. He graduated at 62, with honours in palaeontology from the University of New England in Armidale, NSW. Now 65, Munns works at Geoscience Australia, a government agency that conducts geoscientific research. His main task is monitoring mineral deposits, but he sounds most animated when he talks about a palaeontology paper he is …

17 acting careers ruined by a single role: ‘Overnight I lost everything’

17 acting careers ruined by a single role: ‘Overnight I lost everything’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Most movie stars can survive a flop or two. But then there are roles that completely upend an actor’s career, leaving them out of work or forever changed in the eye of the public. It’s not really possible to talk about Faye Dunaway’s career without mentioning her notorious performance in Mommie Dearest, for instance. Or to google Brandon Routh in any other context than “what happened to Superman Returns star Brandon Routh?” Often this is unfair – women historically tend to bear the brunt of career-shaking backlash, and there are typically many different reasons why movie stardom hits a wall. But whenever an actor does seem to drop off the radar, it’s usually a specific film that is to blame. From Meg Ryan’s unfairly maligned erotic thriller to the body-swap comedy that prevented Judge Reinhold from becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest …

In planning family and careers, young Sikh American women say balancing act is their own

In planning family and careers, young Sikh American women say balancing act is their own

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — The questions that researcher Pavita Singh asked her interview subjects were those any young woman might be pondering: Do you want kids or children? When? With whom?  But the women in Singh’s study — 30 Sikh Americans between 18 to 24 years of age — answered these questions in ways that showed how their plans around having children balance the future of their faith tradition with the rhythms of modern American life. In academic terms, Singh hoped to shed light on how culture shapes women’s “reproductive identity.” But Singh’s research also drew a portrait of a generation at the threshold: young women in their late teens and early 20s holding their faith in one hand and their futures in the other. Eighteen of the young women — 60% — hoped to have children with a spouse, with a third of that group preferring that spouse to be a Sikh, reflecting their desire to keep the faith alive. That desire for cultural and religious continuity emerged as one of the defining threads of the …

Why Women Get Stuck in Their Careers (and How to Move Again)

Why Women Get Stuck in Their Careers (and How to Move Again)

Published by Jenni Sidey

Feeling stuck in your career is more common than most people admit. On paper, you might be doing well. You are competent, reliable, and often the person others turn to when something needs to get done. Yet, inside, you may feel flat, stalled, or unsure what comes next. You are not alone. In our work with women across industries and countries, we see the same patterns appear again and again. The good news is that once you can see what is keeping you stuck, you can begin to change it. Signs you might be stuck You may be stuck if you notice some of the following: You have not progressed in role, scope, or responsibility for some time. You feel bored, underused, or disconnected from your work. You are working hard, but your efforts are not translating into visible advancement. You are unsure what you actually want next, so you stay where you are. You keep thinking about making a change, but take little or no action. None of this means you are failing. It …