All posts tagged: Recruiting

Inside UCLA football coach Bob Chesney’s recruiting revival

Inside UCLA football coach Bob Chesney’s recruiting revival

Published by Sam Flores

The carpet rolls out. Stars pose with their parents. Cameras flash, capturing VIP guests emerging from luxury cars. It has all of the makings of a Hollywood premiere. Only the carpet that lines the entrance is royal blue instead of scarlet red. The “stars” are teenage football players on recruiting visits. The luxury car is parked on the turf of Spaulding Field. And the Hollywood show is in Westwood. Despite the parallels, the feeling remains the same — something is brewing within the UCLA football program and it may yield awards. The Bruins still are riding the high of their hire of coach Bob Chesney on Dec. 9. And no group has felt the smoke of the Chesney Train more than the 2027 recruiting class. The Bruins boast the No. 12 recruiting class in the nation and fourth best in the Big Ten, improvements of 50 and 11 spots, respectively, from the previous year, according to 247Sports’ composite rankings. UCLA had not produced a top-15 class since 2016. Chesney’s inaugural group features 22 commits, including …

US Sanctions 3 People, 2 Firms Over Allegedly Recruiting Colombian Mercenaries in Sudan War

US Sanctions 3 People, 2 Firms Over Allegedly Recruiting Colombian Mercenaries in Sudan War

Published by Sam Flores

CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions on three people and two firms over allegedly recruiting and deploying Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s war, which has entered its fourth year with no end in sight. The sanctions, announced by the Department of Treasury late Friday, were the latest by the United States on the RSF, which have been at war against the Sudanese military since April 2023. The group has been accused by rights groups of atrocities amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war which created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The RSF was born out of feared Arab Janjaweed militias, notorious for atrocities in the early 2000s against people identifying as East or Central African in Sudan’s western region of Darfur. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said the sanctioned individuals and firms were involved in “recruiting and deploying former Colombian military personnel to Sudan to fight on behalf of the RSF.” They include a Bogota, Colombia-based employment agency, Fénix, which was …

ICE is recruiting cops to track down kids

ICE is recruiting cops to track down kids

Published by Sam Flores

Early in Donald Trump’s second administration, officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement began making unannounced visits to the schools and homes of unaccompanied immigrant minors, meaning children who don’t have a parent or guardian in the country. Officials branded these visits as “wellness checks,” ostensibly aimed at ensuring that the children in question did not fall victim to human trafficking and were keeping up with their obligations for their immigration cases. Other agencies were also enlisted to make such visits, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. But the true purpose of these visits has been called into question by reports that, in some cases, they have led directly to deportations. Newly released documents suggest that the Trump administration has turned this program, ostensibly intended to ensure the well-being of immigrant kids who don’t live with their parents, into another means for ICE and similar agencies to track down children and their sponsors (most often family members) who may be eligible for deportation. These documents, provided …

Ofsted recruiting inspectors in ‘groups’ under new pilot

Ofsted recruiting inspectors in ‘groups’ under new pilot

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More from this theme Recent articles Ofsted has announced a new way of recruiting “groups” of school and college leaders to work as part-time inspectors, in a bid to make inspections “more collaborative than ever before”. School and college inspections are currently carried out by full-time his majesty’s inspectors (HMI) and contracted Ofsted inspectors (OIs), who are typically serving leaders. OIs typically join Ofsted “as individuals”, but the inspectorate says this “can restrict chances for two-way professional reflection and shared learning”. Under a pilot announced this morning, Ofsted is trialling recruiting OIs as “groups of peers drawn from professional organisations and networks they’re already part of”. This includes multi-academy trusts, local authorities, dioceses and local school networks. But inspectors will not be paid directly, with payments instead going to their employers. The scheme is already underway, says Ofsted, and is hoped to encourage OIs to “form a professional community with each other and with HMI”. OI not paid directly, under scheme Currently, contracted Ofsted inspectors are paid directly for their work. As a team inspector on a …

OpenAI Announces Major Expansion of London Office

OpenAI Announces Major Expansion of London Office

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OpenAI has announced plans to turn its London office into its largest research hub outside of the United States. The company—which established a UK office in 2023—says it will expand its London-based research team, scooping up talent emerging from leading British universities. It has not indicated how many researchers it will hire. “The UK brings together world class talent and leading scientific institutions and universities, making it an ideal place to deliver the important research which will ensure our AI is safe, useful and benefits everyone,” said Mark Chen, chief research officer at OpenAI, in a statement. The plans bring OpenAI into direct competition for top research talent with Google DeepMind, the AI lab run by British researcher Demis Hassabis, which is headquartered in London. DeepMind has long-running partnerships with Oxford University and the University of Cambridge, where it sponsors professorships, funds research, and works alongside researchers. At the latest careers fair at Oxford University, the floor was packed with undergraduates looking for technical roles and recruiters hiring for AI-related positions.“The demand and supply is …

Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley

Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley

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Since the middle of last year, there have been at least three major AI “acqui-hires” in Silicon Valley. Meta invested more than $14 billion in Scale AI and brought on its CEO, Alexandr Wang; Google spent a cool $2.4 billion to license Windsurf’s technology and fold its cofounders and research teams into DeepMind; and Nvidia wagered $20 billion on Groq’s inference technology and hired its CEO and other staffers. The frontier AI labs, meanwhile, have been playing a high stakes and seemingly never-ending game of talent musical chairs. The latest reshuffle began three weeks ago, when OpenAI announced it was rehiring several researchers who had departed less than two years earlier to join Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines. At the same time, Anthropic, which was itself founded by former OpenAI staffers, has been poaching talent from the ChatGPT maker. OpenAI, in turn, just hired a former Anthropic safety researcher to be its “head of preparedness.” The hiring churn happening in Silicon Valley represents the “great unbundling” of the tech startup, as Dave Munichiello, an investor …

Apple was once ‘carpet bombing’ Tesla with recruiting calls, per Elon Musk

Apple was once ‘carpet bombing’ Tesla with recruiting calls, per Elon Musk

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Apple once had ambitions of building an electric car, and during that period, per a new interview with Elon Musk, the company was “relentlessly” trying to poach Tesla employees. Elon Musk says Tesla employees were ‘relentlessly’ pursued by Apple recruiters Elon Musk recently sat down with Stripe co-founder John Collison and podcaster Dwarkesh Patel for a lengthy, three-hour interview. Topics included space GPUs, xAI, DOGE, and a lot more. Apple is mentioned a couple of times, with the main occurrence centering on the topic of building a team. Musk talks hiring, training, and delegation when scaling a business, and covers some challenges he’s faced in that area. Musk tells the story of Tesla once having a big target on its back as a place competitors would seek to poach employees. He specifically names Apple and its recruiting teams as being a big offender. Here’s what he said: Tesla had a further challenge where when Tesla had very successful periods, we would be relentlessly recruited from. Like, relentlessly. When Apple had their electric car program, they …

The Truth About ICE’s Recruiting Push

The Truth About ICE’s Recruiting Push

Published by Daniella Wilson

In the second Trump administration, immigration policy is made with big round numbers. There’s a formula: First the White House sets an ambitious goal—1 million deportations a year, 3,000 immigration arrests a day. Then it presses the federal workforce to meet the target. Last year, Trump officials pledged to double staffing at ICE by adding 10,000 new deportation officers by January 2026. Stephen Miller treated the recruitment drive as a priority on par with the deportation push, demanding daily updates on the pace of hiring. Immigration and Customs Enforcement held job expos in multiple cities and dangled $50,000 bonuses, student-loan forgiveness, and other perks before potential recruits. Just after New Year’s Day, the Department of Homeland Security declared victory, celebrating an ICE hiring spree that “shattered expectations” and achieved a “120% Manpower Increase.” DHS said it received more than 220,000 applications (many candidates applied for three or four different jobs) and signed up 12,000 new officers, agents, and legal staff in about four months. No federal law-enforcement agency has ever expanded this fast. The percentage …