Author: Olivia

Make your resume match what you want to talk about. That one job you worked three months and hated everyone and everything about it, don’t put it in your work history, or resume. Leave the months off and just put the year you worked as the date. For 90% of jobs they don’t care other than you being semi qualified for the position. If you are in a senior position or a degree requirement field like healthcare services or legal field that is different but if you working at Target, food services, retail or fast food, nobody is going to really care about it being real timeframes or not.

I just read this article (link) about how Microsoft Germany is using AI to disrupt businesses and save time. They have a chat system that can handle speech-to-text phone calls and automatically transcribe and summarize them. This way, the agents of the call center don’t have to manually type in the content of the calls. The article says that this chat system can save 500 working hours a day for a large Microsoft customer in the Netherlands, which receives 30,000 calls a day. That’s impressive! But what’s even more impressive is that the prototype for the project was created within two hours, and a single developer implemented the project in two weeks. That’s some amazing productivity! Link in desc

I recently started working at a tax prep firm a month ago, I've received 2 paychecks so far, and after receiving the second one, I thought the pay was a lot lower than expected, so I did the math and found out I worked 37 hours and 14 minutes, but my paycheck said I worked 33 hours and 43.8 minutes. I electronically check in at work so I have a recorded history of each check in/out. I talked to a friend and she said my hours may have been shorted, but I work a bare minimum of 3 hours a day, 5 days a week, and even after completely excluding any extra mins( ex. Getting to work 5 mins early, staying 30 mins later than usual), my pay should still have been higher than what was on the paycheck. I like my job and want to keep it, but I…