Tag: Employment

Multimodal Learning for Employment Marketplace Recommendation

ZipRecruiter has built one of the world’s largest, online, double-sided job marketplaces. It enables job-seekers to find their next great career opportunity, and helps employers discover the best available candidates for their open positions. A key feature of our marketplace is making ‘t...

The One Word I’d Like You To Please Stop Calling Me

I’ve received a lot of compliments over the years. And I’ve disliked most of them. While I’m working on being gracious and accepting well wishes, there is still one word that strikes my ire. It’s the kind of compliment you only get when you’ve gone through some...

SECURE Act 2.0 Startup Opportunity & Finch’s Universal Employment API

A year ago, Congress passed the SECURE Act 2.0, expanding the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019, and further strengthening the retirement system throughout America. The SECURE Act 2.0 adds new provisions designed to make it easier for Americans, both who...

“She — Cession:” Housing & Employment Crisis

I was re — housed with a different person who was in recovery. She seemed legit by virtue of a background check…that is until my room was raided for my clothes, my tax return, lock out of my Venmo and being blamed for a wine bottle placed by someone else on my refrigerator shelf&hel...

Making a late claim about discrimination in the employment tribunal

If you have already missed the time limit you can still make a claim about discrimination to an employment tribunal. A tribunal always has power to grant an extension of time to hear a late claim on the ground that it would be “just and equitable” to do so. The law about this is in se...

Autism and Employment

I only officially learned I had Asperger’s several months ago, but I came to realize I was on the spectrum several years ago as I was researching my son’s autism. As I shared what I learned, my wife and brother both kept asking me if I was perhaps autistic. Since autism is associated wit...