A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed.
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Is asking about U.S. citizenship an illegal interview question?
From About.com,
Are you a U.S. citizen?
Every interview I have had has asked this. Even pre-interview screening includes this question. Is it really illegal for them to ask this?
Note: Not really permissible on this site, but what would a good…
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Is job experience a poor predictor of job performance?
I was shocked by an implicit claim in an HBR article.
The most shocking part to me there is that job experience came dead last among those predictors of job performance. Alas the graph is from a talk, so it won't be that easy to see exactly what it…
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Do any ATS companies advertise entirely automated resume rejection?
It's not an unheard of notion that employers, particularly large tech companies, might use automated systems to reject candidates, without any human involvement.
This article claims the following:
... an ATS will scan your resume for keywords and…
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How is structural unemployment measured?
In light of today's Presidential Speech on jobs, I was reminded of something that I read in Bloomberg Businessweek.
With the jobless rate still above 9 percent, the untapped labor pool is deep. Yet some companies struggle to find qualified…
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In Canada, will there soon be more female doctors than male doctors?
Obviously no one can know the future with certainty. But several articles make statements regarding more women graduating with medical degrees than men and that in the near future more doctors will be women rather than men.
From here
For many…
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Do high-school-leaving exams decide your future?
Tomorrow my daughter will take her Gaokao exams. This is China's national end of high school exam for university entrance - something akin to Americas SAT or GRE exams. It is commonly said that such exams, "Decide their fate."
However, there are…
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Almost all the US jobs created between 2005-2015 "are temporary" (alt-work)
A piece of research from a pair of well-known economists, Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger as summarized in Quartz a couple of years ago:
“We find that 94% of net job growth in the past decade was in the alternative work category,” said Krueger.…
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Do mangakas have long work hours?
I've found several sources that explain that mangakas (manga artists) have to work insanely long hours to meet their deadlines.
In this Quora answer, an assistant mangaka claims:
We were well-paid, but worked 16-hour days , about 20-25 days per…
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Do veterans account for one in seven homeless US adults?
There seems to be a lot of attention towards unemployed/homeless military veterans in the USA. Are there any statistics or studies to show that this is some sort of pandemic, or at least unemployment/homelessness is more of a problem for ex-military…
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Are roughly 90% of H-1B visa workers in the IT sector paid below-market rates?
In an article penned last year by (present and former) IEEE-USA presidents, we read that (my experpts and emphsis):
In 2014 (the last year we have good data), Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro, and Tata Consultancy used 21,695 visas, or more than 25…
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Did a building supervisor in Spain get fined for not showing up to work for six years, unnoticed?
In this 2016 Huffington Post article, it says:
For six years, a building supervisor in Spain quietly collected a $41,500 salary from his local government without showing up for work.
And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for him…
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Are Australian Teachers only paid for 25 hours/week?
This news article from news.com.au quotes Kathy Margolis :
Despite all the time they put in, teachers are paid for just 25 hours a week, she added, as if they were part time.
Is this true?
Is it true in all states? (Or just in Queensland where…
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Are male nurses salaries higher than female nurses salaries?
A recent article on USA Today claims that on male nurses make more than female nurses:
even in an occupation that women overwhelmingly dominate, they [women] still earn less than men
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The gender gap for registered nurses' salaries amounts to a…
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Do recruiters hire people like themselves?
I have seen it quoted in various sources (e.g. this article in Forbes) that, in some way or another, people tend to unconsciously recruit people 'like themselves'. This can mean culturally, physically, having similar background, being from a similar…
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Is the Wonderlic test cross validated by any other test or data?
In a quite famous lecture Jordan Peterson lists what IQ you need to work in certain professions, based on the Wonderlic test.
Are there other sources to these claims than Wonderlic that gives similar (or different) results? I googled but could only…
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