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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Catherine Fisher, a career expert at LinkedIn, based in San Francisco. This story has been edited for length and clarity.It’s becoming harder for job seekers to stand out.A lot of people are mass-applying and using AI tools that make them sound like everyone else, and companies are being more selective.Since it’s become so competitive, people are throwing spaghetti at the wall — but that’s not the best approach to land a job when companies are being more selective. If you’re just scrolling and mass applying, and nothing’s happening, you’re what we call “doomjobbing.”…

The 9-to-5 lifestyle never quite suited Kelan Kline. His first job out of college in 2012 was in insurance sales and involved cold calling.”It lasted about two weeks,” he told Business Insider. Quick corporate stints became “kind of a recurring story for me.”He cycled through several jobs before becoming a jail deputy in Rochester, New York. By 2016, he and his wife, Brittany, were newly married, had bought a starter home, and were paying down roughly $40,000 in student-loan debt.”There was a lot of financial burden on us,” he said. Plus, they wanted more control over their time.The couple started…

Logomania may be “out” in fashion, but that’s certainly not the case in beauty.Wearing a monogram on your face thanks to under-eye masks and patches has increasingly become a flex. These little patches, once reserved for the hidden stages of getting ready in the bathroom, are now vehicles for self-expression, as professionals wear them while running errands, grabbing a cup of coffee, or even posting selfies online.”Under-eye masks have been a staple in beauty for years, but they’ve evolved from purely functional skincare products into cultural and social beauty moments,” Nicolette Bosco, vice president and divisional merchandise manager for Macy’s…

US shoppers want their stuff faster, and more retailers are responding with delivery options that would have been almost unthinkable a few years ago.Comments this week from Target, Walmart, and Home Depot show that a new benchmark of three hours or less is emerging for customers willing to pay an express fee.”The whole joke about doing five or six trips to the hardware store for every project, hopefully that can be a thing of the past,” supply chain consultant Ralph Asher told Business Insider.Asher was a pioneer of the concept of fulfilling e-commerce orders from stores back in 2018, when…

Brady O’Rourke in Crystal, Minn., holds a sign he made to block the view of a Flock camera, which tracks vehicles driving along the road. It’s one of several actions Americans are taking to oppose this police surveillance technology. Meg Anderson/NPR hide caption toggle caption Meg Anderson/NPR A few times a week, Brady O’Rourke walks to the busiest street near his house in Crystal, Minn., carrying a large metal pole with a bright yellow sign taped to the end. It’s a roof rake, normally used to scrape snow off a house, but O’Rourke has different plans for this one. At…

This is an as-told-essay based on a conversation with Joslyn Kelly, owner of J’s Breakfast Club in Gary, Indiana, which experienced a major power outage following a derecho, or a widespread, long-lived wind storm, on August 11. As of Thursday evening, over 57,000 customers remained without power, according to Northern Indiana Public Service Co. This story has been edited for length and clarity.The day started out decent, even kind of sunny, and then went from gloomy to all the way pitch dark as the storm came in.We lost power around noon and had customers at the time. I was sitting…

“Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan said buying a $330 million ranch kept him from retiring.On Tuesday’s episode of the “Rodeo Time” podcast hosted by Dale Brisby, Sheridan said his purchase of the Four Sixes Ranch prompted him to sign a deal with Paramount and continue working.”I was set up to retire. I was going to be done after ‘Yellowstone,'” Sheridan said.The writer and producer said he had already paid cash for another ranch in Weatherford, Texas, and “didn’t owe anybody anything.””I was going to put my feet up and show horses, and have my little hobby herd over here, and that…

Mark Zuckerberg has a hot new — but also 200-year-old — pad in Ireland.The billionaire CEO of Meta and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have purchased a nearly Gothic property called Strancally Castle in Waterford County, Ireland. The property is located about 140 miles south of the company’s international headquarters in Dublin.”Mark and his family are excited to continue caring for this historic home and look forward to spending time in Ireland, where Meta maintains its international headquarters,” Zuckerberg’s spokesperson, Brian Baker, said in an email statement to Business Insider.The news was first reported by The Irish Times on Thursday, which…

Duane Davis appears in court during his murder trial, related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, in Clark County District Court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. Steve Marcus/POOL Las Vegas Sun/ AP hide caption toggle caption Steve Marcus/POOL Las Vegas Sun/ AP LAS VEGAS — Jurors on Thursday heard Duane “Keffe D” Davis tell detectives in 2008 that his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson fired the shots that killed Tupac Shakur. Davis, who said in the interview that he was also in the car with Anderson, is accused of orchestrating the…

Luckily, cardboard floats.An Amazon delivery drone dropped a Texas woman’s package into her backyard pool on Monday, flummoxing the woman, who told Business Insider she didn’t think she selected the drone delivery option.”I was inside the house and I heard it,” Lindsey Austen said on Thursday. “I was like, ‘Is the second coming of Jesus happening?'”An Amazon customer in Texas was not enthused when her first drone-delivered order was dropped into her swimming pool. After hearing the loud buzzing of the drone arriving, she ran outside to record the delivery, and to her surprise, it landed in her pool. pic.twitter.com/6TIcrJIVAR—…