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Ken Griffin’s companies are making their biggest bet yet on entry-level talent, as Citadel interns kick off their program with an offsite in Palm Beach on Monday.They’re among the more than 350 interns at the company and its sister firm, market maker Citadel Securities, and comprise the biggest global class to date. The companies, known for recruiting the sharpest quants and traders, accepted a miniscule 0.36% of applicants out of more than 115,900 applications, up 6.4% from last year’s record.”The reason our class is larger than ever is precisely because the business has seen how valuable campus talent can be,”…

As graduation season collides with diminishing entry-level roles and slower hiring, the former distinguished engineer at Google has notes for fresh grads.Kelsey Hightower, who retired from Google in 2023, told Business Insider that the current job market is vastly different from the one he entered decades ago, but young people still have more control over their careers than they may think.”AI is definitely a very convenient reason to look at what you’re currently doing,” said Hightower of AI’s effect on the workplace, adding that the industry is undergoing a “recalibration.””The fact is that for the last 20 to 30 years,…

You’ve heard of China’s “rat people,” now get ready for India’s “cockroaches.”On Saturday, hundreds of young Indians swarmed the country’s capital, New Delhi. Many wore masks depicting cockroach faces in support of a satirical movement called the “Cockroach Janta Party.”The word “janta” means “people” in Hindi, and the CJP is a play on the name of India’s ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The movement is a protest against high youth unemployment in the subcontinent, corruption in the government, and failures of the education ministry.The term “cockroach” was inadvertently coined during a May Supreme Court…

Fired “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley says CBS News’ top editor, Bari Weiss, is directing coverage to be more aligned with the Trump administration’s views.During an appearance on The New York Times podcast, “The Interview,” Pelley elaborated on his June 2 statement, in which he said CBS News’ new management had instructed him to “inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.””There was a thumb on the scale for the president’s version of events that I felt was a level of political influence that I had never seen in 37 years at CBS News,” Pelley told “The Interview.”Pelley said…

Throughout his life, my dad was incredibly focused on being successful and providing for our family, trying to ensure all of us had the best possible future.He was good at it, too. He built us a beautiful home by the beach, studied with me so I’d get straight A’s, and took our family on countless vacations to Hawaii and Yosemite — all while running a business and putting money into his retirement fund.Along the way, he postponed a lot of things he wanted to do, like finally taking that trip to Europe, buying his dream car, and relocating to Hawaii…

I built the first part of my career in Mexico, in Spanish, surrounded by a professional culture where I understood almost everything about my day-to-day life.After relocating to the UK, that shifted. English became the language of my entire working day — not just formal presentations or important calls, but emails, feedback, meetings, quick messages, office small talk, and the situations where being clear matters almost as much as being right.It was not a matter of adjusting in places; it required rebuilding everything.I’m more confident in SpanishI am fluent in English, and I have worked in it for years. I…

Mammoth Brands wants to take on traditional consumer packaged goods companies, armed with a portfolio of disruptors in the personal and baby care categories that have won over consumers and retailers alike.For the last decade, upstarts like those owned by Mammoth have challenged the relevance and longstanding dominance of legacy giants like Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Kimberly-Clark. The trend has also played out across packaged food and beverage companies, like Poppi and Olipop taking on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. Consumers’ loyalty no longer draws on just brand recognition. Newcomers can offer shoppers something different: better prices, higher quality or fewer…

Star podcaster Steven Bartlett better watch his back.”I tell Steven all the time, I’m coming for you, because I think the most valuable consumer in the world is a female consumer,” Maggie Sellers Reum, Bartlett’s podcast protégé and the host of “Hot Smart Rich,” told Business Insider. “So be ready.”Bartlett is looking to turn his “Diary of a CEO” podcast into a multifaceted media empire. One piece: signing and nurturing other talent. His first big test case is Sellers Reum, who he recently invested seven figures in through his media company, FlightStory.Sellers Reum described how Bartlett is applying his playbook…

New Yorkers, famously, are walking here. But just about 25% of them are driving too.Commuting undergirds New York’s economy, and shapes the daily lives of its workers. New York’s robust public transit system carries around six million passengers daily, and around 1.6 million people drive into Manhattan’s Central Business District daily.But not all commutes are created equal. As politicians like Zohran Mamdani eye affordability measures, proposals like free and fast buses have taken the spotlight. Longer commutes can have real health impacts, lower worker satisfaction, and dent productivity. In New York City, bus riders, and those in further-flung, historically more…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jacqueline Matwick, 38, who moved from Arizona to Turin, Italy, with her family in 2024. Matwick was anticipating receiving citizenship by descent through her husband, but the Italian government changed the requirements after they moved, and the Matwicks no longer qualified. The following has been edited for length and clarity.We were in New York for a long time. I was there eight years, my husband was there seven, and our oldest child was born there.We were new parents in New York City, and childcare was insane — it’s expensive everywhere, but…