Showing posts with label recruitment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recruitment. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

AI job scams are booming – and I was fooled by one. Here is how to avoid them

Fraudsters are using the promise of fake roles to trick job-seekers out of money, personal information or both, and with the help of AI they are more convincing than ever. But there are ways to spot them…

 https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/21/how-to-avoid-ai-online-job-recruitment-scams


Monday, April 20, 2026

FBI and Justice Department try to rebuild after wave of resignations and firings | PBS News

The FBI and Justice Department are scrambling to rebuild a depleted workforce after a wave of departures over the past year, with leaders easing hiring requirements and accelerating recruitment in ways that some current and former officials see as a lowering of long-accepted standards…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-and-justice-department-try-to-rebuild-after-wave-of-resignations-and-firings 


Friday, January 30, 2026

Celebrating Black Military Service Is Not “DEI Woke Shit.” It’s Essential to America’s Defense. – Mother Jones

Shortly after taking office, in February 2025, President Donald Trump abruptly fired General Charles "CQ" Brown, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as part of a purge of military leaders who advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. In March, Arlington National Cemetery scrubbed from its website educational materials about the history of Black service members, including the Tuskegee Airmen and even General Colin Powell, the first Black Joint Chiefs chairman. … 

With these and other petty moves executed by Pete Hegseth, Trump's loyalist secretary of "war," the White House and Pentagon appear strangely determined to undermine, and even erase the evidence of, Black patriotism—not to mention the military's hard-won reputation as an institution that embraces the talents and capabilities of all Americans…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/history-month-black-military-service-vietnam-war-heroes-dei-recruiting-hegseth-trump-defense/ 


 

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Pentagon asks civilian employees to join ‘volunteer force’ to aid Ice deportations

The job posting warns deployment locations "are not negotiable" and conditions "could be austere". Assignments last up to 180 days at facilities along the border and throughout the US interior, and detailing means the staff keeps their salary and benefits...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/trump-hegseth-pentagon-ice


 

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

How Tech Company Recruiters Sidestep Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The report found that there had been more than 136,000 applicants for 18,011 PERM openings that it examined, but that only 104 people were hired via advertisements — less than 1% — and those hirings were almost accidental. (The companies kept the foreign workers they were sponsoring, but came across a tiny smattering of qualified Americans, whom they also hired.) "The system is seriously flawed," the report stated. "The programs are being manipulated and abused."… 

Advocacy groups representing American tech workers have attacked the system repeatedly, challenging the notion that H-1Bs are bringing in the world's "best and brightest" by pointing out that the program makes no attempt to identify exceptional talent beyond requiring a bachelor's degree, relying instead on a lottery to award the visas. The real appeal of H-1Bs for employers, worker advocates say, is that they can pay their holders an average of 10% to 20% less, as several studies have found to be the case, which has helped suppress tech wages more broadly…

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment 



 

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Neo-Nazi group the Base finds a safe space to recruit Americans: the Russian internet

The video, meant to entice Americans to join its ranks, isn't on YouTube or even a social media site most people know. Instead, it's being hosted on Rutube, a Russian-government-sponsored knockoff...

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Elon Musk has put every lost young man on Twitter in the crosshairs of the far right

Playing on those insecurities, nationalist groups quickly begin confirming these young men's worst beliefs; they can't get a job because the government's gone "woke"; the girls who won't look twice at them are evil feminists out to emasculate western men; and the immigrants they're intimidated by are the real Big Bad, here to steal their lives, jobs and country.

Scary stuff for a teenager, but luckily the far right offers a comforting solution. Join us and be protected. Join us and be part of something. Join us and be somebody. This lasts until the combination of adolescent energy and zealotry turns tragic, and they are discarded. It is telling that none of the prominent online far-right groups have commented on the cases of Harris or Benincasa…


Thursday, September 22, 2022

What Stacey Abrams is really doing in Georgia.

Abrams said she wants people to "see the normalness" of activism and political engagement, and if they see that "normalness can be profound in how their lives get better, then they're going to be more willing to risk showing up and standing in that line and being rained on and being yelled at by some guy in a truck who's telling them to go home… 

"When you've never had to think about the hardship of voting, then yes, these conversations on voter suppression seem absurd to you. When you have never spent more than seven minutes in line, it is nearly impossible to imagine that there are poor Black people who stand in line for eight hours, miss an entire day's wages, risk losing their jobs simply to cast a ballot in an election that may or may not have any benefit in their lives."


Thursday, March 25, 2021

Far-Right Militias Are Recruiting On Facebook, Report Finds

...TPP found that Facebook is automatically creating pages for some of the militias from content that people are sharing, expanding the reach of the groups. This is not a new problem for the site, which in 2019 came under criticism for automatically generating pages for ISIS. In addition, BuzzFeed News and TTP found that the platform was directing people who "like" certain militia pages to check out others, effectively helping these movements recruit and radicalize new members...


Tuesday, March 24, 2020

White nationalists looking to weaponize coronavirus pandemic, both literally and figuratively

For the “accelerationists” of the white nationalist movement—the nihilistic young bigots and misogynists who “just want to watch the world burn”—the coronavirus pandemic is “truly a gift.” At a bare minimum, they see the current emphasis on “social distancing” and “sheltering in place” as a prime opportunity to reach more young people online for recruitment.

And some of them, it seems, are intent on making it into a weapon. According to a report this weekend from Hunter Walker and Jana Winter at Yahoo News, neo-Nazi terrorists on a Telegram chat channel discussed finding ways to turn the contagion into a bioweapon, including spreading the disease through spray bottles, spreading their spit, and contaminating objects in public places.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/3/23/1930417/-White-nationalists-looking-to-weaponize-coronavirus-pandemic-both-literally-and-figuratively








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