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Kymberly McClain struggled to find work for nearly two years after resigning from her deputy director role. Kymberly McClain This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kymberly McClain, a 45-year-old who lives in Las Vegas. She previously worked at a small nonprofit until resigning in 2024. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Two years ago, I was working as a deputy director at a small nonprofit in California focused on providing resources for the homeless population. After some leadership changes, I didn't feel like I had the support I needed. In August 2024, I resigned. When I started looking for a new job, I was so confident. I'd gained experience and felt like I'd parted ways on good terms, even getting a letter of recommendation. I thought I was going to slide into another role. Instead, I struggled to find work for nearly two years. I started applying for jobs I never expected to consider When I started looking, I was applying for deputy director, program manager, case manager, and other social service roles. I used LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, CareerBuilder, and other job sites. I sought out résumé help because I had been out of

As Rita Cooper (Carrie Coon) shivers outside in the cold, waiting to get picked up from a sleepover gone awry with a not-yet-cult, its leader, Ricki (Lily James), follows her out with a mug of tea. “I recognize your pain. I see what’s underneath it,” she tells her. “It’s my gift, seeing people for who they really are.” It’s Ricki alone, Ricki suggests, who grasps exactly how alienated Rita has become from her own seemingly stable life. It’s Ricki who thinks to ask questions about how unseen she feels, Ricki who gets what Rita is running from, Ricki who sees what she’s running toward. By the time Rita’s ride arrives, she’s decided to stay. There’s nowhere better for her to go, no one else who understands or even could. The Liberation The Bottom Line Heavy with powerhouse performances. Venue: Telluride Film Festival Cast: Carrie Coon, Bella Ramsey, Lily James, Odessa Young, Tracy Letts, Jamie Ray Newman Director: Guy Nattiv Screenwriters: Guy Nattiv, Noa Berman Herzberg 2 hours 4 minutes Or so Rita believes. In The Liberation, writer-director Guy Nattiv ( Skin , Golda ) grapples with the choices made by the real Rita, his own grandmother, extending her the profound

Photo by Onbrand If you make a purchase after clicking on links within this article, Conley Media may earn a commission. The news and editorial departments had no role in the creation of this content. Company LinkedIn branding is not a logo refresh on the company page. Buyers meet your people first — mismatched headshots, ghostwritten posts that sound like marketing, and zero video — then decide whether the brand behind them is real. Start with OnBrand : the employee media layer that turns one selfie and a voice memo into brand-locked headshots, written thought leadership, and video for the whole workforce. I ranked eight LinkedIn branding tools on identity media, voice-true content, governance, pricing transparency, and company rollout versus solo-creator fit. OnBrand is first because LinkedIn branding fails when employees do not look or sound like one company. Quick picks **Best overall / employee media for LinkedIn branding:** OnBrand **Best LinkedIn-native publishing and API analytics:** Vulse **Best coordinated thought leadership workspace:** Heyoo **Best executive activation for small leadership teams:** Supergrow Teams Comparison Product Best for Core job Pricing model Rank OnBrand Workforce LinkedIn identity + media Brand-locked headshots, voice-to-content, video $40/credit at volume; custom enterprise 1 Vulse LinkedIn-only publishing

We are accelerating elements of our upcoming v5 release with interim updates to keep pace with the frontier. Index v4.2 has more complex and realistic tasks, and more private test sets to prevent gaming Intelligence Index v4.2 changelog: + AA-Briefcase , our agentic knowledge work evaluation with a private test set + Surge’s GDP.pdf , long context document reasoning across 4,592 PDF pages - GPQA Diamond, an exceptional scientific reasoning evaluation that has now been saturated … plus greater weighting on held-out test sets to prevent gaming, and grading infrastructure upgrades to increase robustness This update brings the Index closer to real-world use cases with more challenging, complex and realistic tasks and private test sets to prevent gaming. We have been planning and building elements of Index v5 for months - it’s been 8 months since we launched Index v4 in January. We have deliberately held back updates to keep the Index stable through recent major model launches. However, with the frontier moving so quickly in the past weeks, we feel it is important to deliver an immediate interim update to ensure our Index remains as relevant and useful as ever to users. Beyond this interim update, our team is

This is GPT-6 Astra.  Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you, fast. GPT-6 Astra is the most intelligent and aligned model in the world, and sets a new state of the art for computer use, browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, science, and professional work. GPT-6 Astra is rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS. To experience Astra at its best, use the ChatGPT desktop app. “Put That There" clip courtesy of MIT Media Laboratory, Chris Schmandt, and Eric Hulteen. https://lnkd.in/ggdCbEmb More from this author Explore content categories

Indian job applicants with an inside connection are nearly 8.5 times more likely to be hired than those without one. Yet 83% of Gen Z professionals in the country hesitate to network with people who could help their careers, according to new LinkedIn research. The contrast points to a divide between recognizing the value of professional relationships and knowing how to build them. While 79% of Indian Gen Z professionals consider such relationships important, 52% do not know how to begin and 53% struggle to turn contacts into meaningful connections. Confidence is one barrier. The survey found that 44% fear being judged, 39% worry about bothering people and 37% are concerned about sounding inauthentic. A lack of guidance may be another. Nearly three in five respondents said nobody had clearly shown them how to develop professional relationships, leaving many uncertain about whom to approach, when to make contact or what to say. That hesitation matters in a labor market where personal connections remain closely associated with opportunity. Nearly 30% of Indian Gen Z respondents said they had found their next role through an online professional community. LinkedIn’s hiring analysis found that applicants in India who already had a first-degree connection

Tiger Woods gets five-year license suspension in plea deal Tiger Woods will have his license suspended for five years after reaching a plea deal related to his impaired-driving case. Woods, who initially pleaded not guilty, will avoid jail time. Send him to jail. Listen. I am not for just locking people up. However, drunk driving, especially with the means to have someone drive you, hint Uber does exist, if you are above Uber, you deserve 'some' jail time. Right? I cannot be the only who thinks having more money to avoid jail time for the same crime other people go to jail for is..., idk. WRONG?!?! To view or add a comment, sign in More from this author Explore content categories

We’re often told LinkedIn is a crucial part of networking when you're on the hunt for a big, exciting tech job, but Apple's new CEO proves it's not mandatory. John Ternus, who succeeded Tim Cook as CEO on Tuesday, has a LinkedIn profile, but it's a pretty spartan affair and doesn't list his current job title. Apple’s internal pages were updated immediately with the personnel change on Sept. 1, but Ternus’ LinkedIn lists him as VP of hardware engineering. That's not even his most recent role at Apple; he was promoted to senior VP in 2021 before landing the CEO gig this year. In total, he's been at Apple for more than 25 years. Ternus' profile also mentions a four-year stint as an engineer at Virtual Research Inc. But that’s it for his career history on LinkedIn, with no mention of his many achievements, including his influence on household-name products like the Apple Watch and AirPods. It also includes an education section, with his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Other than that, and a profile picture, it has one followed interest... Apple. On Sept. 1, Ternus joined X with a simple “hello” post, which, as of

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While working as a bartender, Richard Boccato began experimenting with crystal-clear cocktail ice. When other bartenders started asking if they could buy it, that demand became the foundation for Hundredweight Ice. The company grew from fewer than 10 clients to hundreds through word of mouth, bringing in $2.5 million in 2024. Business Insider correspondent Kathleen Elkins explains how Boccato turned a bartending experiment into a multimillion-dollar business. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eQqmMpaD Like Comment Transcript How did a bartender build a multimillion dollar business selling ice? Richard Picatto was working behind the bar when he started making crystal clear ice for cocktails using chainsaws and clothing irons. Then other bartenders started asking if they could buy it. So he opened 100 Weight Ice, a cocktail ice company in Queens. Today. 100 Weight harvest more than ��3,000,000 of ice a year and cuts around 15,002 inch cubes every day. Some are engraved with custom logos and some. Flowers frozen inside turning New York City tap water into cocktail ice that sells for up to $6 apiece might sound wildly profitable, but producing and delivering it requires expensive equipment. Cutting and engraving machines can cost 10s of thousands of dollars, and each refrigerated delivery