Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It.

In an escalating cat-and-mouse game, job hunters are trying to fool A.I. into moving their applications to the top of the pile with embedded instructions.

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Jobs Report Withheld by Shutdown Leaves Economists Guessing

Policymakers will enter uncharted territory without employment data that the government is expected to withhold because of its shutdown.

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Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.

As the industry embraces A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.

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Trump’s $100,000 Visa Fee Puts Many Tech Start-Ups in a Bind

Silicon Valley start-ups said they were concerned they would be disproportionately hurt by the new visa fee for skilled foreign workers, given their limited resources.

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India Reels From Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee

The H-1B visa lured a generation of Indian professionals to take part in the American dream. A $100,000 fee has forced a rethink of the route.

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Do You Want a New Job, or Just Some External Validation?

Plus, how to gently tell your boss you have a better way of doing things.

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4 Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into the J-1 Visa Program

Some American companies have used the cultural exchange program as a supply of cheap, exploitable labor, records and interviews show.

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Newark Airport Crisis Has Eased but Tech and Staffing Issues Persist

United Airlines said it had a very good summer at Newark airport. But air traffic control equipment issues and staffing shortages remained unresolved.

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The Long-Term Unemployed Today? College Grads.

For years, only a small portion of the people experiencing long spells of joblessness were college graduates. That’s starting to change.

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Job Growth Revised Down by Nearly a Million, Updated BLS Data Shows

Preliminary annual revisions could add to political pressure on the agency that produces the data.

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