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Yuri Kovriga
The 4-Day Workweek: My Honest Take as a Founder
As a founder, I am not interested in implementing the latest trend. I am interested in building a resilient, innovative, and humane organization.
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Career Development
The Jobs No One Wants — But Pay $100k+
Every one of these jobs offers a kind of deal with the devil. A Faustian bargain. Give me your peace of…
Career Development
What It’s Like to Work for a Micromanager Boss
What is it like to work for a micromanager? Your own professional world, once a sprawling continent of possibilities, begins to…
Job Seeking
What I Learned Talking to Hundreds of Remote Job Seekers
The search for a remote job is not a search for a different way of working. It is a search for…
Career Development
The Future of Remote Work: Where We’re Heading by 2030
We have to build the technology that connects us, not just isolates us behind more screens. The next decade is going…
Productivity
What 5 Years of Building Jobicy Taught Me About Hiring and Careers
Question the platitudes. Interrogate the assumptions. Be wary of anyone offering a simple, seven-step solution to a complex human problem.
Career Development
The Most “AI-Proof” Careers in the Next 10 Years
The survival strategy isn’t to learn to code faster than an AI (you won’t) or to write better than a machine…
Career Development
Will Web3 Really Create New Jobs or Is It a Scam?
Are we on the cusp of a job creation boom not seen since the dawn of the internet itself, or is…
Pay and Benefits
COBRA Benefits: What Happens to Your Health Insurance After Leaving a Job
If your income is low because you just lost your job, your subsidy could be large. You might find a plan…
Job Seeking
If Job Ads Were Honest: A Translation Guide
We learn to read between the lines. We treat job ads not as statements of fact, but as the opening move…
Job Seeking
5 Small Things That Can Ruin Your Job Application
These little things, they’re not really about the things themselves. They are clues that tell a story about your professionalism, your…
Hiring Process
The One Question You Should Always Ask at the End of an Interview
The interview is the only time you hold any real power. You are a valuable asset they are considering acquiring. Once…
Job Seeking
How to Stay Motivated When You’re Job Hunting for Months
Long-shot jobs? Ambitious titles? Companies I’d never heard of? Apply, apply, apply. It was a way to turn that helpless, angry…
Productivity
The Loneliest Part of Remote Work Nobody Talks About
One of the biggest lies we tell ourselves is that remote work is all about productivity. And yeah, I guess it…
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