Human curated highlights from last week:

• Speeding up recruitment in the talent marketplace: Careerminds acquires Jobrapido;

• Sticking to the facts works best: Saying ‘please’ or ‘ASAP’ may actually slow work down;

• Putting a smiley face on a tinier workplace: A fundamental rule of the labor market is changing;

• Updating the fable of the cobbler’s son: Google team tells applicants Its HR filters are unreliable;

• Expanding the definition of reverse discrimination: DOJ attacks hiring bias against US workers.

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Careerminds, a global workforce solutions and career technology company, today announced the acquisition of Jobrapido, one of the world’s leading job search and job distribution platforms. The acquisition significantly strengthens Careerminds’ ability to help organizations navigate workforce transformation by combining industry-leading career transition services with one of the world’s largest independent job marketplaces.

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The word “please” included in task requests resulted in deliverables being completed late 38% of the time, a two-year analysis of project management via Slack revealed. Similarly, the Aug. 6 data analysis from Chaser showed that tasks including “ASAP” or ”!!!” were also completed late at a similar rate. Task requests presented in a neutral but direct fashion were completed late only 31% of the time.

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Whenever the U.S. economy loses jobs in a given month, it’s a red flag for the health of the labor market—but that might not be true for much longer. That’s according to a recent analysis by economists at Oxford Economics, who found that because of demographic trends, the unemployment rate could stay stable in the coming years even if employers fail to add jobs or even reduce them.

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Google DeepMind’s AGI Safety and Alignment Team, which seeks to mitigate the risks of advanced AI, is encouraging job candidates for its open roles to fill out a special form alongside their application to eliminate the risk it may be automatically screened out by the company’s internal AI systems, according to a document viewed by Bloomberg, which contained the disclaimer “PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS DOC WIDELY.”

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Department of Justice enforcement moves have put employers looking to sponsor foreign workers on notice that they can land in hot water for discrimination even if they’re in compliance with Labor Department regulations and don’t express explicit bias against US workers. Policing of the recruitment process businesses must navigate before workers can seek green cards emerged as a growing priority at DOJ’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section before President Donald Trump’s second term, attorneys said. But key Trump officials have escalated the enforcement focus on the labor certification known as PERM, increasingly targeting technology and IT services firms for discrimination against Americans.

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