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John Poore
@talentchief.bsky.social
Direct Source advocate guy who talks a lot about jobs, recruiting, AI, general tech, travel, and hockey. Don’t take me too seriously; I don’t.
Sunday vibes…
January 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Mixed job report for the US. 227K jobs added but lower than expected retail rebound and flat wage growth. I’ve personally seen some encouraging trend in the automotive, health care, and FinTech spaces. What are you anticipating for the US job market in the new year? www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
Jobs Report Live Updates: U.S. Adds 227,000 Jobs in November
The labor market added 227,000 jobs, a big rebound from October, when storms in the Southeast and a major strike disrupted work. The unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 4.2 percent.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Overtime exemption salary increases blocked federally. States may choose to apply their own minimums & duty requirements. Increasing salary minimums are good for worker pay but drive up employer costs. natlawreview.com/article/texa...

How will states balance attract new bus & be worker friendly?
Texas Court Strikes Down Federal Overtime Rule (Again)
natlawreview.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:11 PM
November 29, 2024 at 2:51 PM
I’m using #AnythingLLM to access the #llama2 - uncensored locally hosted #LLM in combination with designated URLs of landing pages for forum websites. The citations toqueries leads me to believe the entire forum is being scraped to provide a response. Anyone know if that’s how the model works?
November 29, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Grace would wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving but she’s busy practicing her tryptophan coma a little early today. #thanksgiving #cats #sleep
November 28, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Cold, rainy evenings were made for peaty Scotch whisky and basketball. #laphroaig #warriors
November 26, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Will huge increases in the cost of H1-B visa applications, uncertainty in the tech job market, and longer waiting time for green cards prevent some of the world’s brightest talent from considering the US as a destination? How will US companies be affected? #jobs #immigration #tech
November 24, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Looking at Llamafile as an option to build a local RAG on a lower power device like a Raspberry Pi. Does anyone have personal experience/examples using Llamafile? #AI #llamafile #llm #raspberrypi
November 20, 2024 at 7:08 PM
If you want to see how AI is shaping the technology job market just look at the growth of information architecture, taxonomy, data labeling, and ontology jobs. Some predict as much as 23% growth in information architect categories over the next seven years. #data #ai #jobs
November 20, 2024 at 3:08 AM