The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' federal workforce subcommittee held the first in a series of hearings on workforce management and discipline, with a focus on hiring. "You don't have as many issues with firing and with oversight if you have good hiring," said Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.

Despite his assertion to the contrary, neither President Donald Trump nor the federal government in general will be effective job creators in the coming years, say participants on a Wharton panel titled "The Future of U.S. Labor." They believe the primary forces behind employment are technology and globalization, and that the most important skill workers can possess is the ability to adapt to a rapidly-changing job landscape.

Despite being well-qualified for jobs in the civilian sector, many veterans struggle to transition to civilian life when their military service ends. Social workers can help veterans deal with problems such as disappointment at having to start over with entry-level employment, difficulty converting military skills to the civilian workplace and misplaced employer concerns about post-traumatic stress disorder.

A salary survey has found African-Americans are 50% more likely to be hired for a technology position in New York and San Francisco but then earn about $10,000 less annually compared with other employees. The survey also says Latinos are 26% less likely to be hired and earn $5,000 less than whites, while Asians are 45% less likely to be hired and earn $2,000 less.

Success may rely more on the ability to hold a conversation than on technical training or raw intelligence, writes Skip Prichard. In this interview, he asks Judith Glaser about her work studying conversational intelligence and the three levels of conversation people can achieve.

Leaders should consider choosing an unconventional visual, like a stuffed alien, to prompt people to remember to complete tasks they normally would forget, write Todd Rogers and Katy Milkman. In their recent paper in Psychological Science, they wrote, "The reminders-through-association hack works by linking our intention -- memories that we need to recall in the future -- with a cue that will be waiting for us, right when we need it."