To ensure that she’s hiring the right people, she tells CNBC Make It that she relies on one simple go-to interview question. With this question, Zhuo says she can easily “hear a candidate and how they introspect.” She can also tell from this question if they’re excited to learn and if “they take lessons from what’s happened in the past.” Like Dill, Zhuo says that if a candidate responds with, “I wouldn’t do anything differently,” the she immediately views it as a red flag. Don’t miss: Lyft’s VP

CNBC Make It spoke with career and benefits experts to see what’s in store for workers and job seekers in the new year. Here are the buzziest workplace benefits trends to look out for in 2020. Wolfe says more companies will also expand their efforts to help workers learn about debt consolidation and refinancing options. “Forward-thinking workplace perks, such as personalized, employer-driven financial wellness offerings will help workers manage their pay, savings and improve their financial well

The “One Home Depot” plan “should increase and make operations more efficient going forward,” Gordon said. “You can see that we obviously have a very, very strong uptrend here in Home Depot,” Gordon said, citing the chart. Home Depot opened above the $218 level on Wednesday after overcoming that area of resistance in Tuesday’s trading session. But Gordon was anticipating a push even higher for the stock, possibly back to its early November highs. “We have another resistance [level] to contend wi

Employees agree the most common type of bad boss isn’t one who’s disrespectful or unsupportive — it’s one who doesn’t know how to do their job. The bosses who scored the lowest overall: the ones who failed in “getting the job done,” according to their employees. “Our conclusions are consistent with the idea that a bad boss tends to be someone who lacks sufficient competence,” writes study co-author Amanda Goodall in the Financial Times. Researchers from University of London, Warwick University a

Parents may have a new source of money to tap to help with any expenses tied to adding a new child to the family. The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act passed the House over the summer, but remained stalled in the Senate — until now. Some retirement plans also allow withdrawals when experiencing a financial hardship, but about 15% of 401(k) plans do not. For any other circumstances, you’d need to pay a 10% early withdrawal penalty, plus taxes on the funds you withdrew. An

Grounded Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are seen parked in an aerial photo at Boeing Field in Seattle, WashingtonBoeing’s credit ratings were downgraded on Wednesday by Moody’s Investors Service after the company said it planned to halt production of its beleaguered 737 Max, which remains grounded after two fatal crashes. Boeing on Monday said it would temporarily shut down production of the planes starting in January, less than a week after regulators said they weren’t done with their review. Boeing w

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, voted “present” on both articles of impeachment the chamber passed charging Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. In a statement following her vote, Gabbard said: “I am standing in the center and have decided to vote present.” “I could not in good conscience vote against impeachment because I believe President Trump is guilty of wrongdoing,” she said. Former Vice President Joe Biden said that Trump “abused his power, violated his oath of office, and

A super PAC led by a group of “Never Trump” conservatives has raised over $400,000 since it launched Tuesday. The committee, known as the Lincoln Project, raised the sum from over 5,000 individual donors, with an average contribution of of $77, according to the group’s treasurer, Reed Galen. “We are truly honored by the outpouring of grassroots financial support that The Lincoln Project has received in just its first two days. Galen noted that the organization had a strong day of fundraising Wed

Even though he’s running as a Democratic candidate for president, Andrew Yang certainly has his differences with the party. Yang last week became the final person to qualify for Thursday’s Democratic debate, the last one of the year. During the November debate, Yang ranked last in terms of speaking time among the candidates. So if you have a sugar rush because of an irresponsible tax cut, you shouldn’t be celebrating. Trump championed his $1.5 trillion tax cut that was signed into law in 2017, b

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and John Roberts, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts will play a key role in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate. The 64-year-old George W. Bush appointee will serve as the presiding officer in what will be only the third impeachment trial in U.S. history. The most pressing questions Roberts could face might concern potential prosecution witnesses. The last chief justice to preside over an impeachment trial,

FedEx management must adjust the company to the digital age if it expects to engineer a rebound in the stock, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday. “Stop the predictions, stop the sham guidance, and take the time to figure it all out. Then, and only then, will FedEx stock be able to bottom.” To inject more confidence on Wall Street, FedEx executives should get realistic, Cramer said. Leadership should stop offering guidance if it can’t make an accurate forecast and refrain from mistakenly calling a

CNBC’s Jim Cramer says investors shouldn’t worry about how the impeachment proceedings in Washington, D.C., will impact stocks on Wall Street. The “Mad Money” host explains how the market reacted to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment and how FedEx can recover from its stock woes. Impeachment history suggests Wall Street has nothing to fret aboutJanhvi Bhojwani | CNBCWith the public fixated on impeachment in Congress, Cramer revealed his strategy to make money in stocks as the bull continues to

It may need to clear one critical technical level before it’s ready to resume its move higher, Fairlead Strategies founder Katie Stockton says. It still has positive momentum across time frames and has a potential bullish long-term formation called a cup and handle setting up. A cup and handle technical pattern forms when a stock goes through a slump, then recovers, forming a U-shape and is then followed by a period of consolidation or a “handle.” If we did see Twitter get up into the gap-down t

According to a new report from Bankrate.com, 28% of workers received a raise in 2019. Additionally, 12% of workers got a better paying job; plus, 10% got both a raise and a better paying job in the past 12 months. Overall, 49% of workers earned a pay increase in some form, the highest rate since 2016 and a significant increase from 2018, when only 38% of workers saw any form of a pay increase. About 55% of those making more than $50,000 saw a pay increase this year, while 64% of those earning le

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted Wednesday night to impeach President Donald Trump, making him only the third president to be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors and face a Senate trial that could remove him from office. Following Wednesday’s votes, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham called the impeachment an “unconstitutional travesty.” US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi presides over Resolution 755, Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump as

The Constitution mandates that the Senate will conduct a trial to decide whether to convict Trump and remove him from office. As part of the Senate trial, House Democrats will select so-called impeachment managers to appear before the Senate and share findings from their three-month inquiry into Trump’s Ukraine dealings. House managers have historically been members of Congress, who assume the role of prosecutors in the Senate trial. But she suggested Wednesday night that she will hold off until

Donald Trump is now the third president in U.S. history to be impeached by the House. The historic votes capped a three-month inquiry by House Democrats into Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. After the votes to impeach Trump, House Democrats will select so-called impeachment managers to appear before the Senate during the trial and share findings from their inquiry. Sarah Silbiger | Getty ImagesHouse managers have historically been members of Congress, who assume the role of prosecutors in the Sena

Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden poses for a photo during an interview in an undisclosed location in December 2013 in Moscow, Russia. Barton Gellman | Getty ImagesNewly released “Permanent Record” by Edward Snowden is displayed on a shelf at Books Inc. on September 17, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesO’Grady’s ruling noted that all three agreements Snowden signed required him to protect information and material of which he had knowledge from unauthor

The House of Representatives’ likely impeachment of Donald Trump will boost the president’s standing with voters, GOP strategist Joe Watkins told CNBC on Wednesday. No Republican members are expected to vote to impeach Trump — though Rep. Justin Amash, an independent from Michigan, will likely vote in favor. Amash, an ardent Trump critic and tea party conservative, left the GOP on July 4, at which point he openly supported impeachment. Trump is unlikely to be convicted by two-thirds of the Repub

“In one form or another, every household should have an emergency fund to cover unexpected expenses,” said Stephen Brobeck, a senior fellow at the Consumer Federation of America. Financial planners typically recommend saving three to six months’ worth of monthly expenses in an emergency fund. One strategy to address this hierarchy of financial needs is to build the emergency fund in stages, said Wilson, the financial planner. “You can’t really look at the emergency fund in isolation,” Wilson sai