Business Insider is hiring an associate editor to work with our team of freelance writers. 

As an associate editor, you will edit freelance posts for spelling and grammar, structure, flow, style and factual accuracy. You will work on posts about topics from across the site, including personal essays, reported stories, slideshows, quick news hits, and longer features. 

The ideal candidate has 1-3 years of editorial experience and should be familiar with editing others' work. They should be able to get article drafts into publishable form quickly and efficiently, and should be interested in working on content from all BI verticals. 

Candidates should have substantial fact-checking experience, strong copy editing skills, and a keen eye for the structure and flow of a story. 

The position is full-time in our New York City headquarters. Business Insider offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits.

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• Some of the most dangerous jobs have a much higher risk of fatal or non-fatal injuries than others.
• Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we found the 34 jobs that had the highest rates of fatal injuries in 2016.

Some jobs have a much higher risk of fatal or non-fatal injuries than others.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics documented how many people died on the job in 2016 for the equivalent of every 100,000 people who held that job.

To find the most dangerous jobs in America, we identified the jobs from the Bureau's list with the highest fatal injury rate. Each of these jobs has a fatal injury rate above the national average for all workers of 3.6 per 100,000 full-time workers.

Overall, the greatest number of fatal work injuries resulted from transportation incidents, followed by violence or other injuries by persons or animals; falls, slips, and trips; and contact with objects and equipment.

Here are the 34 most dangerous jobs in America, along with their 2016 fatal and non-fatal injury rates per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers, and a description of what workers in these jobs do from the Department of Labor's O*NET careers database.

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34. Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters

What they do: Lay out, install, or maintain pipes, plumbing, and sewer systems.

Fatal injury rate (per 100,000 workers):  4.1

Non-fatal injury rate (per 100,000 workers):  1,629

33. Hand laborers and freight, stock, and material movers

What they do: Manually move freight, stock, or other materials or perform other general labor.

Fatal injury rate (per 100,000 workers): 5.2

Non-fatal injury rate (per 100,000 workers): 3,068

31 (tie). Firefighters

What they do: Control and extinguish fires or respond to emergency situations where life, property, or the environment is at risk.

Fatal injury rate (per 100,000 workers): 6.1

Non-fatal injury rate (per 100,000 workers): 927

Business Insider is looking for a paid tech intern for its New York office.

Our tech section covers everything from the hottest startups to big tech personalities to the latest smartphone launches. We need someone who is as enthusiastic about social media as they are about staying on top of the latest product launches and what people in the tech scene are buzzing about.

We want someone who is curious about how certain companies and gadgets dominate our lives while others crumble into dust.

We're looking for the following:

• Excellent writing skills
• Someone who is psyched to work with text, photos, video, graphics, and audio — often all in the same story
• A basic knowledge of the tech industry. An interest in tech product reviews is a plus
• Someone with good time-management skills who thrives in the fast-paced environment of a newsroom
• As an intern at Business Insider, there's no getting coffee, filing, or making copies

Our interns are an integral part of our team. Many of our current writers and editors started as interns.

BI interns spend their time doing meaningful work: researching, writing, producing, and promoting features and stories — even breaking news if the timing's right. 

This internship is based in our New York headquarters and runs for six months. Interns are expected to work 40 hours a week.

APPLY HEREwith a resume and cover letter if this sounds like your dream internship, and specify why you're interested in working on tech. 

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Business Insider is hiring a copyeditor to cover the evening shift Monday through Friday.

This person will work in Business Insider's New York City headquarters, editing copy on-screen for grammar, punctuation, spelling, sense, and Business Insider style.

We're looking for someone who can work quickly and independently, usually without the luxury of querying reporters and other editors.

Attention to detail is necessary but so is speed.

Requirements:

• Two years of professional copyediting experience, preferably at a news website.
• Familiarity with AP style, content-management systems, and social media.
• Team player with a positive attitude and a sense of humor.
• Pass a two-part written editing test.

Candidates who do not have at least two years of professional copyediting experience will not be considered.

This position is full-time in our New York City headquarters. Business Insider offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits.

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• Psychopaths can use their knowledge of emotions to manipulate people.
• They do so with little or no concern for others. 
• The only way to protect yourself is to sharpen your own emotional intelligence.

For most of us, the term "psychopath" evokes images of serial killers or mass murderers. But the complex disorder known as psychopathy — which is traditionally characterized by a list of traits including antisocial behavior, arrogance, deceitfulness, and a lack of emotional empathy — is actually more common than most people think.

This list of traits may sound like the complete opposite of what you normally think of when you hear the term "emotional intelligence"— the ability to identify, understand, and manage emotions. We generally think of emotionally intelligent persons as kind and helpful.

But a number of psychologists have also highlighted the "dark side" of emotional intelligence: how a person could use their knowledge of emotions to strategically achieve self-serving goals, with little or no concern for others.

So, this raises a question: Is there such thing as an emotionally intelligent psychopath?

How psychopaths use EQ to manipulate

A criminal psychologist, Professor Robert Hare spent most of his life studying psychopaths and learning what makes them tick. (Hare is the creator of the PCL-R, the assessment most commonly used to identify psychopathic traits in an individual.) In an interview with the Telegraph, Hare described psychopathy as "dimensional," suggesting that many psychopaths tend to blend in.

"There are people who are part-way up the scale, high enough to warrant an assessment for psychopathy, but not high enough up to cause problems. Often they're our friends, they're fun to be around. They might take advantage of us now and then, but usually it's subtle and they're able to talk their way around it."

Note psychopath's ability to "talk their way around" their tendency to take advantage of others. Intellectually, we may identify what they're doing...we may even call them out for it. But these persons play on our emotions to get us to dismiss their behavior.

Research supports these conclusions — that some individuals are highly skilled at using the ability of emotional influence for selfish gain.

For example, consider one particularly fascinating experiment by Dr. Christian Keysers, Professor of Social Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam.

In one study, Keysers and his team analyzed the brain activity of 21 convicted violent psychopathic offenders, comparing the results with 26 men of similar age and IQ. The participants were shown movies of people hurting each other while brain activity was measured. Later, a doctoral student would slap the patients on their hands to localize brain regions connected with feeling touch and pain. The goal was to see if patients' brains activated a feeling of pain in their own brain when viewing the pain of others.

The result?

"The vicarious activation of motor, somatosensory and emotional brain regions was much lower in the patients with psychopathy than in the normal subjects,"writes Keysers. "The theory seemed right: their empathy was reduced, and this could explain why they committed such terrible crimes without feeling guilt."

But one question still plagued Keysers.

How could these same individuals prove to be so charming at times?

"I remember chatting with one of the patients...a particularly severe psychopath (he had scored the full 40 points on the psychopathy checklist)," writes Keysers. "Surrounded by the guards, he seemed a most pleasant person. He was smiling, engaging, and seemed to feel exactly what we wanted from him."

So Keysers and his partner decided to let the patients watch the movies again, this time asking them to try and empathize with the victims in the movies.

"What we found was that this simple instruction sufficed to boost the empathic activation in their brain to a level that was hard to distinguish from that of the healthy controls," writes Keysers. "Suddenly, the psychopaths seemed as empathic as the next guy. Their empathy was switched on."

Keysers' conclusion:

"Psychopathic individuals do not simply lack empathy. Instead, it seems as though for most of us, empathy is the default mode. If we see a victim, we share her pain. For the psychopathic criminals of our study, empathy seemed to be a voluntary activity. If they want to, they can empathize, and that explains how they can be so charming, and maybe so manipulative. Once they have seduced you into doing what serves their purpose, the effortful empathy would probably disappear again."

Protect yourself

So, we might ask: How can you deal effectively with a psychopath's emotional intelligence?

Simply put, by sharpening your own.

For example, your capacity to accurately perceive others' abilities to manage emotions can serve as a self-defense mechanism — a type of "emotional alarm system" that alerts you to the fact that someone is attempting to manipulate your feelings, to get you to act in a way that is not in your best interests or that conflicts with your values and principles.

My goal isn't to encourage undue suspicion — not everyone who tries to persuade you is a psychopath.

But be cautious — and even skeptical — when necessary. When you discover that someone has the ability to evoke strong emotions in you, strive to remain balanced with respect to your own words and actions. Once your own feelings have calmed down, revisit the "what" and the "why": What words or actions sparked your emotions? Why did they do so? What are the influencer's true motives and desires?

By gaining greater control over your thoughts and actions, you can protect yourself from your own feelings — even if a skilled manipulator works hard to exploit you.

This article is an adapted excerpt from my new book, "EQ Applied: The Real-World Guide to Emotional Intelligence."

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• Weebly CEO David Rusenko recently sold his company to Square for $365 million.
• Now Rusenko is offering advice to other entrepreneurs: Take fewer risks.
• Rusenko says entrepreneurs aren't so much risk-takers as they are eternal optimists. 

"I think I am demonstrably not a risk taker," says David Rusenko, the CEO of the website-software company Weebly. "Anyone who has worked with me would back me up on that."

Rusenko, who sold his company to Square earlier this year for $365 million, says there's one enduring mythology about entrepreneurs that he'd like to set straight: Entrepreneurs, it's largely held, are risk-takers.

But according to Rusenko, this is a mischaracterization that's not only inaccurate, but damaging.

"Taking risks is important," Rusenko said, "but people's conception of entrepreneurship as this inappropriate, cavalier risk-taking is draining."

Rusenko cautions that entrepreneurs should take as few risks as possible. He speaks from experience — he's spent more than 10 years working on his San Francisco-based company, and along the way there's been plenty of ups and downs. For Rusenko, being a successful entrepreneur is less about hair-trigger decision-making and more about diligence, persistence, and patience.

"I take as few risks as possible," Rusenko said. "It's more about having conviction in what you're doing. It's about seeing a need in the marketing and going out and building it. People along the way will tell you that it won't work, that it won't be successful, that the market doesn't need this. If you have the evidence, you have to continue to believe in your company."

Entrepreneurs aren't so much risk-takers as they are eternal optimists, Rusenko said.

"Entrepreneurs don't see risks where other people see risks," he said. "They're optimists."

Of course, there's some risk-taking involved, but less than you might think. Appropriate risks are calculated risks, Rusenko says.

"The risks are principled," Rusenko said. "But it's more about the optimism to believe that what you're doing is going to work."

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• Weebly CEO David Rusenko sold his company to Square earlier this year for $365 million.
• The journey leading up to the sale wasn't always so easy. Rusenko recalls a moment of doubt he had early on when he revealed Weebly's product for the first time and was told it was a terrible idea.
• Now, he reflects on his top piece of advice for budding entrepreneurs. 

When David Rusenko, founder of website building platform Weebly, debuted his product for the very first time before a crowd of nearly 1,000 people in 2006, he was met with a remarkably unfavorable response.

At an an early tech gathering led by a prominent tech CEO in New York, Rusenko was one among a number of early-stage entrepreneurs to deliver a five-minute business pitch before the group of tech enthusiasts.

Rusenko leaned into the mic and described his plan to build an online platform that made it easy for anyone to create their own professional website. 

"After we finished our demo, [the tech CEO leading the meeting] grabbed the mic and said it was the worst idea he ever heard of," said Rusenko.

"He said that no one needed to make a website and anyone who needed to would be able to figure it out on their own."

For Rusenko, the moment was unforgettable.

"It was humiliating," he said.

It was also confusing.

"We didn't know if he was wrong," said Rusenko. "But it was obvious to us that people didn't know how to build websites. It just seemed self-evident that building a website could be made easier."

Despite this initial rejection, Rusenko, along with his co-founders Chris Fanini and Dan Veltri, buckled down on their idea.

From his experience designing websites for his friends and colleagues, Rusenko believed that Weebly was a product that would be successful, and perhaps also necessary for small business owners to use for their companies.

Turns out, he wasn't wrong. 

In just over 10 years, Weebly grew from a lean, three-person startup to a multi-million dollar business with hundreds of employees. Their flagship product, a platform that makes it easy to build professional websites, has been a tool that's regularly used by business owners, marketers, and freelancers alike.

And, in late April this year, it was announced that Weebly had a bidder: Square was interested in purchasing Rusenko's company for $365 million.

Now, with the acquisition behind him, Rusenko has spent some time thinking back on that moment of doubt 12 years ago, when he was told that his idea didn't stand a chance.

In retrospect, he says there's one piece of advice he has to offer other up-and-coming entrepreneurs who might have moments of hesitation. 

The one surefire way to kill your company completely, says Rusenko, is if you give up on it.

"Entrepreneurs just keep on going," said Rusenko. 'They don't give up. They don't stop. The only way your company fails is if you stop working on it."

For Rusenko, being an entrepreneur is mostly about persistence.

"It's all about waking up and taking one step forward and before you know if, you've walked a marathon," he said. "To a lot of people from the outside, it might look like an overnight success, or that you've leapt from zero to one if a company has a big product release or raises a big round."

This is seldom the case, he said. Being an entrepreneur is seldom about the big wins, and more often tied to diligence, hard work, and recommitting yourself to an idea — even when that idea is derided onstage before a crowd of a 1,000 people. 

"There's nothing magical about a seven-year journey," said Rusenko, referring to the number of years that many entrepreneurs believe to be the amount of time it takes for a company to prove successful. "You’ve just got to keep going for that seven years."

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• Sick leave has steadily decreased in the UK, but more people are now taking days off for their mental health.
• It suggests companies are more open-minded about the fact employees suffer with their mental health sometimes.
• Experts say there are steps to take if you want to approach your manager about taking a mental health day off.
• How much you reveal is completely up to you, and depends on your company culture — some aren't as progressive as others.

The world is moving towards mental health gaining the recognition it deserves. About one in six people in the past week have experienced a common mental health problem, according to the Mental Health Foundation, such as depression or anxiety. Overall, mental health problems are one of the main causes of disease burden worldwide.

There are now days and weeks devoted to mental health, and there is more research than ever going into figuring out, for example, why PhD students are at a particularly high risk of mental health problems, and why the lives of millennials could be more plagued by mental health issues than their parents — not least because of the impact of social media.

According to a new report from the Office of National Statistics, more people are taking mental health days off work than they did in 2009. The proportion of younger workers aged 25 to 34 attributing their sickness absence to mental health conditions has risen from 7.2% in 2009 to 9.6% in 2017 — an increase of 2.4%.

Women are also more likely than men to say they were absent because of their mental heath, according to the data. About 8% of women cited mental health compared to 5.7% of men.

"Sickness absence for mental health reasons could be higher for women because men are less likely to seek medical help for mental health problems than women and also because medical professionals are more likely to diagnose women with mental health conditions than men," the report reads.

Overall, work days lost to sickness were at their lowest on record in 2017. That suggests a higher proportion of sick days are being devoted to mental health, and that people are becoming more comfortable with being open about needing to tend to their state of mind.

Last year, a CEO of a company was praised on Twitter for how he responded to one of his employees taking two days off for her mental health.

"I just wanted to personally thank you for sending emails like this," he wrote in an email that was widely circulated via the employee's tweet.

"Every time you do, I use it as a reminder of the importance of using sick days for mental health — I can't believe this is not standard practice at all organisations. You are an example to us all, and help cut through the stigma so we can bring our whole selves to work."

Clinical social worker and psychotherapist Amy Morin explains in a blog post for Psychology Today how mental health should be treated like physical health. She said there are three situations where taking a mental health day is called for: when you're distracted by something, when you've been neglecting yourself, and when you need to attend mental health care appointments.

"If you had a cold, you might decide to power through your workday," she wrote. "But if you had the flu, you'd likely need to stay home and rest — and no one would call you 'weak' for getting the flu. In fact, your co-workers would likely thank you for not coming into the office when you're sick."

Some people feel their bosses might not believe them, but psychologist Perpetua Neo told Business Insider this is an assumption we have to shake.

"You don't ask a person to prove cancer," she said. "You don't ask a person to show their blood tests — you believe them."

Since some companies are more progressive than others, it might seem difficult to know how to approach asking for a mental health day off — especially if you've never done it before. A post on Bustle outlined the steps to take if you want to approach your manager for a mental health day off.

1. Work out the company culture.

"It is vital to assess if your company and work culture is open to the idea of mental health days," Julieann Ipsan, a therapist at the Frederick Psychology Center told Bustle. "If asking and explaining details will ultimately create more stress, it's better to take a sick day with no explanation of the mental health needs."

If it's a case of one of two days to recharge, you might not need to disclose anything other than the fact you don't feel up to work, and you'll be back as soon as possible. But if it's a longer term issue, you might want to open a dialogue with your manager about why you're likely to struggle sometimes.

2. Be clear about why you need the time off

You should then work out why you need the time off, whether it's exhaustion, grief, anxiety, or family issues. It's up to you how much information you divulge, so don't feel pressured into spilling your whole life story.

But if you feel comfortable and trust your manager, you can use it as an opportunity to be transparent with them, so they can understand the burden of your mental health issues a bit better. It may also help with other employees going through similar situations in the future.

3. Explain how it's beneficial to both you and the company

"In an effort to open up dialogue about mental health in the workplace, if an employee feels comfortable with their supervisor, they [can] frame the request for a mental health day in terms of a 'win/win' for the employee and employer," Jesse Viner, the CMO of mental health services provider Yellowbrick, told Bustle.

For example, you can say how the boost in wellness gained from taking a couple of days off can lead to increased productivity and concentration the rest of the week.

That way, you're looking after yourself, but you're also helping to break down the barriers and put an end the stigma of mental health in the workplace, too.

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Business Insider is looking for a tech intern for its San Francisco office.

Our tech section covers everything from the hottest startups to big tech personalities to Apple earnings. We need someone who is as enthusiastic about social media as they are about staying on top of the latest product launches and what people in the tech scene are buzzing about.

We want someone who is curious about how certain companies dominate our lives while others crumble into dust.

We're looking for the following:

• Excellent writing skills.
• Someone who is psyched to work with text, photos, video, graphics, and audio — often all in the same story.
• A basic knowledge of the tech industry.
• Someone with good time-management skills who thrives in the fast-paced environment of a newsroom.

As an intern at Business Insider, there's no getting coffee, filing, or making copies.

Our interns are an integral part of our team. Many of our current writers and editors started as interns.

BI Interns spend their time doing meaningful work: researching, writing, producing, and promoting features and stories — even breaking news if the timing's right.

This internship is paid and runs for six months. Interns are encouraged to work full-time (40 hours a week).

APPLY HEREwith a resume and cover letter if this sounds like your dream internship, and specify why you're interested in working on tech. 

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INSIDER is looking for an associate editor to cover lifestyle from our New York office. 

The ideal candidate is an experienced and enthusiastic writer and editor who can edit stories ranging from long slideshows on food, travel, and celebrities, to quick posts on optical illusions, pets, and entertainment.

Expect to edit anything from what celebrities look like without makeup to optical illusions that stumped the internet to the rudest cities in America.

The right candidate is not only quick and efficient; they will also add value to long-form pieces, reframe stories if need be, and correct grammar and spelling errors, no matter how small.

This person will:

• Pitch, develop, and edit stories about all things lifestyle.
• Assist the Senior Editor in coordinating coverage.
• Assist with managing and editing three full-time staff in the absence of the Senior Editor.

The best candidates will show the following:

• A journalism background.
• Excellent writing skills and strong writing samples.
• Experience editing in a newsroom setting.
• A passion for and familiarity with a range of lifestyle subjects, including celebrities and entertainment; optical illusions, brain teasers and Photoshop scandals; health and fitness; food; travel; relationships and general wellness; and more.
• The ability to be creative and package stories in exciting ways.
• A desire to work as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.

Photoshop skills and a solid grasp of SEO are a plus.

The position is full-time in our New York City headquarters. INSIDER offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits.

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INSIDER is looking for a paid editorial intern to cover lifestyle from our New York office. 

The ideal candidate is a clear writer who is obsessed with all things related to lifestyle, including food, travel, celebrities, entertainment, health, and more.

This person is a strong and versatile writer who will specialize in general interest slideshows and visual features. Expect to write about everything from what celebrities look like without makeup to optical illusions that stumped the internet to the rudest cities in America. Writers are also encouraged to try new things, like eating like a celebrity or tasting different types of wine, and write about it.

This job offers an opportunity to someone who loves to tell stories in a fun and visual way.

We're looking for the following:

• Excellent writing skills.

• Passion for and familiarity with a range of lifestyle subjects, including celebrities and entertainment; optical illusions, brain teasers and Photoshop scandals; health and fitness; food; travel; relationships and general wellness; and more.

• Ability to be creative and package stories in exciting ways, and work at a fast pace.

• A journalism background.

Our interns are an integral part of our team. We seek out self-starters and people who are enthusiastic about collaborating with reporters, producers, social media editors, and other team members.

Internships run for six months out of our New York office, and interns work 40 hours per week. 

If this sounds like your dream job, APPLY HERE with a cover letter and resume. 

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INSIDER is hiring a lifestyle reporter for its website.

The ideal candidate is a clear writer who is obsessed with all things related to lifestyle, including food, travel, celebrities, entertainment, health, and more.

This person is a strong and versatile writer who will specialize in general interest slideshows and visual features. Expect to write about everything from what celebrities look like without makeup to optical illusions that stumped the internet to the rudest cities in America or even cute dog illustrations. Writers are also encouraged to try new things like eating like a celebrity or tasting different types of wine, and write about it.

From quick posts and viral news to longer, more in-depth, research-based slideshows, we want someone with a knack for innovative story ideas and unique angles. This job offers an opportunity to someone who loves to tell stories in a fun and visual way.

The ideal candidate will have: 

• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• One to three years of full-time writing experience in a fast-paced work environment.
• An obsession with all things lifestyle.
• A strong sense of what makes a great story and tons of great ideas.
• A journalism degree and/or background.
• An understanding of SEO, copy-editing skills, and Photoshop experience are also a plus.

The position is full-time in our New York City headquarters. INSIDER offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits.

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Business Insider is hiring a paid editorial intern to work with our sports team. 

The ideal candidate is someone who cares about sports, loves telling smart, compelling stories, and has a knack for finding original angles on the biggest stories in the sporting world.

Responsibilities will include spotting and covering important sports stories as they unfold, collaborating with the team on coverage and working on photo slideshows.

Qualifications include:

• A background in journalism or other writing
• Some copyediting skills 
• Light HTML and Photoshop experience
• Knowledge of and interest in social media

Our interns are an integral part of our team, and many of our current writers and editors started as interns. We seek out self-starters and people who are enthusiastic about collaborating with other reporters, video producers, social media editors, and other team members.

APPLY HERE with your resume and cover letter explaining why this would be your dream job, as well as links to select clips.

This is a full-time, paid internship position at our New York City headquarters. Interns are expected to work 40 hours a week, and the program runs for six months.

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• As part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, public companies have to report how much the median worker makes.
• Looking at Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, here is a list of 15 companies where half of the employees make at least six figures.
• Almost all of these companies are hiring now.

A six-figure salary may sound like it's reserved for the C-suite, but at certain companies, it's the standard for most employees.

As part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, public companies have to report the pay ratio between their median employee and CEO, which means you can now find out how much the median worker makes.

Looking at Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, Money.com recently compiled a list of 15 companies where half of the employees make at least six figures. And some of the companies on their list may surprise you (check out No. 14).

Looking for a high-paying job? Click through the full list below to see which companies are hiring now.

Companies that pay employees well:

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1. Tesaro

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Headquarters: Waltham, Massachusetts

Median pay: $344,329

2. Splunk

Headquarters: San Francisco

Median pay: $256,370

3. Alphabet (Google)

Headquarters: Mountain View, California

Median pay: $197,274

It's not impossible to land your dream job at one of the nation's biggest tech companies — but be prepared for a long and rigorous process.

To gain insight into the interview experience at some of tech's most important companies, the career-data site Comparably surveyed 6,463 current employees at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

Comparably found that the process varies considerably from company to company. At Apple, candidates should "expect to be turned away a few times" and know that it might take "a few years" to land a job, while at Facebook, engineers can show up for an interview in "whatever is most comfortable," including a T-shirt and jeans.

Here's how current employees rated the interview process at five of the biggest tech companies in the world.

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Employees rated Apple and Microsoft as having the best interview processes overall.

Employees gave Apple and Microsoft the highest ratings when it comes to the overall interview process.

Apple— 90 out of 100

Microsoft— 90 out of 100

Google— 88 out of 100

Amazon— 87 out of 100

Facebook— 83 out of 100

Google employees said their interview process was "difficult."

Most Google employees surveyed found the interview process to be difficult or very difficult. In contrast, 30% of Amazon employees described the process as easy or very easy.

Amazon

Very difficult — 17%

Difficult — 24%

Average — 29%

Easy — 17%

Very easy — 13%

Apple

Very difficult — 12%

Difficult — 36%

Average — 32%

Easy — 12%

Very easy — 8%

Facebook

Very difficult — 16%

Difficult — 26%

Average — 37%

Easy — 5%

Very easy — 16%

Google

Very difficult — 19%

Difficult — 30%

Average — 25%

Easy — 18%

Very easy — 8%

Microsoft

Very difficult — 11%

Difficult — 36%

Average — 48%

Easy — 5%

Very easy — 0%

Many employees ended up getting the job after simply applying online.

Overall, most current employees at the companies said they landed a job interview by applying online, except at Google and Microsoft. And Facebook, for example, had the highest percentage among the companies of employees who said they got an interview by networking.

Amazon

Applied online — 39%

Referral — 14%

Recruiter — 32%

Other — 12%

Networking — 3%

Apple

Applied online — 34%

Referral — 29%

Recruiter — 10%

Other — 17%

Networking — 10%

Facebook

Applied online — 29%

Referral — 24%

Recruiter — 19%

Other — 9%

Networking — 19%

Google

Applied online — 23%

Referral — 18%

Recruiter — 39%

Other — 11%

Networking — 9%

Microsoft

Applied online — 17%

Referral — 26%

Recruiter — 30%

Other — 13%

Networking — 14%

It seems like Salesforce CEO and founder Marc Benioff never leaves the spotlight.

Between Salesforce's annual Dreamforce mega-conference in San Francisco, his philanthropy, and his willingness to take political stands, it seems like he's always in the spotlight — even if, sometimes, it's because he's facing protests over Salesforce's work with the United States Customs and Border Patrol.

Salesforce itself is in a good position: Under Benioff's leadership, the company has swelled to a $106 billion market cap, even as it hit $10 billion in annual revenue for the 2018 fiscal year. It's gone from an upstart Oracle rival to a cloud computing behemoth in its own right. And on Tuesday, Salesforce named former Oracle exec Keith Block as Benioff's co-CEO, giving Benioff some backup in the highest echelons of the company.

Here's how Benioff, with an estimated net worth of $6.3 billion, worked his way up to the national stage from humble origins.

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Marc Russell Benioff was born in San Francisco on September 25th, 1964, the son of Joelle and Russell Benioff. Benioff is something of an anomaly among Silicon Valley CEOs — he was actually born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.

His father, Russell Benioff, owned a local department store in San Francisco. "I learned my work ethic from him," Benioff once said.

While in high school, Benioff sold his first app — software called "How To Juggle" for the TRS-80 Model 1 computer — to a computer magazine for $75.

• Teachers, like anyone else, know that hindsight is 20/20.
• Business Insider asked teachers for the one thing they wish they knew before becoming a teacher, and more than 50 replied.
• Some of the most interesting responses are included below.

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There are quite a few steps you need to take before you become a teacher. 

To become an elementary school teacher in a public school, for example, you not only need to hold a bachelor's degree, but you also need to prove you have the skills necessary to teach elementary education and have a certain number of hours of supervised educational experience under your belt.

All this job training can only take you so far, however, and inevitably you enter the teaching world not entirely prepared for what's ahead.

To help prevent aspiring teachers from getting caught by surprise, we asked teachers everywhere for one thing they wish they knew before becoming a teacher, and more than 50 teachers responded.

We've anonymously included some of their answers here: 

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Politics play a huge role.

"I wish I knew how political education was. I don't think I was prepared for that."

The job is so rewarding.

"I never expected to love teaching as much as I do."

Your days rarely end when the bell rings.

"The paperwork never stops, and it's not just grading, which would be fine — it's the district and state mandated paperwork on top of everything else."

"There is a ton of paperwork, and the job is 24/7. During the school year it is very hard to find a balance between being super teacher and finding time to be one's own person."

• The highest-paid public employee in most states is a college football or basketball coach, according to a new report from ESPN.
• The University of Kentucky's John Calipari is the highest-paid basketball coach — but his salary pales in comparison to football coaches for public colleges.
• The salaries for the highest-paid public worker in every state range from $246,000 to $11 million.

The highest-paid public employee in your state is probably a college football or basketball coach.

ESPN published a report on the highest-paid public employee, which is someone paid by a state, county, or city institution. College athletic coaches dominated the list, often earning many times the salary of the state governor, probably the highest-profile public job.

Eight basketball coaches and 31 football coaches made the list, representing 39 out of 50 states.

Anyone who is not paid by the state — like coaches for private colleges — were excluded from the list, since salary data for a private employee is hard to come by. That means Duke basketball coach Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski and Stanford football coach David Shaw — the highest-earning college coaches in North Carolina and California, respectively — don't appear on ESPN's list.

The salaries for the highest-paid public worker in every state range from $246,000 — more than $50,000 above the highest salary for any governor— to $11 million. ESPN points out that nine of the coaches who were the highest-paid in their state in 2017 no longer hold the same job.

Of the 11 non-coaches who were the highest-paid public employee in their state, eight work in education and two are physician (several work at medical schools). Only one woman made the list: Mary D. Nettleman, a medical school dean.

See who the highest-paid public employee of 2017 was in your state and how much they made. For comparison, we included the governor's salary and the median household income in each state via ESPN.

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DELAWARE: Mark Holodick, $246,000 salary in 2017

Job: Brandywine School District superintendent

Governor salary: $171,000

Median household income: $61,017

MAINE: James H. Page, $277,500 salary in 2017

Job: Chancellor of University of Maine system

Governor salary: $70,000

Median household income: $50,826

MONTANA: Clay Christian, $309,000 salary in 2017

Job: Higher Education Commissioner

Governor salary: $108,167

Median household income: $48,380

INSIDER is hiring a paid editorial intern to write about wellness.

Interns on the wellness team contribute to stories like “Sex before bed might be the key to a good night's sleep — but there's a catch,” “6 things that happen to your body if you're on the keto diet,” and “9 subtle signs you might have cancer — answered,” researching, writing and producing content every day on all areas of health, relationships, and sex. Interns are an integral part of our team, and collaborate with reporters, producers, social media editors and other people across the newsroom.

We’re looking for an intern with the following:

• Excellent writing skills
• Experience researching and interviewing
• A passion for storytelling
• Interest in reporting on all areas of health, relationships, and sex
• Familiarity with digital and social media
• Ability to work at a fast pace

Experience writing for a news site helps, as do copyediting skills and light HTML and Photoshop experience. You should be a voracious news reader who is eager to learn the ins and outs of a digital newsroom.

This is a paid internship based out of our New York office. Interns are encouraged to work 40 hours a week, and internships run for six months.

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• Christi Shaw oversees Lilly Bio-Medicines, the business within the pharma giant that comprises neuroscience and immunology.
• A longtime pharma veteran, Shaw is one of the top female executives in the industry and has held senior positions at Novartis and at Johnson & Johnson.
• She told Business Insider that the career advice she wished she'd gotten early in her career would be "to not let failure go to your heart."

It's rare to find women in top executive positions within the pharmaceutical industry.

Women make up about 21% of the executive positions at Fortune 500 healthcare companies, according to Rock Health. At the CEO level, GSK CEO Emma Walmsley made headlines just last year for becoming the first female CEO of a global pharmaceutical company.

This makes Christi Shaw a bit of an anomaly. Shaw is the president of Lilly Bio-Medicines, the business within the pharma giant that comprises neuroscience and immunology. Before taking time off in mid-2016 to care for a sister who had cancer, she was the president and US country head of Novartis, and she held executive positions at Johnson & Johnson before that.

Shaw returned to pharma after her time off in April of last year, rejoining Lilly where she started her career almost 30 years ago.

"I just felt like I could impact so many more people in big pharma than I could working for a smaller company or even working part time," Shaw told Business Insider. Lilly Bio-Sciences plans to launch four new medications treating 10 disease areas over the next decade, including treatments for migraines and forms of chronic pain.

Looking back on her career, Shaw says there are a few pieces of advice she wishes she had when starting out.

"You always heard the term, 'Don't let success go to your head,' but the second piece of that is to not let failure go to your heart," Shaw said. Women in particular have a fear of failing, she said, not just in the workplace but also at home.

Along those lines, Shaw said she'd give others career advice about the power of risk-taking.

"Leadership isn't knowing the direction — it's about being able to make a decision when the direction is uncertain," Shaw said.

"I would tell myself: 'Don't be so worried, because if you don't have a job or you have to take time off or you can't make that meeting because of a personal thing, just do it. What's the worst that could happen? You're going to get fired. What if you get fired? You're going to get a new job or you take the time off,'" she said. "I wish someone would've said to me, 'Go ahead and take the risk and do what you think is right versus what you think other people think is the right thing to do.'"

For example, after Shaw's sister died in May, she took two additional weeks off and a vacation with her family rather that go back to work.

"It was the most cathartic thing I could have done versus throwing myself right back into work," Shaw said.

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