A recruiter spends about 7.4 seconds scanning a resume, according to an eye-tracking study from the career site TheLadders. That’s usually after software looks at it first. A Harvard Business School study found 99% of Fortune 500 companies filter applicants through tracking systems before a person opens anything, and most job-search advice predates all of…
Rhode Island made coffee milk its official state drink in 1993. The syrup bottle still sits on grocery shelves the way ketchup does everywhere else. Plenty of people outside New England have never poured a glass. These are the Rhode Island foods and drinks the rest of the country has never heard of. 1. New…
A Salvation Farms study estimated Vermont farms left roughly 14 million pounds of edible food unharvested or unsold in a single year. Some of it gets picked anyway, by people who don’t own the field. Nobody advertises where that food goes, and the leaf routes run right past all of it. These are the things…
A 12-by-12 tent is legal on a South Carolina beach from the day after Labor Day until the day before Memorial Day. The week the tourists leave, a beach town rewrites a list of rules like that. These are the things that change in a South Carolina beach town the week summer ends. 1. Fewer…
Sweet Martha’s out-earned every other food vendor at the Minnesota State Fair in 2024, pulling in close to $4.9 million over twelve days. The Olsons had applied to sell frozen yogurt. Fair officials offered them a cookie booth three weeks before opening day instead. These are the Minnesota State Fair foods with histories stranger than…
Goop paid $145,000 in 2018 to settle a case over jade eggs sold as a way to balance hormones, and agreed to stop advertising them as a remedy for anything. The claim outlived the settlement. These are the wellness claims Californians should question before trying. Note: This is general information, not medical advice. Guidelines and…
Excelsior Springs has already spent roughly $1 million keeping the floor of its 1930s bathhouse from collapsing into the pool ceiling below it. Another $2.5 million would finish the job. Missouri towns are running that arithmetic on buildings all over the state right now, mostly with money they raised themselves. These are the small-town Missouri…
A homecoming mum cost a few dollars in the 1960s. A high-end one now runs past $1,000, and a homemade one eats 14 hours of a parent’s weekend. Every Texas family with a teenager complains about that, then does it again the next year. These are the Texas family traditions everyone complains about but nobody…
Some restaurant names sound as familiar to Tennesseans as McDonald’s or Taco Bell. Mention them a few states away, though, and the conversation can come to an awkward stop. These are the restaurant chains Tennesseans assume everyone has heard of. 1. Logan’s Roadhouse Logan’s Roadhouse grew out of Nashville, built by a Nashville restaurant veteran…
Pennsylvania doesn’t ease into fall as gradually as the leaves might suggest. One chilly week flips routines across the state and makes summer feel farther away than it did a few days earlier. These are the things Pennsylvanians change the week fall truly arrives. 1. Deer Season Prep Pennsylvania’s bow hunters go from casual to…
