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The old-school practice of networking — building professional relationships over the course of years — is becoming an increasingly important employment safeguard as AI upends the workplace. The Big Picture: AI and remote work have disrupted every aspect of the job market, including what entry-level jobs still exist, how resumes are analyzed, and who’s eligible to apply for positions. […]
Hit Activision game franchise Call of Duty has helped 150,000 American veterans find steady jobs since 2009… making it the largest private funder of vet employment and now more effective at doing so than the federal government. Why It Hits: As the federal government cuts costs and contracts its workforce, innovative organizations that can close […]
The job of “prompt engineer” — being able to craft the perfect string of words to get an AI system to generate an intended output — seemed to herald the new entry-level job of the AI era, with an expected annual growth rate of nearly 33%. But, in just two years, it’s already gone the […]
Job platform Glassdoor reports that interest in summer internships is skyrocketing among recent college graduates, as the job market becomes increasingly more complicated. Why It Hits: As young people struggle to land entry-level positions, they’re turning to internships as a stepping stone toward their desired jobs after graduation. While that’s been true for some time […]
Ghost jobs — positions employers have no intention of filling — are plaguing employment platforms and making job searches even harder. Why It Hurts: Despite job openings increasing per the Department of Labor, job seekers in several white-collar industries are sharing a different story — one where job searches stretch for months, prospective employers simply stop responding, and […]
Both employers and workers have embraced TikTok as a hiring platform, positioning the app as LinkedIn for young people looking to show off their creativity in applications. Why It Hits: Swamped job postings on LinkedIn and impersonal AI screenings for interviews have made finding a job not through a personal connection feel impossible. Public TikTok video applications could give […]
The Future. Despite only being around for about two years, AI systems like ChatGPT and Midjourney are already taking away a significant number of jobs from freelancers — an issue affecting 38% of Americans. If AI becomes even more widespread, low-skilled, task-driven work may soon only be the purview of chatbots. Gigs for gigabytesFinding a […]
The Future. Young people, especially Gen Zers, are looking to skilled trade work as an appealing alternative to joining the professional class. With the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act set to ramp up positions in new industries like wind and solar, expect there to be a surge in employment that rivals the tech boom of […]
The Future. College degrees and the job market aren’t seeing eye-to-eye these days — a major study found that over half of college graduates are “underemployed” a year after graduation. While colleges’ failure to prepare students for the workforce and the job market’s obsession with data-driven work are both at fault for the phenomenon, expect […]
The Future. Handshake, which counts 15 million college students as users, is rolling out a revamped platform that’s essentially TikTok for job seekers and companies that are hiring. Considering the popularity of work-related content on TikTok, companies that have strong content on Handshake could see a flood of applications. Employment entertainmentHandshake’s new scrollable feed, which […]