A lot of us would love to work from home, and many workers today are lucky enough to be able to take advantage of workplaces that offer a bit of flexibility as to when and where they work. Continue reading… “The true cost of a flexible job”
Work anniversaries are the best time to recruit employed prospects
Is there a best time for recruiters and sourcers to contact employed prospects? There are specific times when employees who previously said “no and stop calling me” actually change their mind and are fully receptive to a recruiting call. Continue reading… “Work anniversaries are the best time to recruit employed prospects”
The solar power jobs sector grew 20 times faster than any other energy sector
Solar isn’t just the way to go for our power needs, but it’s the way to go for jobs as well. The solar power jobs sector grew 20 times faster than any other sector, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In fact, the number of solar jobs has surpassed the number of coal mining jobs. This is a hopeful sign for both alternative energy and job growth.
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11 million jobs and $3.3 trillion in revenue created by mobile technologies
Mobile tech generated $3.3 trillion in revenue in 2014
Mobile technology has had a great impact on the global economy, and a new report is showing us just how big that impact actually is. According to a report by The Boston Consulting Group, mobile technology generated $3.3 trillion in revenue in 2014.
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Technological Automation of Jobs Debate
The topic of job displacement has, throughout US history, ignited frustration over technological advances and their tendency to make traditional jobs obsolete; artisans protested textile mills in the early 19th century, for example. In recent years, start-ups and the high-tech industry have become the focus of this discussion. A recent Pew Research Center study found that technology experts are almost evenly split on whether robots and artificial intelligence will displace a significant number of jobs over the next decade, so there is plenty of room for debate.
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Flexibility is critical for young people because ‘whole careers are vanishing overnight’
Recent college grads
As the digital sector grows, jobs that rely on older technologies are rapidly becoming obsolete.
According to the census, between 2006 and 2011 there were some occupations where the number of people employed across the country dropped by up to two-thirds in just five years – corporate services managers, for example, fell from 21,804 in 2006 to 7365 in 2011.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1966, 46% of workers in Australia were employed in production industries. 30 years later, that proportion has diminished to 28%.
The technology-driven future will bring upheaval and opportunity
Futurist Thomas Frey
Thomas Frey, executive director and senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute estimates that billions of jobs will disappear in the next 15 years due to the Internet of Things (IoT) and many associated technological advances, but these extreme and accelerating changes will also create many new industries and countless new jobs to replace those they’ve eliminated.
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10 million jobs in Britain at risk from advancing technology
Over the next 20 years, Ten million British jobs could be taken over by computers and robots, wiping out more than one in three roles.
The video game industry is growing 4 times faster than the U.S. economy
An Electronic Arts employee works on a character for “MySims.”
The U.S. economy is on the upswing. Unemployment is down to 5.8 percent, and we’re adding hundreds of thousands of new jobs every months — and the video game industry is partially responsible for that.
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Not since 1966 has the federal government’s workforce been so small
The shrinking government workforce doesn’t mean that government spending is at record lows.
It’s hard to believe the federal government now employs the fewest people since the mid-1960s. Yet according to jobs report earlier this month, the federal government now employs 2,711,000 people (excluding non-civilian military). Among the economy’s largest job sectors, it was the only one to shrink over the past year.
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Technology will kill many New Zealander’s jobs in 20 years
Steve Jellard’s job is unlikely to exist in 20 years.
Almost a third of New Zealand’s workers believe their job will not exist in 20 years’ time, according to new research.
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101 Endangered Jobs by 2030
Futurist Thomas Frey: Business owners today are actively deciding whether their next hire should be a person or a machine. After all, machines can work in the dark and don’t come with decades of HR case law requiring time off for holidays, personal illness, excessive overtime, chronic stress or anxiety.
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