Monster.com and market research company GfK conducted a survey of 8,000 workers across the United States, Canada, India, and Europe which we suppose makes it somewhat official: America is number one! Number one in the percentage of employees who hate their jobs, that is.
Continue reading… “Americans hate their jobs more than everyone else in the world hates their jobs”
Four of the seven fastest-growing technology jobs did not even exist on TheLadders five years ago.
According to new research, technology jobs have replaced those in middle management as the positions employers are trying to fill most.
Continue reading… “Top 10 fastest growing job titles are all in technology”
There will be significant growth for jobs that require a college education and occupations in health care, energy and technology.
The jobs market for the future currently looks bleak. The unemployment rate has been stuck above 7 percent since December 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And as futurist Thomas Frey recently told AOL Jobs, half of all the jobs in existence today will no longer be around by 2030.
Continue reading… “Top 19 fastest growing occupations”
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 22 percent growth in programming jobs in by 2020.
Steve Jobs said, in the now infamous “Lost Interview,” “Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.” We all know that learning to code is one of the most hyped skills right now – and for good reason, considering the insatiable demand for developers.
Continue reading… “Top 7 reasons you need to learn reactive programming”
Futurist Thomas Frey: It’s easy to spot signs of desperation in people’s eyes. With unemployment rates at persistently high levels and young people unable to find jobs from one year to the next, we have become a society seething with anxiety.
Your LinkedIn profile is much more than just your online CV.
The job search is something that everyone over 18 has pulled their hair out over at one point or another in their life. What ways can you improve your credibility and the opportunities that are out there?
Continue reading… “Don’t let LinkedIn ruin your chance of getting that job you want”
People will adapt to smart machines in their lives.
Coming to the business world: smart machines. But don’t tell that to the CEO’s. Sixty-percent of CEOs surveyed by Gartner Research say the emergence of smart machines capable of absorbing millions of middle-class jobs within 15 years is a “futurist fantasy.”
Continue reading… “Smart machines will replace millions of jobs within 15 years”
Will computers do our jobs better than we can in the future?
Almost half of U.S. jobs are vulnerable to being taken over by computers as artificial intelligence continues to improve, according to a recent study released by Oxford University.
Continue reading… “47% of U.S. jobs could be done by computers: Study”
A new study from the Oxford Martin Program on the Impacts of Future Technology suggests that almost half of U.S. jobs could be susceptible to computerization over the next two decades.
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Two years ago, Erin Ford graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering. Recruiters came to campus to woo her. She got a paid summer internship, which turned into a full-time job after she graduated. Now, at age 24, she makes $110,000 a year.
Continue reading… “The most and least lucrative college majors”
Like the unemployment rate, the employment-population ratio is also affected by labor participation.
The US jobs report last week added to a long string of lackluster monthly installments of data, but at least one thing has been looking up: The unemployment rate is ticking down steadily, dropping almost a tenth of a percentage point with each new report.
Continue reading… “Here’s what you might have missed about the U.S. jobs report”
We came of age as deregulated financial institutions stumbled and took housing, bank accounts, and jobs with them. The bailout helped those industries bounce back, but what about a generation’s collective sense of security and purpose? Young people aren’t totally turned off by work despite today’s economy. They are excited about getting fulfillment from their careers, especially if they can help others.
Continue reading… “Millennials optimistic about career prospects”
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