Parents are wanting increasingly more experienced and highly qualified nannies to look after their children.
For generations, parents just wanted a nanny who would love their children. New research has found parents now expect much more. Four fifths of families require a nanny with “additional skills” including cooking and the ability to play or teach a musical instrument.
Employers are looking for people who can invent, adapt and reinvent their jobs every day, in a market that changes faster than ever.
The rise in the unemployment rate last month to 9.2 percent has Democrats and Republicans reliably falling back on their respective cure-alls. It is evidence for liberals that we need more stimulus and for conservatives that we need more tax cuts to increase demand. I am sure there is truth in both, but I do not believe they are the whole story. I think something else, something new — something that will require our kids not so much to find their next job as to invent their next job — is also influencing today’s job market more than people realize.
Continue reading… “‘The start-up of you’ – Reinventing yourself in the ever changing job market”
Futurist Thomas Frey: On Monday evening I presented my thoughts on the “Future of Mobile Apps & Peripherals” at our monthly Night with a Futurist event. My talk was followed by a fascinating panel discussion with three of the industry’s brightest minds – Michael Sitarzewski, Lisa Calkins, and Gary Moskoff with Karl Dakin moderating the discussion.
Continue reading… “Eight Critical Skills for the Future”
Evidence of a skills mismatch became increasingly clear in Fresno after the housing bubble burst, causing joblessness to nearly triple.
This city is grappling with one of the most troubling contradictions of the new economy: Even as it has one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates, it has thousands of job openings.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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