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Should AI Change What Career You Choose?

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Choosing a career is hard. Whether you’re a high school student preparing to enter the working world or an experienced professional considering a change, there’s a lot to weigh, from salary and job security to work-life balance, growth opportunities, and whether you’ll even enjoy the day-to-day work. With artificial intelligence (AI) becoming part of so many aspects of our lives, there’s another question to consider: What if the career you’re interested in looks completely different in five or ten years, or no longer exists at all? Whether you're investing years in a degree or training, or considering a job you could start tomorrow, how might those changes affect your long-term career prospects? If you want predictions about the future with ...

How Automation Affects Manufacturing Hiring: Changing Job Roles and Skills

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Few topics come up more often in discussions of the future of manufacturing jobs than automation. Supporters point to the potential for greater productivity, economic growth, and automated systems taking over dull, dirty, or dangerous work. Skeptics worry about job security, including the potential for significant job displacement as machines replace human workers in certain tasks. Both perspectives reflect real possibilities, but the number of jobs gained or lost is only part of how automation affects manufacturing hiring . When automation changes how work gets done, the effects can reach well beyond the positions that prev...

Why Is Your Job Hard to Fill?

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The job has been posted for weeks on job boards, your company's career portal, and social media. Applicants have trickled (or even flooded) in, but very few meet the hard requirements the hiring manager set. You've interviewed the candidates who looked good on paper, but so far no one has checked all the right boxes. The job description has been rewritten, the salary raised, and thousands spent on sponsored job postings, but the right person remains elusive. And yet you keep hearing that there are plenty of people looking for work. So why is your job hard to fill? It isn't because hiring has stopped. The U.S. Bureau ...