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At age 54, executive career coach and strategist Loren Greiff worked at one of the world’s most well-respected executive search firms.Her experience as an older worker inspired Greiff, who’s based in Asheville, North Carolina, to found her own career coaching business — PortfolioRocket — in 2020.Greiff, now 61, aims to…
A few years after Amir Satvat landed his first video-game job at the age of 38, layoffs started piling up across the industry at companies such as Xbox maker Microsoft and publisher Electronic Arts. Seeing many of his new peers let go, he became motivated to lend a hand.Satvat built…
Eric was paid to catch employees secretly working multiple jobs. Then he became one of them.A few years ago, Eric was working in an IT role at a large company. His job responsibilities included investigating three types of “illicit employment” within the organization: workers who outsourced their job responsibilities to…
By 2045, robots and artificial intelligence could render most human jobs obsolete — and there’s little time to prepare for the fallout, according to Adam Dorr, director of research at the RethinkX think tank.In a Wednesday interview with The Guardian, Dorr warned that machines are advancing so rapidly that within…
Hello. Search and rescue operations continue in central Texas, where severe flooding has killed more than 80 people. Dozens are still missing.During a Sunday press conference, officials made what has become a familiar request during recent natural disasters: Don’t fly your personal drones over the disaster area.In today’s newsletter, lawyers…
Sharpen your pencils and shine your stethoscopes: If you’re looking for the drivers of the resilient labor market, they might be behind a desk at your local school or staffing your local hospital.They were largely responsible for a June jobs report that came in hotter than expected, with the country…
The US added 147,000 jobs in June, exceeding expectations, and unemployment unexpectedly cooled to 4.1%.Economists expected job growth of 111,000 and for unemployment to increase from 4.2%, which it had been for three consecutive months, to 4.3%.May’s job growth was revised from 139,000 to 144,000, and April’s job growth was…
Charles thought that secretly working multiple jobs would protect him from layoffs. He was wrong.Between 2021 and 2023, Charles earned as much as $300,000 annually by juggling multiple full-time jobs in product and tech. The extra income helped him pay down debt, renovate his home, buy a rental property, and…
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