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fromFortune
3 days ago

The blue-collar revolution isn't just for Gen Z. Six in 10 white-collar professionals say they'd switch for the right trades job | Fortune

The U.S. labor market is unusually tight, with limited hiring and firing prompting many office workers to reconsider their careers. A 2025 Flexjobs report found 62% of white-collar workers would switch to trade jobs for better stability and pay, while others aim to start businesses, retire early, move abroad, or take career breaks. Younger generations, especially Gen Z and Millennials, feel unprepared by education and training for the workforce.
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Online learning
fromeLearning Industry
1 week ago

How Learning And Development Can Support Employees During Career Transitions

L&D should deliver timely, personalized upskilling and emotional support to enable smooth career transitions, retain talent, and preserve institutional knowledge amid rapid workplace change.
Law
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks ago

Attorneys Should Take Long Times Off Between Jobs - Above the Law

Practicing attorneys generally have far less time for extended leave than students; extended breaks usually occur only by negotiating delayed start dates between jobs.
fromGrahamdumpleton
3 weeks ago

Back from the dead - Graham Dumpleton

The main one is that after IBM acquired Red Hat, and later when I moved to VMware/Broadcom, I didn't always feel comfortable posting on my personal blog or speaking as freely as I would have liked. I was also less involved with my open source projects and busy working on something new that I couldn't actively promote at the time. So, I decided to step away from blogging for a while; I just didn't know how long that would end up being.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Anna Ashurov explains her career journey from Goldman Sachs to Anheuser-Busch to BlackRock

Anna Ashurov has been busy. A 2018 member of Business Insider's rising stars list, Ashurov has changed companies twice since her stint at Goldman Sachs, going from the investment bank to the world's largest beer brewer and then to the world's largest asset manager, where she's worked since 2021. Ashurov now oversees growth strategy and client relationships for Aladdin, BlackRock's widely used risk analytics and portfolio management tech. She told Business Insider, she's focused on "driving growth holistically" instead of structuring deals and advising clients.
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Career
fromFast Company
1 month ago

What's a 'mirror mentor'? The new professional development tool to help you snag your next role

Peer mirror mentors—small groups of job-seeking peers—provide leads, feedback, and emotional support that complement or substitute traditional mentorship.
Career
fromNature
1 month ago

Before making a career move, try an experiment

Intentional, small career experiments can turn uncertainty into insight and reveal hybrid paths that combine complementary roles.
Business
fromFortune
2 months ago

Jamie Dimon turned down Jeff Bezos and a top gig at Amazon to take on 'troubled' Bank One in a $60 million bet

Jamie Dimon's firing from Citigroup in 1998 led to a period of introspection and potential career shifts, including a meeting with Jeff Bezos.
Startup companies
fromIndependent
4 months ago

'I built a business from my phone while breastfeeding' - meet the people who started lucrative side-hustles while working 9-5 jobs

Many professionals are balancing their day jobs with side-hustles for financial security.
fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago

I interviewed at multiple Big Tech companies and landed at Salesforce after a Meta layoff. These 6 things helped me stand out during my job search.

Quantify your résumé by highlighting your impact with data: "I drove growth by 40% in this region" or "I achieved 115% of my quota."
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