Jobspeaker

01/02/2026

Happy New Year to you all! I hope 2026 is a huge success for you all!

11/28/2025

Happy Thanksgiving - hope you are enjoying time with friends and family!

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

— Oprah Winfrey

11/06/2025

Companies are looking to trim their workforce for a while - somewhat as a result of the pandemic when some companies payroll ballooned. Now companies are taking a similar approach as they leverage AI .. will smaller companies do the same? https://jspkr.li/2025AIAWLayoffs

Amazon and Walmart are among firms warning employees of layoffs or disruption from AI as leaders across corporate America talk of increasing efficiency.

09/29/2025

Another example of how AI is cutting into jobs, this time in the legal profession. CBInsights reported last week that one Legal AI company is expecting to do 70 times 2024 revenue in 2025, while others are boasting significant gains. So, do we still need the same number of lawyers guiding and making decisions with an AI system or ...?

09/14/2025

Do you want a hug ... maybe not this type? Post- COVID many people were switching roles because they were tired of their roles and the job market was "hopping" ;-) Now, "job hugging" is popular as the opposite where people are making a choice to stay at a job for longer in order to weather a stormy job market. http://jspkr.li/42qIj2B

09/12/2025

Whether you are talking about AI jobs or Manufacturing jobs or Finance jobs - its about skills - it's ultimately always been about skills! Do you have the skills to do the job and now it's about how do you raise above the noise in order to prove it? https://jspkr.li/ItsAlwaysSkills

09/12/2025

Not so good signs of the times: The Consumer Price Index increased an annual 2.9%, up from 2.7% in July, BLS revised job numbers down 911k for the 12 months ending March 2025, graduate hires are down 13% compared to last year. It's official the economy is struggling. So on the bright side, we will likely get a interest rate reduction but that's not going to fix all of our woes!

09/11/2025

Is Big Bird getting fired? No probably not (Phew!) as while the Sesame Workshop licenses its content to PBS their content is also available on Netflix. However, the layoffs at PBS does continue a worrying trend for jobs, for public media and civil debate. https://jspkr.li/PBSCuts

09/10/2025

I love technology and I missed this event so I hoping to get to the next one. The evolution of Robot Wars to biped fighting robots akin to Real Steel (the 2011 movie starring Hugh Jackman) are here. Maybe the bleeding edge of new humanoid consumer robots that are coming ... https://apple.news/ACeT6iEhDRwGMpQM_NxE64Q

09/10/2025

I have heard complaints from employers and job seekers about the state of the job market that is increasingly being infected by AI tools. This Atlantic article describes the current dilemma in the job market:

Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.