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Monday, May 22, 2023

Shifting Labor Market: White-Collar Jobs Under Threat

Nine Rounds of Interviews and No Call Back: It’s Harder Than Ever to Land a White-Collar Job
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-its-harder-than-ever-to-land-white-collar-job-978c7bc7

The Disappearing White-Collar Job
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-disappearing-white-collar-job-af0bd925
A once-in-a-generation convergence of technology and pressure to operate more efficiently has corporations saying many lost jobs may never return 

Almost 200,000 Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-23/how-to-get-a-job-in-2023-young-workers-eye-finance-with-tech-struggling
With prominent companies culling workers and cutting pay for new hires, more young workers are reconsidering finance jobs.

Harvard MBA Grads Enter a Tepid Job Market Hoping for the Best
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-01/harvard-mba-grads-anxiously-navigate-a-tepid-job-market
Students and faculty say the final semester has been suffused with worry and a higher share of the class leaving school unemployed.

Why job searches suck right now
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-chatgpt-hiring-ghost-interviews-job-search-weird-labor-market-2023-5
Applicants are sending out hundreds of job applications and hearing nothing back. Ghost jobs, AI résumé screening, and a lopsided economy are making the job search miserable.



No Degree? No Problem. Biden Tries to Bridge the ‘Diploma Divide.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/biden-working-class-voters.html
President Biden is trying to appeal to working-class voters by emphasizing his plans to create well-paid jobs that do not require a college degree.