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  In Q2 this year LinkedIn's revenues rose 12% . Despite that, that platform for job search is laying off 5%. A poster on Reddit claims it's more: "My brother works at LI, and things look really bad internally. The 5% figure is not accurate; the actual number is much higher." A higher number could happen through performance-based terminations. They are not classified as "layoffs" but a cause-related firing. The cause may or may not be perceived by onlookers as justified.  The terminations  include roles in Microsoft's owned Global Business Organization, engineering, product teams and marketing. About the latter: Marketing has been getting hit hard across myriad sectors, including the practice of law . Once glam and prestigious, it's now targeted. Creative thinking is in demand. But less so those in actual creative professions. In addition, LinkedIn is cutting back on investment in parts of its business . Among them are use of vendors, customer eve...

  What a difference half a century makes.  In the late 1970s the MBA was the  ticket. For getting in, for being promoted, for the knowledge assumed to be required to start a business. In order to transition from non-profit to the private sector I took calculus, the GMAT and coaching for my application to be admitted to the MBA program. I was right: One semester in, I landed a plum job in Big Oil at more than double my salary and with an expense account.  Now, as The Wall Street Journal has been telling us for a few years and again today: The marketability of that degree has declined. That's because employers not only value hands-on skills more than education. The MBA sends the wrong signals. Those include: Expectations of higher wages Entitlement for special treatment Stuck in school-learning that has to be unlearned. Too clever by far. There is the stigma of being branded negatively as the smartest kid in the room and, as with Jeff Stilling who was a Harvard MBA, w...

  Today, faculty at Harvard vote on the issue of limiting "A" grades.  The perception has been that too many of those have been handed out but not earned.  It's common for Harvard College graduates to go after jobs in finance and consulting and apply to top law schools. Those require high grades. That's the first cut. Without those grades the edge of the investment of a Harvard education could be diminished. Hell, you could have gone to a state school. Obviously students oppose limiting the number of "A" grades. The playing field on which they compete for a future could be made more level. Earning a Good Living in 2026 Involves Mental Combat. The enemy is usually your own thinking. Complimentary consultation. No Pressure. Solid Guidance. Contact Jane Genova janegenova374@gmail.com.

  There's that old saying: Being at the wrong place at the wrong time. That's how we might size up the job-security situation of IT salaried workers at GM. As CNBC reports, on the one hand, yesterday GM began laying off 500 to 600 It salaried in Warren, Michigan and Austin, Texas. On the other hand, there are 84 open IT positions in AI, motorsports and autonomous vehicles. In my coaching, I guide career-preparers and ambitious workers on how to identify where the demands is and where it's going.  After a year wandering in the underemployment desert when executive communications collapsed post-9/11 I did some intense research on who was getting work and getting ahead. The answer: digital marketing, That kept me going for years. When the glut took over, along with AI, I connected the dots again and have been doing okay for five years. The tough nut to crack in these kinds of transitions is that you might love what you had been doing which is no longer marketable. As Henry Cl...

  Hovering over the career prospects of recent law graduates and junior lawyers is this question: How much will AI impact hiring, holding on to the job and upward mobility? In addition, any such shifts could make obsolete the pyramid structure of law firms - a large base of grunt workers billing at high rates. It would be replaced by the diamond structure - few grunts at the bottom, bulge in the middle with experienced lawyers and a small pool of partners at the top. Much of this has been frozen at the level of chatter. For example, US Chief Justice John Roberts, Paul, Weiss partner Brad Karp and former head of Quinn Emanuel John Quinn all put out there dire warnings that AI will downsize demand for inexperienced lawyers. Yet, hiring of recent law school graduates has held up. Now this. Australian law firm MinterEllison had moved ahead with action and has been blunt about that is has been triggered by AI.  LawFuel  reports: "The firm has effectively put the  Australi...

Of course, influencer  is an actual career path. You bet, you can leave traditional employment behind. Along with that there could be so much more: glam, easy money, big names contacting you, invitations to speak at special events and the name recognition can open other opportunities. But, as The Telegraph documents, the influencer space has already evolved into a mature industry. That means it's glutted. Brutally competitive. And unforgiving by those paying for your influencing if your numbers, tracked by the likes of Click Analytic and Lefty, go down.  So, the 57% of Gen Zers who want to be influencers have yet another line of work blocked. The majority of those already in are struggling. Right now only 12% are grossing $50,000 or more. Worst of all, AI can wipe out 80% of influencer work. As with a growing number of career paths that are collapsing and leaving Gen Zers out in the cold, it wasn't always that way.  Back in 2005, being an influencer was totally open. W...