I’ve been asked this question daily since the summer of ’24. Being in the business for 24 years you see patterns. You’re able to predict downturns and upswings. You follow the trends and can forecast fairly accurately. Yeah, those were the days. My first role started in 2002 when the Dot com bubble burst. IT managers were driving airport shuttles
Last month there were 213,000 new unemployment claims in the U.S. bringing the current total number of unemployment claims to $1.85 million. How much of that is AI related? According the Harvard Business Journal, over 45 CEOs have announced layoffs due to AI efficiencies, totaling over 100,000 employees since last year. Most notable are Atlassian announcing
Job hunters. What to do in the meantime. For many, things are grim. The economy is uncertain and there are many factors playing a role in the long runway back to stability. The reality is we are in Q4 when many\most companies hit pause on hiring until new budgets are established and approved for Q1 of next
My son is a huge Abraham Lincoln fan. So much so that he dressed up like Lincoln for Halloween when he was 10. An interesting choice considering most of his friends were dressed up as superheroes, villains or cartoon characters. Regardless, he donned the beard, black coat and stovepipe hat and set out to pillage
There’s an on-going debate over what to do when a prospective employer asks you to provide what could be deemed as “free consulting” during the interview process. That could manifest in a variety of ways from a simple, “How would you go about reaching this demographic?”; to the more complex “Please provide a detailed presentation
