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Markets Insider: Northcentral University Unveils Locked Tuition Rates, Career Services for New Master’s Students
As part of an innovative new approach, NCU advisors will provide employment insights to students using the Burning Glass Technologies Career Insight™ platform. Career Insight offers information on specific job titles by location, such as the number of people hired in the past year at that location, along with average salaries and average time to fill the position.
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SHRM: Entry-Level-Experience Requirements Could Be Hurting Your Hiring
There are more jobs available in the United States than people officially considered unemployed, yet the underemployment rate among recent college graduates remains at over 40 percent. It can be difficult for newly minted grads to find an entry-level job within their experience level. Similarly, Burning Glass found an increase in the number of soft and hard skills being demanded.
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Fast Company: Machines might take jobs–they can also help train us for new ones
Nearly half of all jobs that exist today could become automated over the next several years. Even workers in roles that robots will not be able to master will likely see their jobs change as smart technology firmly integrates into the workplace.
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Foreign Policy: Learning to Work With Robots
Doomsday headlines such as “You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think” reflect fears that artificial intelligence and robots will replace human labor on a mass scale and computers will become so intelligent that people will simply be unable to compete.
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Forbes: Skills And Tomorrow’s Jobs Report: The Usual Suspects
After business journalists interview CEOs (big skills gap!) and economists (no skills gap!), here are three of “the usual suspects” once again to be trotted out and interrogated: not enough school…not enough STEM…not enough salary.
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Information Age: From upskilling to outsourcing: How CTOs can introduce blockchain to the enterprise
Information Age’s guide on how to introduce blockchain to your enterprise in the face of the digital skills crisis. Looking at everything, from upskilling schemes and outsourcing to how CTOs can impact change in relation to how universities shape their degrees. According to a study by Burning Glass Technologies, blockchain-related job postings increased more than 100% between 2016 and 2017.
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