As is the case with practically everything, the jobs market moves in peaks and troughs, waxing and waning based on economic and social elements.
What makes a suitable candidate? Even before the pandemic set in, there was a paradigm shift taking place whereupon prospective employers, recruiters and headhunters, were focusing on a candidate’s applicable skills and acumen, over their qualifications and experience.
They say work is about so much more than your job description. This is true, but the expression works both ways.
Tech workers can be forgiven for struggling to welcome their new AI overlords. Artificial intelligence, on the face of it, seems set to sink its talons into almost every competency a tech company requires, wiping some departments from the payroll and disrupting others.
If you’ve ever roped in a friend to keep you on track towards a specific goal, you’ll know how beneficial it can be to articulate your intentions, and have someone encourage you to be accountable.
“Working from home” is not a new concept. Prior to the events of 2020, most office-based professionals had attempted it, albeit usually in a highly limited capacity, possibly when it was simply unavoidable due to certain circumstances.
When you look at the statistics surrounding the amount of girls versus boys who study STEM subjects in early education, it becomes apparent that the gender gap in tech is a systemic issue that starts at an early age.
Like all sectors, tech has undergone significant changes in recent years. Since the onset of the pandemic, however, it has been experiencing its own peaks and troughs somewhat out of step with others.
This year so far has been saturated with speculation about the capability of artificial intelligence. Thousands of articles have warned about how AI will eventually “take over the world”, (or perhaps just put us all out of a job), but there’s no substitute for human creativity, understanding and camaraderie in the workplace.
It turns out there can be such a thing as too much communication, and it’s really getting us down at work. A constant barrage of email threads, messages, pop-up reminders, video meetings and other always-on comms has modern workers buckled at the knees.
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