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OECD 2026: Your Region Predicts Job Odds More Than Degree

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A worker in the Italian Mezzogiorno faces unemployment odds more than four times higher than a worker in the country’s industrialized north, according to the OECD’s Employment Outlook 2026, released July 7. In Newfoundland’s Division No. 9, unemployment sat at 29 percent versus 3.3 percent in Quebec’s Nicolet-Yamaska, a nine-to-one gap within a single country. The … Read more

Layoffs Are at a Four-Year Low. So Why Do the Headlines Say Otherwise?

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Two things are true about the labor market right now, and they seem to contradict each other. Overall layoff activity in the US is running at its slowest pace in four years. At the same time, a steady stream of large, recognizable companies have announced significant workforce cuts within the same few weeks: Uber, Microsoft, … Read more

Entry-Level Jobs Are Vanishing. Someone Has to Train Juniors

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The training pipeline that turned graduates into working professionals is breaking, and no one agrees on who should repair it. A June 2026 BBC News panel, “Is Gen Z trapped by AI?”, put the problem plainly. Young people were told AI would make them more employable, and instead many watch the first rung of the … Read more

Job Sites for Domestic and Care Workers Around the World

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Domestic and care work is one of the largest job categories in the world, and one of the least served by mainstream career sites. The International Labour Organization estimates 67.1 million domestic workers globally, more than 11.5 million of them international migrants, and roughly three in four are women. Aging populations across Europe, East Asia, … Read more

West Africa Is Funding a New Route From School to Work

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The World Bank has approved a new regional program intended to connect education, skills training, and employment for young people in Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, and Guinea. The program is called SIRA, short for Skills for Innovation, Resilience, and Aspirations. Its first phase has $642 million in financing and is expected to reach 5.4 million … Read more

6,470 People Applied for One Government Job in China Last Month

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On November 30, 2025, 2.83 million people sat China’s national civil service exam at the same time, in 250 cities, competing for 38,100 government positions. One of those positions, an entry-level police officer role at an immigration repatriation center in Ruili, a small city on the Myanmar border, drew 6,470 applications for a single opening. … Read more

Free Courses and Certificates Worth Adding to a CV in 2026

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Most “free course” lists have a problem. They count a course as free when the lessons are free but the certificate, the part an employer actually sees, sits behind a monthly fee. For someone in Lagos, Manila, or Bogotá, the difference between a free credential and a 49-dollar-a-month subscription is not a rounding error. It … Read more

Working in the Gulf After Kafala: What the New Rules Actually Give You

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For more than seventy years, a foreign worker’s legal status in Saudi Arabia was tied directly to a single employer, the kafeel, who controlled whether that worker could change jobs, leave the country, or even hold onto their own passport. That system, known as Kafala, was formally replaced in June 2025 with a contract-based employment … Read more

Job Boards That Actually Work Outside the US and UK: A Region-by-Region Directory

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LinkedIn has over a billion members. Indeed claims to operate in 60+ countries. Yet if you are job hunting in Nairobi, Lagos, Manila, or Riyadh, neither platform will get you very far on its own. Both are weakest in the markets where job seeker populations are growing fastest. Regional platforms have deeper employer relationships, more … Read more