Anthropic Just Pledged $350 Million to Study What AI Does to Jobs. It Also Offered a Way In.

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On June 10, Anthropic announced two new commitments totalling $350 million. The larger piece, $200 million, goes to an Economic Futures Research Fund, an expansion of a program the company launched a year earlier to fund empirical research and policy trials on AI’s economic effects. The fund will back research trials and what the company … Read more

Young People Can’t Get Hired Anywhere. The Reasons Are Different Everywhere.

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A 24-year-old in New York, a 24-year-old in Seoul, and a 24-year-old in Shanghai are all struggling to land a first professional job in 2026. From a distance, it looks like one global story. Up close, it is at least three different ones, and the difference matters, because what would fix the problem in one … Read more

The Best Job Sites for Healthcare Workers Around the World

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Healthcare is the only sector that added jobs consistently through the weakest hiring period of 2025, and demand has strengthened into 2026. The most in-demand roles globally include registered nurses, physicians, physiotherapists, medical laboratory technologists, radiographers, and healthcare administrators. Wealthier countries are actively recruiting internationally to fill gaps their local education systems are not producing … Read more

How to Write a Resume That Gets Past an ATS

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Jobscan’s 2025 analysis detected an applicant tracking system on 97.8 percent of Fortune 500 career sites. When you submit a job application online at any large employer, software reads your resume before any person does. It parses the document, extracts information, and scores how closely your application matches the job description. If the score is too … Read more

Jobs That Sound Made Up (But Aren’t)

Section 1: Reading Most job listings blur together. The titles change, the companies change, but the basic shape stays the same: responsibilities, qualifications, competitive salary, apply now. Against this backdrop, the genuinely unusual job stands out not just because it is strange, but because it forces a question most of us never think to ask: … Read more

The World Is Working. It Just Isn’t Working Well.

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The headline number looks reassuring. Global unemployment is projected to hold at 4.9 percent in 2026, near the lowest level in decades. If that were the whole story, the world of work would be in decent shape. It is not the whole story. The International Labour Organization’s Employment and Social Trends 2026 report, published in … Read more

The 10 Types of Jobs Set to Grow the Most Over the Next Five Years

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Before getting to the list, one distinction worth holding onto, because it is the thing most “fastest-growing jobs” articles get wrong. There are two different ways to measure a growing job, and they produce almost opposite lists. A job can grow fast in percentage terms while adding very few actual positions, simply because it started … Read more

Meta tracks workers to train their AI replacements, lays off 8000, then has most profitable quarter ever

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There is a particular kind of dread in being asked to document exactly how you do your job, in detail, for a system you suspect is being built to do it without you. For thousands of Meta employees in 2026, that suspicion turned out to be correct. The clip above captures something a lot of … Read more

The Asian Job Market Doesn’t Exist. Here Are Several That Do.

There is no single Asian job market. A new graduate in Shanghai and one in Tokyo are living through opposite problems at the same moment: one is competing against a record flood of fellow graduates for too few jobs, the other is being courted by employers who cannot find enough workers. Both realities are happening … Read more

What AI Is Actually Doing to Technical Writing and Freelance Work

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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment of technical writers will grow 1 percent between 2024 and 2034, slower than the average for all occupations. That single number captures the quiet reshaping of a profession that, until recently, was considered stable and reasonably well paid. The 1 percent figure is not a collapse. … Read more