Analysis & Advice / Your Next Move
Weekly advice for navigating work, business and opportunity. Each column translates a challenge or emerging shift into practical guidance you can use to make your next decision.
The modern job search rewards persistence, but applying everywhere may be working against you. With hiring slowing and questionable listings harder to spot, knowing where to spend your time matters as much as having a strong résumé.
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Losing a job can upend your finances, confidence and sense of direction. Recovery takes more than sending out résumés: it means protecting your stability, rethinking your search and learning to compete in a labor market that may have changed since you were last hired.
Layoffs are running below last year’s pace, but finding the next job is taking longer. The cheapest time to prepare is while the paycheck is still arriving.
For workers with existing skills, the real opening in AI is using it to turn expertise, knowledge and spare capacity into something someone will pay for.
