Comments on: The Effect of a Weakening Economy on the Job Market

By: JoshuaNorman

JoshuaNorman — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:04:21 +0000

Rise of securities jobs? Where? With whom? Requiring what skills? Since 2003, I have not seen that many original securities type jobs, the ones I’ve seen the posting was posted on multiple job boards, social media websites and even recruiters. Plus they were requiring years of experience in a specific discipline, as well as other specific skills even though they were staff-level jobs.

By: Faysal

Faysal — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:42:39 +0000

Thanks for your good and informative post.I think it’s going to be rather interesting to see how things will turn out in 10 years. I heard this somewhere, but I am not exactly sure… That students currently in college are preparing for jobs that don’t even exist yet.Please keep going.
Thanks
Faysal

By: Strangerthanreality

Strangerthanreality — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:26:15 +0000

Quote:”…..a lot of jobs, it has also made it very easy for people to do information-intensive work anywhere in the world (such as IT jobs)….”

Though it might seem like it just caused negative things happening, I think in the future, it’ll also increase the quality of the works. ‘Cause, more and more people will be available for the same position, and the result will be; more competition(and more quality)!

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:55:05 +0000

I think it’s going to be rather interesting to see how things will turn out in 10 years. I heard this somewhere, but I am not exactly sure… That students currently in college are preparing for jobs that don’t even exist yet. I believe it!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:59:08 +0000

By: Dickson Johnston

Dickson Johnston — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:39:20 +0000

I found this artical to be refreshingly (and unfortunately) agreeable with my own nonpopular observations.
As a small business owner at the top of my service industry for 15 yrs, I wish I knew as much about the underpinnings of the current global economic recession as I do about my own business. Despite the realestate hype 6 years ago, my suspicions of irresponsible lending practices , led me to buy a my first house at a fifth of my qualified lendability. As profit driven american companies and consumers alike are able to capitalize (via the internet) on equal design, production, retail and consumer service talents rising from lesser fortunate economies, I’m surprised to find that so many have not run the numbers. Americans are either unknowingly, or ingnorantly living in a globally connected job pool. In order to progress as a country, we have to get past our notions of the american company’s dependence on it’s connection to the local people. I don’t see a solution to that (unpublicised problem) addressed in President Obama’s rebuilding of the infastructure plan. The internet connection has and certainly will continue to draw jobs from the american economy in the areas of design, production, retail and communications services. The only services that seem to be untouchable are physical onsite services. If so, there could be a massive clash of overeducated meets illegal immigrant workers to compete for those onsite needs. I hope my perspective will never be realized.

I came across this article while googling, ” current underpinnings of the economy,”. I found the article to be an insightful and honest reflection, butted with a hopeful mention of U.S. innovation. I felt compelled to respond to it because, while reading it, I felt that the author seemed to have an unwritten opinion (possibly as unpolitical as the article) on what he thought the future would look like.