Global Alliances Are More Important Than Ever By Eli Amdur You have a decision to make. You’re a major trader of goods over established trade routes or you’re a land baron controlling resources – timber, furs, grains, textiles, chalk – that proliferate across your expansive lands and numerous ports in central and northern Europe. You…
How To Become An AI All Star, A Guide For Non-Techies By Eli Amdur This is Part II of a two-part series on getting up to speed in AI. This part will address the career and job needs of the non-technical worker: the AI user. Part one addressed the technical worker: the AI developer. I…
How To Become An AI All Star, A Guide For Techies By Eli Amdur This is Part I of a two-part series on getting up to speed in AI. This part will address the career and job needs of the technical worker: the AI developer. Part two will address the non-technical worker: the AI user….
Sure enough. No sooner does innovation come upon us than two questions arise, in this order. (1) Will it take my job? (2) Will it create jobs? Note: fear of change precedes acceptance of change. It was that way when the cotton gin and the reaper changed agriculture in the 1790s, when fossil oil replaced…
By Eli Amdur (Also published in The Record) Suppose you and I are standing high atop a gorge – say, 250 feet above the white-water rapids raging below – and there’s a new bridge spanning the gorge, made of wooden slats and thick rope. The bridge, wet and slick from a tropical storm, sways in…
Add the American job market of 2021-2022, which has not only put on a show of force never previously seen; it’s sustained that performance for the 20th consecutive month, as of the August jobs report released September 2 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It’s the stuff on which American legend (historic is built:…
Given the events since mid-June alone – absolutely shocking revelations from the January 6 Committee, the Dow’s bumpy ride, Putin blowing up shopping malls, monkeypox – let alone this already-cuckoo mid-term election year, consider this column (following my previous two) to be that same directive. Metaphorically, this is your captain speaking, and I’m saying…
By Eli Amdur Embarking upon the second half of this incredibly momentous year, one that follows an even more momentous one – in fact, the greatest our job market has ever seen – I’m going out on a limb to predict that we’re approaching a distinctly critical juncture. As incredibly powerful as the…
By Eli Amdur “Out of mortal imagination comes a dream of something new, something better, something yet to happen in the future.” – Thomas Cahill, Historian and Author After 75 years navigating my way around this planet, 19 years writing this Career Coach column, publishing my 1,000th article – and reaching all three milestones at…
By Eli Amdur As only fate could arrange, I am reaching three momentous milestones – all at precisely the same time. Together, they offer a powerful lesson – if you’re open to look for it – most cogently expressed by Henry David Thoreau. It’s full of optimism, hope, and reason for self-referential thought. The…