By Eli Amdur This is the greatest job market we’ve ever had. While we’re at it, let’s add a few adjectives: strongest, most consistent, most robust, most resilient, most inclusive, and so on. And you don’t have to worry about engaging in hyperbole. This job market is – and has been for the past four…
“Do I really need a résumé anymore?” With AI powering more and more applicant tracking systems (ATSs), with LinkedIn approaching one billion users, and with public records becoming increasingly ubiquitous and accessible, that question of résumé relevance is rolling off the lips of an alarming number of job seekers on a rapidly increasing basis. Says…
B y Eli Amdur Leadership exists on three levels: personal, organizational, and global – and we achieve them in that order. We cannot lead others unless we first lead our own lives with some sense of order, perspective, connectedness, and purpose. That axiom underpinned all my teaching (two graduate leadership courses, 15 years) and leadership…
By Eli Amdur Applicant Tracking Systems. Everybody hates them, including most of the people who use them to hire everybody else. They’re counterintuitive, they prevent interpersonal interaction, and nobody can say how many good hires weren’t made as a result. But they’ve outlasted our resistance, and we live with them, much to our chagrin. As…
By Eli Amdur It was late 1995 – 29 years ago – and I had just taken over as the head of sales and marketing of a small New York City-based provider of office technology training. Our solutions were delivered on media but we were launching an initiative to transform to on-line. I was not…
10 Sectors Where A.I. Will Add – Not Eliminate – Jobs By Eli Amdur In the midst of all the hubbub about A,I. eliminating jobs – tens of millions of them around the globe, as the frenzied panic has it – lies the simple truth that A,I. will have three major effects on jobs: Yes,…
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:…
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…