What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020

Employers’ main value/concern is risk.
Job-hunters’ main value/concern is time

Don’t kid yourself, employers don’t have all the power in the hiring game, but they do have an impressive amount. This explains why parts of the whole job-hunting system in this country will drive you nuts. It wasn’t built for you or me. It was built by and for them. And they live in a world different from yours and mine, inside their head

Don’t kid yourself, employers don’t have all the power in the hiring game, but they do have an impressive amount. This explains why parts of the whole job-hunting system in this country will drive you nuts. It wasn’t built for you or me. It was built by and for them. And they live in a world different from yours and mine, inside their head

You should assume that the employers’ world is like a foreign country; you must learn their language, and their customs, before you visit

And technology can reduce the drudgery of many jobs, opening the opportunity for more interesting and innovative jobs.9

But when you press the experts—as I have—as to what percentage of jobs they think will be completely replaced by technology, they predict that only 5 percent, or at worse 19 percent, of current jobs in the US will be replaced by robotics, technology, and computer programs