Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jessi Streib is a sociology professor at Duke University. When he was a college student, Owen messaged over a hundred people to ...

Source: Photo by Yasmina H on Unsplash The threats of job cuts and layoffs have been looming for a while. We spent most of the past year hearing that the U.S. was headed toward a recession, dealing ...

Getting hired in your 50s, 60s or 70s isn't easy. Roughly one in five job seekers age 55 and older is long-term unemployed - looking for work for at least six months. The number of long-term job ...

Entering 2025, underlying the calm surface of the U.S. labor market were currents of anxiety, dissatisfaction, and stagnation. Companies were taking longer to fill open roles, and a growing numbers of ...

In a struggling job market where the scant job opportunities that do get posted use dubious AI tools to screen applicants, networking has become perhaps the only viable path to a job. Some desperate ...

Jon Stross has been building technology to help people get new jobs for over a decade, but he's not convinced today's hiring tools are all that effective. Stross is the president and co-founder of ...

I’m caught in the middle. With six years of experience in business tech, including tech support, business management, and IT project management, I find myself overqualified for entry-level positions ...