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Jobless white-collar workers are finding it harder to return to the work force.
LMIC’s dashboard shows a precipitous drop in demand for occupational skills that a few years ago would be hard to imagine. Job openings for computer, software and web designers and developers, meanwhile, are down almost 18 per cent as of March 31.
Roles for auditors, accountants and investment professionals are also off by nearly 18 per cent. Human resources and business service professionals haven’t been spared; demand for their skills fell by 13 per cent.
Soft skills that so many white-collar workers have been told for years are critical to career progress appear less so now. Jobs listing problem-solving abilities have dropped by about 9 per cent and innovation by about 11, teamwork is down eight, leadership off seven and communication by six.
Abilities that once made the difference between being hired or passed over are losing relevance. Jobs calling for French-language skills? Down by roughly 13 per cent. Writing skills? About 11 per cent down, nearly the same as the fall in demand for Microsoft Excel skills.
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Hard out there for the white collar class.
 
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Boomers in my profession are seeing the writing on the wall and getting the fuck out while they can. I'm lucky if I have five years left.
 
Would you advise anyone to become a librarian at this point in time, or is the entire profession on the verge of extinction?
 
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@ex_libris: The reason I ask is that I know a well-meaning young person who is on the verge of taking courses in library science and I suspect that it's a waste of time, but I would never say anything unless I knew for certain (and goodness knows it mightn't make a difference anyway -- it's not as if the young ever listen to the old)
 
@ChevChelios
To sharpen research skills, sure. For a career...eh it depends. There will be libraries and stewards of collections but roles will evolve. The profession is becoming more instructional based than collections gatekeeper based, which is fine for what it is. Go to The Partnership job board, good window into the job market. I do NOT recommend public librarianship, at all.
 
How about the practice of law? You will always need some human lawyers to have privileged conversations, but curious to hear what Bay Street Big Law partners are predicting for the future of lawyers and big firms. I would not encourage any kids who are not legacy to go to law school.
 
I seen this quite bit of this within white collar specially if the simplified around controlled information input and output. Quite of few lawyers got caught with their pants down when LLM they use just made up some old case filings.
 
Who knew you can't grow an economy on sunny ways...

People will blame AI but in reality, it's a combination of many factors, mostly involving our shitty government. Too many regulations, impossible to deal with Native Indians and tax high of taxes. Things have got noticeably worse under Trudeau too. The last decade has been nothing but more and more bureaucracy (government regulations). This is having a big impact on reducing our productivity which reduces growth and leads to less jobs for everyone.
 
Hopefully, a bunch of those white collars are HR. The most usless and destructive fuckers I have ever seen.
 
The white collar world is a terrible place to work now. I was going to write a long post and go on and on about the reasons why, but I'm just too tired of it to bother. Every day I see jawdropping retardation and incompetence. Not sure if it has been an IQ drop from the shot, brainrot from phone use, the apathy that comes from seeing your earnings stolen by government taxation and bad policy, replacement by 3rd worlders or what... maybe a combination... but the corporate white collar world is no place for an ambitious young man.
 
Combination of doing the bare minimum to not get fired and people not caring about company loyalty anymore.
 
You still some remnant of loyalty still exist in smaller companies into late 2000s and early 2010s. Pretty sure that is dead now or those type of companies just gatekeep and fly below the radar.
 
Yeah, as a White collar worker the environment you're working in sucks big time. Women in the workforce was the beginning of the downfall for me (I've worked in all male offices and it's way better) but DEI all around killed it.

I'm actually looking to make a career move into a pure sales role where I can avoid working with anyone besides myself and hopefully, that'll be a lot better.
 
people say get into a trades those jobs are fucked too. where I get my car repaired all Indians now they do a good job mind you. Had a toilet installed just used Lowes install was a Indian did good job just had two sinks installed and 3 faucet used home deport install two Indians showed up. Person who called to conform appt Indian. girl who called and asked hey do you want two shut off values installed while they were there on the sinks Indian.
 
A friend of mine who was running a small subcontracting operation had to shut down recently, jeets have moved into his space and were undercutting him. He had a crew of ~5 guys who he was paying a living wage to; he was doing well for himself for little to no education but not fabulously rich or anything. He is now an employee for the larger company that he sub'd to... until they get put out by jeets working for peanuts and living 10 to a house.
 
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