Workforce Trends

The Two-Year Warning: What the Father of AGI Just Said About Your Workforce

Ben Goertzel believes human-level AI is two to three years away. The skills that survive it aren’t the ones most organizations are developing. Ben Goertzel doesn’t traffic in hedged projections. The computer scientist credited with coining the term artificial general intelligence has spent decades building toward it, and in an interview published this week he […]

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The Bedside Manner Premium: Why Healthcare’s Highest-Paid Skills Have Nothing to Do With Medicine

Salary data from 181,774 job postings reveals that conflict resolution and strategic planning are outearning ACLS certification and telehealth expertise — and the gap is widening. When healthcare administrators think about which skills justify the biggest salaries, they typically look to clinical credentials, specialized certifications, or hard-won technical proficiencies. The market, it turns out, has

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When Hospitals Hire, They’re Looking for Customer Service

Analysis of more than 200,000 job postings finds customer service co-occurring with nursing and patient care at rates that suggest the healthcare industry has quietly rewritten its hiring profile. The American job market is running on one engine. Healthcare added 693,000 positions in 2025 — and without it, the broader economy would have shed more

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Education Employers Don’t Want Leaders. They Want Operators.

A skill intelligence analysis of more than 210,000 job postings reveals that time management — not vision — is the competency most reliably demanded alongside leadership in education hiring. The word “leader” appears in education job postings with the confidence of a mission statement. It signals vision, accountability, culture. But buried in the data behind

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The Skills Pivot: Why the Workers Who Thrive in the AI Economy Already Know Something You Don’t

I remember watching a senior analyst at a Fortune 500 firm get “restructured out” after 22 years. His replacement wasn’t another analyst. It was a dashboard. The irony? He had spent two decades mastering a single software suite that the company now automated away in a quarterly budget cycle. He had confused loyalty to a

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