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Highlights from 10 Year projections for jobs movement from the U.S. bureau of labour statistics #automation #AI #healthcare

• Healthcare practitioner jobs particularly Caring type roles to increase exponentially.

• Lots of high paying and low paying jobs created & mid paying jobs reducing.

• Automation won’t happen as quickly as the hype predicts.

• Cities to be the winners, while regional & rural jobs fall dramatically

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.nr0.htm?utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=interesting-report-from-the-bls.-employm

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Here’s What’s Wrong with LinkedIn

In case you missed it, LinkedIn had a really, really bad earnings report recently. How bad? The once highflying stock has plunged to around $100-a-share from $195.

Growth has stalled in a major way. From 114 percent in 2010 to 35 percent in 2015. And the future looks even bleaker, with the company projecting growth in the 20 percent ballpark for 2016.

Ouch! So what the hell is happening. I have a few thoughts.

One social network to rule them all. Facebook is simply sucking all the air our of social media. They’re a bullet train that Google couldn’t even slow. How does LinkedIn stand a chance?

Engagement gap. Let’s by honest, LinkedIn is still a place where recruiters and sales people predominantly play. The Average Joe has little incentive to visit on any regular basis.

Shitty ad platform. Similarly to how Google has sucked out all the search marketing dollars from everyone else, Facebook is doing the same. It also doesn’t help that LinkedIn advertising is significantly more expensive than Facebook. It’s also not very easy to use.

Mobile. Facebook stock started to take-off once they had “figured out mobile.” LinkedIn, in contrast, still seems to be mired in throwing stuff at the wall. Pulse isn’t doing the trick. Their job search app doesn’t set the bar any higher than the competition, and the main app just feels like it’s searching for that sweet spot. What do you mean I can’t upload video, and why aren’t hashtags hot linked?

News as a dedicated app isn’t working. LinkedIn has gone knees deep in the user-generated content game. This might be great for SEO, but it doesn’t seem to work on mobile. Why? As Jason Calacanis recently said, “News apps failed because social networks succeeded. People want to get their news filtered through their social network. It’s just easier and more fun to click on news links your friends are sharing than to open a separate app.”

The algorithm. If you post crap on Facebook, it gets filtered out by their algorithm and no ones sees it. If you share engaging content on Facebook, it rises to the top and is seen by lots of folks. LinkedIn hasn’t figured this out, so too much junk clutters its news feed. Twitter has a similar challenge, and is trying hard to fix it.

Kicking developers in the groin. Having people develop applications on your platform is historically a great thing. Facebook Connect, for example, has enabled apps like Tinder and Words with Friends to thrive. When platforms screw over developers, it rarely turns out well. Similarly to how Twitter has ticked-off developers over the years, so has LinkedIn. As a result, burned developers abandon the platform and head to Facebook or other platforms they trust more.

Jobs. LinkedIn continues to avoid becoming a real place to find jobs. As such, Indeed has filled that void, especially in the apps game. I can’t even search jobs from their main app. There’s also a real opportunity for LinkedIn to be the ATS-of-choice for business large and small, but they seem uninterested.

Don’t get me wrong. LinkedIn isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. As a recruiter recently reminded me, “LinkedIn is a gift from God.” Many sales people I know would agree.

But in the almighty world of Wall Street and the importance of growth, LinkedIn finds itself in quite a pickle. A pickle, it turns out, that’s mostly being enjoyed by Mark Zuckerberg.

talentsourcerer

As a recruiter I agree completely, it's very simple, LinkedIn should stop masquerading as a social media site and do what it was meant to do connect business people and find people jobs. Funnily enough, instead of reaching out to agency recruiters they have slapped them in the face, thinking that corporate in house recruiters were their most important target audience.

David McWilliams is only half wrong !

Reading @davidmcw illiams in today’s @independent_ie I am delighted to see him call for a powerful mayor for my home city of Dublin. Rudy Giuliani has shown in New York that a strong mayor can change the culture direction and even moral fibre of a city. However I believe he is mistaken in his view that the workers for multinationals want to cluster together only in Dublin after they arrive here from foreign shores. In a survey of 300 multilingual jobseekers based both internationally and already arrived in Ireland carried out by FRS Recruitment over 50% of respondents said that location was their least important consideration when choosing a job, with the job itself , the employer and salary being more important considerations. In fact more respondents 28% would prefer to be based in a large town than a city 25%. It has been my experience generally in recruiting international candidates that once they are getting the type of role they want with a good company and good pay they don’t really mind where they are based. Galway and Cork have proven this , with a relatively high level of FDI in the last number of years. If we look at an individual case of a company like Pramerica locating its offshore development arm for their U.S. insurance operation in Letterkenny,where they now employ nearly 1000 hi tech employees it shows the “if you build it they will come” scenario in action. The IDA must press on with their new strategy to attract companies to locations outside of Dublin as the “heat” created by the Dublin hub ( as Mr McWilliams describes it ) only heats as far as the borders with Kildare , Wicklow and Meath and the BMW region in particular needs some turf put on its economic fire.

Fizzy

@clglaois Laois Scor Na Nóg took place in Camross hall on Saturday 16th October. Winners on the night & going forward to the Leinster Final in @Fingallians Swords Dublin on Sunday 15th December were : Figure Dancing : Annanough Storytelling : Èabha Dowling McDonald Kyle Instrumental Music : Borris Kilcotton ( Maeve , Ellen & David Scott ) Solo Singing : Molly Donnery Camross Novelty Act : Clonaslee Ballad Group : Camross ( Katie Kilmartin, Conor Kilmartin , Maggie Houlihan , Dervla Breslin , Dara Ward ) Set Dancing : Camross ( Michelle Lalor , Patricia Lalor , Caoimhe Ryan, Grace Donnery , Aoife Collier , Maggie Houlihan , Kirsten Keenan , Doireann Tiernan ) Medals & trophies were presented by Laois hurling stars @keenanzane & Ciaran Collier

Spent 15 mins at the architectural masterpiece Abbeyleix library yesterday.

@Movember promo from #websumit

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@movember at @websumithq

Wow ! Developer stage @websummithq @denon #websummit

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The #NASDAQ opening bell from Dublins #websummit

New media & old at the #websummit

Size is important when it comes to modern art galleries and @Mass_moca is big at over 100,000 sq ft which allows the artists scale. The modern art gallery which lies on the border of New York & Massachusetts in the Berkshire hills is housed in an old textiles factory. Xu bing's Phoenix probably couldn't "live" in any other gallery in the world , it might fit but the effect would be nowhere near as explosive and Sol Lewhit's work couldnt elevate across 3 floors

#art #massachusetts

Wow ! Empire State Aero Sciences museum in Schenectady New York, Mig used in Top Gun, F14 Tomcat & a rare Scimitar just some of the highlights for $8 , but biggest highlight was the off the cuff info from Vietnam Veteran ; John ( Polska : ) who was able to give us the lowdown on every planes history ,Priceless