{"id":70239,"date":"2020-04-03T13:19:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=70239"},"modified":"2020-04-03T21:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T01:35:43","slug":"its-the-dawning-of-a-new-day-in-the-job-mmarket-heres-what-that-means-for-higher-ed-gallagher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/04\/03\/its-the-dawning-of-a-new-day-in-the-job-mmarket-heres-what-that-means-for-higher-ed-gallagher\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the dawning of a new day in the job market. Here\u2019s what that means for higher ed [Gallagher]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2020-04-03-it-s-the-dawning-of-a-new-day-in-the-job-market-here-s-what-that-means-for-higher-ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>It\u2019s the dawning of a new day in the job market. Here\u2019s what that means for higher ed<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by Sean Gallagher<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As we enter a recession, many experts believe that the unemployment rate will spike well into the double digits\u2014to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/490327-goldman-sachs-unemployment-to-hit-15-percent-quarterly-gdp-to-fall-34-percent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">15 percent according to Goldman Sachs<\/a>, or as high as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlouisfed.org\/on-the-economy\/2020\/march\/back-envelope-estimates-next-quarters-unemployment-rate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">32 percent according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis<\/a>. Whatever the exact figure, we\u2019ve gone quickly from nearly full employment to tens of millions of Americans being out of work in a transformative \u201c100-year flood.\u201d Hopefully, this economic disruption will be as short as possible \u2014but a shift of this magnitude will have both immediate and long-lasting implications for the higher education ecosystem in addition to the world of work itself.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAccording to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/gallup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">past opinion polls<\/a>\u00a0we\u2019ve conducted at Northeastern University, American workers recognize that lifelong learning is critical to staying prepared for these ongoing technology-related changes in the job market. Upskilling workers to compete in a more technology-driven job market\u2014and developing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polytechnicscanada.ca\/opinions\/robot-proof-what-joseph-aouns-latest-book-means-for-higher-education-in-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">human skills<\/a>\u00a0to augment or work alongside smart machines\u2014is now even more of an imperative.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>What jobs employers will be hiring for\u2014and what professional programs learners will be interested in pursuing\u2014will also inevitably be reshaped.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the dawning of a new day in the job market. Here\u2019s what that means for higher ed &#8212; from edsurge.com by Sean Gallagher Excerpts: As we enter a recession, many experts believe that the unemployment rate will spike well into the double digits\u2014to\u00a015 percent according to Goldman Sachs, or as high as\u00a032 percent according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,387,61,174,86,209,115,302,112,200,3,102,7,510,15,239,118,206,321,214,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-business","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-higher-education","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-lifelong-learning","category-new-business-models","category-training-corporate-universities","category-trends","category-united-states","category-universities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70248,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70239\/revisions\/70248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}