“Blurring Lines” Report Outlines Growing Demand for Workers Who Can Combine...
NEW YORK – July 16, 2015 – An increasingly technology driven economy is creating a new category of “hybrid jobs” that combine programming skills along with abilities in design, data analysis and...
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Have Tech and Marketing Skills? Here’s Where the (Hybrid) Jobs Are
The combination of programming skills with design, data analysis, and marketing may be the killer app for job hunters—but where should job seekers be looking? As part of our “Blurred Lines” report with...
View ArticleInfographic: The Geography of Cybersecurity Jobs, 2015
In the latest edition of our annual report on the cybersecurity job market, we found that surging demand was making these jobs hard to fill and giving qualified workers a significant salary premium...
View ArticleIn Light of Labor Day: Five Trends in the Job Market
This Labor Day, we thought it would be a good idea to step back and look at the big picture in the job market. The employment impact of recent upheavals in China and the global stock markets still...
View ArticleSee You at the Close-It Summit
The Close-It Summit is the premier event for those trying to use new technologies to close the skills gap in the American workforce. Burning Glass will be participating in multiple events at and around...
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Why the STEM Gap is Bigger Than You Think
Are we underestimating the scope of the nation’s challenge in STEM education? The generally accepted definition of the problem is already severe. At today’s Global STEM Talent Summit in Washington,...
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Pittsburgh: A Potential Laboratory for a New Job Market
If you want a glimpse of the challenges facing the American workforce—and some of the potential solutions—Pittsburgh is a good place to start. Yesterday, I was there for the launch of Inflection Point:...
View ArticleVideo: Hybrid Education for Hybrid Jobs
The latest trend in the job market is the rise of hybrid jobs, combining technical skills with talents in design, marketing, and data analysis. These jobs pay well and there’s a lot of opportunity for...
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Australian Report Shows the Global Challenge of ‘Soft Skills’
A new Australian study using Burning Glass data provides more evidence of a worldwide shift in the nature of work—and reinforces the value of soft or baseline skills in the job market. The report...
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OK, You’re Creative: Five Skill Sets You’ll Need in the Job Market
Tweet A lot of people think of creativity as an end in itself. Unfortunately for starving artists everywhere, employers don’t. Employers do want creativity. They ask for it all the time in job...
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Specific Skills Make Liberal Arts Graduates More Marketable
Tweet We’ve had a lot of interest in our liberal arts research following today’s story in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and CEO Matthew Sigelman’s oped for Inside Higher Ed. Our research has...
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The Bigger the Salary, the More Likely You’ll Need to Learn Coding
Tweet Digital skills have already conquered the workforce, with nearly 8 in 10 middle-skill jobs identified as “digitally intensive.” But as you climb the income ladder, the nature of the computer...
View ArticleFive Careers Where Coding Skills Will Help You Get Ahead
Tweet There’s a big difference between using a computer and being able to program one. And in the modern workplace, more and more jobs are demanding coding—actually writing instructions for the...
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If Talent is Ready to Flee, then Maybe it’s Time to Plan
Tweet Every company says they worry about attracting and keeping talent—but based on a new MIT/Sloan Management Review survey, maybe they aren’t worrying enough. “Talent is ready to flee,” according...
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Mobile App Developers: The Model of the Modern Job Market?
One of the strongest trends Burning Glass has seen in the labor market recently has been the rise of the hybrid job: positions that mix-and-match skill sets from different fields. This is a sign of a...
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No College Degree? You Can Still Start a Career in IT
For students looking to enter careers in information technology, gaining a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field opens up the broadest range of options. But a B.A. is also a long,...
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Even Hedgehog Caretakers Need Digital Skills
Our job is keeping track of other people’s jobs, so when we saw the story in today’s Wall Street Journal about “hedgehog officers” in the UK, we had to go to our Labour Insight™ database and look it...
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Infographic: Data Science Jobs, by the Numbers
Big Data is having a huge impact on the economy, and in our latest research report, we quantify how the demand for data science and analytics (DAS) skills is reshaping the job market. From research to...
View ArticleVote for Our Proposals at SXSW and SXSWedu 2018
Everywhere there are new advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and data skills that promise to reshape the economy. But what does this mean for students and workers? How can human beings keep...
View ArticleDemand for Digital Marketing Skills Doubles
Four in 10 marketing job openings now call for digital marketing skills, and the number of postings calling for digital skills has nearly doubled in the last five years. Forrester Research has...
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