But rather than waiting for the right job opportunity to come along, some young people are taking matters into their own hands—and turning to entrepreneurship. New data shared exclusively with Fortune by GoDaddy finds that microbusiness activity is growing across college communities nationwide, with several smaller university towns emerging as particularly strong entrepreneurial hubs. Stanford,
Gen Z is entering a job market being turned upside down by AI—and according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the disruption is only getting started. But he thinks ambitious young workers have a chance to come out ahead if they’re willing to ditch the playbook and bet on what’s next. “It’s totally true that huge
The job market is getting harder to break into. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported employers added just 29,000 jobs last month, below economists’ expectations of 90,000, and more than a quarter (27.1%) of unemployed Americans have been out of work for six months or longer. Now, LinkedIn—the platform built to help users network and
Indeed CEO Deko Idekoba says he thinks AI is a “bit too slow” to change the labor market. That may sound counterintuitive amid warnings that AI is wiping out entry-level jobs and disrupting white-collar work. But Idekoba is concerned with how uneven AI’s impact is: While the new tech advances rapidly through office work, skilled
Amanda Cullen is just a few years away from entering a workforce in which AI is becoming harder to avoid. But in most of her classes at North Carolina State University, the rule has been not to use it at all. “Most of my classes have been no AI,” said Cullen, a first-year who expects
The U.S. labor market is bracing for a decade of slower overall growth, but a handful of industries and occupations are set to expand at a breakneck pace, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. From 2025 to 2035, total employment will edge up by 5.9 million jobs to 176.2 million, representing growth of just
