Now Would Be a Good Time for a Career Tune-Up

I’m writing with two reasons you might want to get a status update on your job.

First, the gloomy one: There are signs the labor market is shifting into a lower gear globally. The US recently clocked the worst three months for job growth since the pandemic. Applications for US unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level since June. My colleague north of the border just wrote about how young Canadians are getting “ghosted” by potential employers at frustrating rates amid a deepening jobs crisis. And on the other side of the pond, Britons have been muddling through a labor market notching superlatives for all the wrong reasons.