Blue-collar job openings have 'gone gangbusters'—workers aren’t finding them on LinkedIn

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Blue-collar job openings have ‘gone gangbusters’—workers aren’t finding them on LinkedIn (via CNBCMakeIt)

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He says that LinkedIn has been making intentional investments over the past couple of years to become more inclusive for all kinds of workers: "For example, if you are a fry cook and you come to LinkedIn, 'fry cook' should be available as a title for you to put on your profile." Currently, "Fry Cook," "Short Order Fry Cook" and "Fast Food Fry Cook" are all available as job titles on the platform.

Sonja Wiltz, a 54-year-old construction safety coordinator, says, "All the years I've been on LinkedIn, I've never gotten a job on there." "Perhaps this research is not seen as 'sexy'," they wrote. "This is a worrying trend in the design of technology — not only is it in a sense discriminatory , but also because it is ignoring a potentially large market."

from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, there have been over 270,000 job cuts, which is a 396% increase from the same period a year ago. Blue-collar work, which Wanamaker defines as work in the construction, oil, and gas sectors, does have a different cycle of hiring than white-collar industries. They are project-based and therefore, once a project is complete, workers must seek a new position.

 

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