🎉 The great hiring sprint

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The Great Hiring Sprint

Last week, The White House Office of the National Cyber Director launched a program to help fill the gap of about 500,000 available cybersecurity jobs across the country.

No that’s not a typo.

Half a million jobs are in such urgent demand that the White House is launching a program to help fill the openings.

You may think this automatically doesn’t apply to anyone without a computer science or engineering background, but that’s not true. According to the official White House website, the program’s major emphasis is to reach job candidates without traditional qualifications.

Service for America, a program developed alongside the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management, is a recruitment and hiring push that will help connect Americans with available jobs in cybersecurity, technology, and artificial intelligence.

In July of last year, The White House unveiled a national cyber workforce and education strategy, so this certainly seems to be a priority for top government officials. Kinda spooky if you think about it, but at least it means more opportunities to land high-paying jobs with great job security!

The White House posted links to job recruitment fairs and related programs taking place through mid-October. Additional information about federal internships, apprenticeship programs, and other information about federal jobs is also available.

To start, job seekers should make an account on JobParty.AI for only $19 and ask the career coach to create a path for them to land a high-paying job in cybersecurity.

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Leaders are Faking Productivity?

Faking work activity… We’ve all been guilty of it at some point. In fact, the bosses may be the most guilty of anyone, according to a new report from Workhuman.

According to the report, 38% of C-suite executives and 37% of all managers admitted to faking activity at work to seem more productive.

Examples of faking activity included mouse jiggling, falsifying timesheets, leaving apps like Slack or Teams open to appear “active,” etc.

Experts at Workhuman say it’s likely an issue of toxic culture in the workplace that starts from the top. 69% of managers that admitted to faking activity at work said it’s a common problem on their team, while only 37% of managers that don’t fake activity found it to be an issue.

The report ended with some recommendations for companies dealing with the problem of employees and managers faking activity; focus on quality of work and results over quantity of hours spent behind a desk.

What an ingenious suggestion that surely no one has ever thought of before.

If anymore proof was needed that this sort of culture starts at the top, 61% of respondents who said their managers are very involved said they are also always engaged at work.

That number drops to just 26% when managers have little to no involvement in their employees work.

More than half of the respondents (54%) said that when they’re not engaged, their coping strategy is to do the bare minimum to get through the day and complete what they can.

Slackers!

JOBS REPORT

Jolts, Jolts, Jolts

The most recent Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) Report just dropped. You can check out the whole thing on the Indeed Hiring Lab, but it’s not great news.

Here are all the key points from the report released last week:

• Job openings fell in July to 7.7 million, with the ratio of job openings to unemployed workers falling below its 2019 average.

• Job openings are still up 7% from their January 2020 levels

• Hiring and quitting ticked up in July, but those increases are likely bounce-backs from low readings in June. Both series are still trending downward.

• Fortunately, layoffs remain low. But unemployment is likely to keep drifting higher if hiring remains depressed.

• Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the labor market is now past the point of moderation and trending toward deterioration.

• 80% of the decline in openings came from the healthcare and social assistance sectors, so the overall decline may not be as bad as the face value suggests.

• The July hires rate of 3.5% is similar to the level from over a decade ago when the labor market was still recovering from the Great Recession.

• With the Fed on the verge of cutting rates, data like this suggest that the pace of cutting is likely to be quick.

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