Where the jobs are and the skills you need to find one
Kim Komando Today
WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc
4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This year marked a huge shift in the economy, the workforce and the ways we work. Whether you work for someone else or own your own company, you have to know where we’re headed and the skills that will pay the bills in 2021. In this Best Of episode, Kim talks with LinkedIn’s Principal Economist, Dr. Guy Berger. They dive into this changing world to tell you where the jobs are and what you need to know to get one.
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| 0:32.3 | It's 2020. I know. We'd all like to do a control, alt delete, and reboot. The economy's bad. |
| 0:40.4 | COVID and mass have become political. So many people are out of work. Our elderly and vulnerable are |
| 0:46.1 | feeling removed from society. So many businesses are folding. Social distancing and curbside pickup are |
| 0:51.7 | now part of our lexicon. Parents are homeschooling their kids and realizing that the kids' teachers lied when |
| 0:56.8 | they said that the kids were a pleasure to have in class. |
| 0:59.9 | Things may never go back to normal, whatever normal ends up being once we have a vaccine |
| 1:04.0 | for the coronavirus. |
| 1:05.7 | But there are a few silver linings. |
| 1:08.3 | Schedules aren't as crazy as they used to be. |
| 1:10.6 | No more business trips for parents or |
| 1:12.4 | late nights or weekends at the office. Kids, they're not over-scheduled with soccer, piano lessons, |
| 1:18.0 | scouts, clubs, volunteer work, and other activities so that they can get into a great college |
| 1:22.7 | someday. And families are just spending a lot of time together and getting to know each other better. |
| 1:28.5 | It's also a time when so many of us are reflecting upon what it means to be a working professional, what it means to be in business. |
| 1:36.5 | Now, I have to tell you, I used to think that it wasn't really possible for us to run a national radio network with everyone working from home. |
| 1:43.8 | I'll tell you, I was wrong. I was so |
| 1:45.8 | very wrong. We've been doing just this since we all started working from home at Westar in March of |
| 1:51.9 | 2020. And we are in the middle of a fundamental shift in our workforce. So whether you work for someone |
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