EMPLOYMENT
LinkedIn reveals top in-demand jobs for 2021
Online employment website LinkedIn is revealing some of the top in-demand jobs in 2021. A new report shows the fastest growing jobs over the past 12 months and which ones have the most jobs available. This includes different kinds of nursing professionals, including a registered nurse, certified nursing assistant, and nurse practitioners. LinkedIn says you can earn between $73,000 and $111,000 a year depending on how much education and experience you have. AdFinally, the most in demand jobs according to LinkedIn are frontline e-commerce workers.
Women are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, research shows
And although everyone has been impacted by the pandemic, women seem to be shouldering the burden more than their male counterparts. The COVID pandemic has led to an economic, mental health, and childcare crisis, and now research is showing women are bearing the brunt of it. In fact, about one-third of working moms in two-parent households reported they were the only ones providing care for their children. And some new research suggests women may be choosing to leave their jobs due to childcare concerns or other challenges. In a recent study by lean in, one in four women reported that they were considering downsizing their careers or leaving the workforce as a result of the COVID crisis.
Here are the best ways to get your resume in the hiring manager’s hand
It may not be that you weren’t qualified, but that your resume wasn’t qualified, according to the applicant tracking system, or ATS. Here’s how to get your resume in the hiring manager’s hands. An applicant tracking system, or ATS, is software that weeds out job candidates that either don’t fit the description or had an unreadable resume. However, don’t include too much formatting. If you want to check to see if your resume is readable to an ATS, go to www.topresume.com/resume-review for a free analysis.
Texas’ unemployment system is confusing and frustrating. Here’s how to navigate it.
Regular unemployment benefits:This traditional unemployment program provides assistance for up to 26 weeks per year. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA):If you apply for unemployment and the workforce commission finds that you do not qualify for regular benefits, the agency should automatically consider you for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and enroll you if you are found eligible. Here, under the claim information section, you will see your claim type listed as: Regular Unemployment Benefits, Disaster Unemployment Benefits (for now, this is the same as Pandemic Unemployment Assistance), or Temporary Unemployment Benefits (extensions). If you have exhausted your Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits and have not recently been on regular unemployment, you don’t qualify for any kind of extension. Unless Congress takes action to extend the pandemic unemployment benefits in the CARES Act, two programs will expire after Dec. 26: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, or PEUC.