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How Much Do Project Managers Make in 2026? Real Salary Data and Career Paths

Project managers earn a median near $102,320 a year across industries. See how the PMP, sector and budget authority move project management pay in 2026.

September 8, 2026Read Article →

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Hiring

Kia Will Test Graduate Applicants on How Well They Work With AI

Kia opens its biggest graduate intake in three years on 15 September, adding an industry first, a scored assessment of how candidates solve problems using AI.

September 8, 2026Read Article →

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Hiring

Uniqlo Opens Entry Level Management Hiring at a 53 Million Won Starting Salary

Uniqlo opened its graduate management intake with a published 53 million won starting salary, while entry level roles vanish almost everywhere else.

September 8, 2026Read Article →

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Layoffs

550 Campbell's Office Roles Are Gone and Early Retirement Did Most of the Cutting

Campbell's cut more than 550 salaried roles, about 13 percent, using early retirement and layoffs. The voluntary route carries rights most people sign away.

September 8, 2026Read Article →

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Salary

Shop Floor Staff Lose Their Equal Pay Payout as the Appeal Tribunal Sides With Next

More than 3,500 Next store workers, mostly women, were in line for 30 million pounds. The Employment Appeal Tribunal has just overturned the basic pay ruling.

September 8, 2026Read Article →

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Interview

Companies Are Turning Job Interviews Into Live Competitions and How to Win One

More employers hire through pitch contests instead of interviews. Here is what assessors actually score and how to prepare for a format you cannot rehearse.

September 8, 2026Read Article →

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AI Erased 40,000 Online Writing Jobs in Nairobi and What It Warns Every Gig Worker

Up to 40,000 Nairobi writers made a living on overseas student essays. Two years after ChatGPT the industry is close to gone, and the pattern repeats elsewhere.

September 8, 2026Read Article →

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1 in 3 Workers Say AI Has Them Considering a Different Industry

A survey of 2,500 knowledge workers found 33 percent are considering changing industries because of AI, rising to 46 percent among C-level executives.

September 7, 2026Read Article →

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Skills

VMware Skills Are Getting Funded Again Even as the Occupation Shrinks

Kyndryl and Broadcom are funding VMware Cloud Foundation training for several thousand consultants as enterprises move workloads back on premises.

September 7, 2026Read Article →

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Education

Universities Are Launching AI Degrees This Fall and Graduates Are Asking What They Buy

A wave of universities open AI bachelor's degrees this autumn, while recent graduate unemployment sits at 5.6 percent against 4.1 percent overall.

September 7, 2026Read Article →

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Junior Bankers at UBS Must Now Prove They Can Use AI to Get Hired

UBS will require graduates and interns to demonstrate AI skills before hiring them into global banking and markets, one of the first banks to do it.

September 7, 2026Read Article →

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Career

The Eight Hour Workday Never Delivered Eight Hours of Work

The average US private workweek is 34.4 hours and real hourly pay fell 3.3 percent last quarter. The eight hour day measures presence, not output at all.

September 4, 2026Read Article →

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