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Blue-Collar, White-Collar, and Now… New-Collar? Why It’s Time to Rethink How We Hire

February 8, 2025

Once upon a time, the working world was neatly divided into two categories: white-collar jobs, where you needed a fancy degree and a love for spreadsheets, and blue-collar jobs, where you got your hands dirty and kept the world running. But the job market doesn’t do neat anymore—it’s messy, fast-moving, and changing by the second.…

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Is 40 Too Old for the Workplace? 50? 60? 70?

September 27, 2019

Why Employers Should Employ Mature Workers Is age discrimination a real thing? And if so, how should people in the workplace address it? As an HR professional, I often hear this question from job seekers, but it is something that employers and HR professionals should consider carefully as well. Once an employer has at least…

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