Half the people hired into AI roles have no AI background
Half the people hired into AI roles right now have no AI background. If that logic holds for AI, it should hold for the trades too — the skills already exist; the pathway to use them doesn't.
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The UK Doesn't Need More Education. It Needs Better Pathways Into Work
One million young people are NEET. Employers across the skilled trades can't find workers. These aren't two problems — they're one labour market that's stopped connecting people to jobs.
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The Days of Going to College and Getting an Office Job Are Over
The CEO of the world's largest recruitment firm said it out loud. The data backs him up. Here's what it means for mid-career professionals in the UK.
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The Future of Work Should Be Built Around Skills, Not Status
The OECD published its Skills-First Labour Market report, calling for a labour market that places demonstrable skills at the centre of opportunity.
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What the Research Says About Why Tradespeople Stay
New research in the journal Kyklos finds that job satisfaction in the skilled trades is driven less by pay and more by occupational identity — the pride of seeing a job through from start to finish.
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UK's Skilled Trades Problem Isn't a Skills Shortage — It's a Status Problem
A new Skills England report confirms the UK's construction skills shortage is getting worse — but at the same time, NEET figures just hit a decade high. The real problem isn't a lack of people, it's a lack of respect for the trades.
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