It’s not your fault if you’re having a tough time right now. The job market is downright weird—employers say they can’t find qualified candidates, but our LinkedIn networks show us that thousands of highly skilled workers are sending out resume after resume without so much as a phone screen to show for it.
Even if you have a job, your paycheck doesn’t stretch nearly as far as it used to. Depending on your industry, you might also be feeling the squeeze from emerging technologies like ChatGPT and other AI tools that threaten to take your job or diminish your professional horizons.
To make matters more confusing, these same technologies make it easier than ever for bad actors to set themselves up as career influencer-coaches who will make all your problems go away for a small (OK, not-so-small) fee. It’s just really hard to know who to believe.
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