LinkedIn Analysis of the job market

Tech is shrinking due to the post-pandemic era and the spike in tech work that occurred during the brief era of remote work expansion (now being curtailed).

Information and media is shrinking because the media sector has had troubles for a long time. Since 2008, newsroom jobs at newspaper-heritage news services have gone down by -57%.

It seems odd to group tech, information and media jobs into one category but that is what our government does – it does not make much sense.

A side effect of a decline in newsroom jobs is a boom in content mills (digital media specialty sites) which has seen significant growth. These sites employ (mostly) freelancer writers hired to churn out content, designed to be friendly for click-bait headline titles. While some might be considered journalism, much of it is of the genre “Someone said something to someone and the Internet responds”, or “Employer told an employee this and people got mad” – emotionally laden click-bait designed to send eye-balls to pay per view advertisers.

Oddly, there is an increase in persons moving towards education jobs – even as numerous school districts across the U.S. are closing and merging schools due to declining enrollments (related especially to the sharp decline in the US fertility rate).