Unemployment rates are still quite low. But they don’t tell the whole story. The face of joblessness has changed in recent years. Mid-career professionals, six-figure family breadwinners, are finding themselves laid off or downsized and seeing far fewer options than they expected. We’ll talk with some of them. Get some career coaching. And check in with a labor economist to understand what’s going on here.
This episode was produced by Blake Farmer.
Guests:
- Brett Kling, human resources information systems professional and job seeker
- Steve Jones, marketing and communications and job seeker
- Lynise Harris, professional executive coach and lead career coach at UpRise Nashville
- Lauren Kiproff-Downer, organizational development consultant at Perpara Organizational Development and facilitator of the career transitions group for Middle Tennessee SHRM
- Celeste Carruthers, professor and labor economist, University of Tennessee — Knoxville
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