{"id":1742,"date":"2008-09-30T07:31:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T12:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/09\/return-of-middle-management\/"},"modified":"2008-09-30T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T11:35:11","slug":"return-of-middle-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/09\/return-of-middle-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Return Of Middle Management?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a trend I have not heard of recently (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports about <strong>45 percent of U.S. job openings through 2014<\/strong> will be in the hidden middle-level job sector, most of them technical jobs that cannot be outsourced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mid-level means middle management, right?\u00a0 Ok, maybe not.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I still have not heard of this trend until reading this short excerpt from The Career News newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>And one last piece of information to offset a popular misnomer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charted on a graph, the image of a robust technician economy belies a popular misconception. Most assume the job market is heaviest on the low-end of the spectrum and the high-end. The Bureau of Labor statistics says 33 percent of job openings involve occupations requiring a high degree of skills, while 22 percent of the jobs are in the low-skill category, the report said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know, &#8220;high degree of skill&#8221; is a fuzzy phrase.\u00a0 The article refers to this type of job as requiring more than a high school diploma but less than a college degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a trend I have not heard of recently (emphasis mine): The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports about 45 percent of U.S. job openings through 2014 will be in the hidden middle-level job sector, most of them technical jobs that cannot be outsourced. Mid-level means middle management, right?\u00a0 Ok, maybe not.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I still have not heard of this trend until reading this short excerpt from The Career News newsletter. And one last piece of information to offset a popular misnomer: Charted on a graph, the image of a robust technician economy belies a popular misconception. Most assume the job market is heaviest on the low-end of the spectrum&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/09\/return-of-middle-management\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,2,5],"tags":[899,50,516,1025,1026,1027],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-s6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->