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These are the jobs and skills that will drive the recovery

A conversation with Matt Sigelman, CEO, Burning Glass Technologies
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In this episode of Work in Progress, Matt Sigelman, the CEO of Burning Glass, joins me to discuss which jobs and skills will dominate the post-pandemic economic recovery, one he says will create as many as 18 million jobs over the next five years.

Burning Glass is an analytics company that provides real-time data on job growth, skills in demand, and labor market trends. In its new report, After the Storm: The Jobs and Skills that will Drive the Post-Pandemic Recovery, Burning Glass uses its database of more than one billion current and past job postings to identify societal megatrends it sees at play and shaping the kind of work we’ll be doing in the coming years.

According to Sigelman, each megatrend is creating an identifiable economy:

  • The Readiness Economy
  • The Logistics Economy
  • The Green Economy
  • The Automation Economy
  • The Remote Economy

In the podcast, Sigelman and I go into details on what forces are driving each of these economies—drilling down on specifics about the jobs that will be most in-demand and the skills you will need to get one of these millions of jobs.

“We see that those five economies are going to grow about twice as fast as the market overall. One in six jobs across the whole job market will wind up being in one of those five economies.”

He says some of the jobs already exist, but are changing, as are skills needed to do them. Some of them don’t exist yet, but are being created out of necessity.

I ask Sigelman to share his thoughts on whether we have enough talent to fill the demand that he and Burning Glass see in the coming years?

“The answer is clearly no. When we think about creating 18 million jobs in five years, that’s a huge challenge,” says Sigelman.

“For us to be able to rise to the level of growth that those economies demand, we’re going to need to really rethink how we bring talent to the market. And that’s a challenge not only for education, not only for government, but it’s a significant challenge for companies who, of course, drive our economy today.”

You can hear more from Sigelman on what he sees as not only a challenge but a huge opportunity for workers and jobseekers in the podcast. Listen here, or download and listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Download the transcript for this podcast here.

Episode 172: Matt Sigelman, CEO, Burning Glass Technologies
Host: Ramona Schindelheim, Editor-in-Chief, WorkingNation
Producer: Larry Buhl
Executive Producers: Joan Lynch, Melissa Panzer, and Ramona Schindelheim
Music: Composed by Lee Rosevere and licensed under CC by 4.0.

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Dana Beth Ardi

Executive Committee

Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

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Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.