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Brent Orrell

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 11, 2026
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Top 500K sites
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Brent Orrell

    10 Career Rules for College Freshmen (opens the original)

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    You just started college. Congratulations, you are now in charge of your own future, facing the question of how you will invest a chunk of time and significant money getting ready for the long haul of adult life. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has some thoughts. Its new projections put job growth at 5.9 million over the next decade, roughly a third of the 16.7 million jobs added over the previous 10 years. That slowdown is mostly demography: Fewer working-age people mean fewer jobs. But co

  2. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Brent Orrell

    The Ebb and Flow (and Ebb) of Entry-Level Work (opens the original)

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    Released last month, Google’s AI and Economy ATLAS sorts 14.6 million Gemini conversations into jobs and associated tasks. The headline is reassuring: AI is assisting people, not replacing them. Its findings on the role of expertise may contradict this hopeful analysis and tell us something very different about the future of work, especially at the entry level. A little background on how jobs and tasks get sorted is in order before launching into analysis. The U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET da

  3. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Brent Orrell

    Does More Pay Equal a Better Job? (opens the original)

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    A new Bureau of Labor Statistics Monthly Labor Review helps clarify the relationship between pay and job satisfaction. The take-home message is a resounding, “It depends.” Using Federal Reserve survey data on workers who changed jobs between 2021 and 2023, the report finds that changes in pay and benefits alone don’t always improve happiness on the job. The survey asked more than 2,500 job changers whether five characteristics, pay and benefits, advancement opportunities, interest in the work, p

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