Ann Francis, after earning her MBA in 2023, has struggled to find human resources jobs, leading her to seek a new career in nursing. Despite $50,000 in student debt and the risk of eviction, she completed a six-week nurse training program and earned her certified nursing assistant license. This situation reflects a trend in the US labor market, where workers are moving towards sectors with more job growth, particularly healthcare, due to slowdowns in white-collar hiring and the diminishing returns of MBA degrees.
"I'm basically starting over - that's the part that bothers me," said Francis, who's in her 50s and based in the Northeast US. "But I have to do what I have to do to survive."
"I'm very confident the jobs are there," she said.
From February to May, private education and health services saw the strongest job growth of any sector.
In healthcare, jobs are especially plentiful at hospitals and in individual and family services.
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