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The workers' uniforms are smudged with stains earned underneath a car, wrench in hand. Their repair garage teems with an array of inoperable vehicles and twisted metal. One car's wheels have been removed; another sports a mangled fender. Here, the labor is free - and the mechanics are earning college credits. Los Angeles Trade-Technical College offers the largest community college auto repair program in the region, turning out graduates ready to work at dealership service centers, independent shops and the fleet departments of municipalities,

It hasn't been the easiest year to land a job, and in 2026, the employment landscape will likely remain just as volatile. Managers will be grappling with how to deploy AI in their businesses and what skills they really need on the team to bring about efficiencies. Companies will also be wrangling with policy headwinds such as tariffs and the normalization of the base rate, as well as how consumer spending will hold up through the rest of the year.

Mona Mourshed has spent over a decade working on the future of work. As CEO of Generation, one of the world's largest employment nonprofits, operating in 17 countries and helping more than 140,000 people land jobs, she has a front-row seat to how companies are grappling with artificial intelligence. Her takeaway: Many companies are rolling out AI without a clear strategy.

The retailer will spend £70 million of their Levy Share to create around 7,000 apprenticeships over the next five years. The Co-op scheme allows levy paying employees to transfer unused apprenticeship funds for charities and any community organisations. Claire Costello, chief people and inclusion officer at Co-op, said: "We launched Co-op Levy Share to unlock unused levy funds and turn waste into opportunity. "Four years on, alongside our contributing partners, we've already channelled £40 million into thousands of life-changing apprenticeships, and today we're going further, committing £70 million to create 7,000 apprenticeships by 2030."

This is a re-issue of a long-standing R25 program announcement that aims to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. To address this goal, this concept is specifically focused on courses for skills development. Courses are expected to facilitate the development of a cadre of investigators with the requisite scientific research skills to advance the mission of NIMH.

"We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,"

For five years, the federal government has been under a legal mandate to train acquisition professionals in using and buying artificial intelligence (AI). During that time, federal spending on AI has risen precipitously. As AI technology accelerates into the future, buying relevant, rapidly evolving capabilities requires foresight and understanding. Eighty percent of chief procurement officers (CPOs) surveyed plan to deploy AI tools for spend analytics, contract management and supplier selection over the next three years. Leaders are expecting that procurement operations will be radically better and faster than they are today.

Plumbers, electricians and welders are among 31 priority occupations that are "particularly in demand", with employment in renewable, wind, solar and nuclear expected to double to 860,000 in five years, ministers have said. Speaking on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said thousands of jobs were needed to develop Britain's clean energy sector to "get bills down for good".

Walmart on Thursday hosted more than 300 workplace experts and representatives from other companies participating in the Skills-First Workforce Initiative, a project to develop and fill stable jobs based on what people know how to do instead of whether they attended college. The retailer already has launched its own employee trainingand certification programs to meet Walmart's need for truck drivers and maintenance technicians, two roles for which U.S. companies say they can't recruit fast enough as experienced tradespeople retire.

Jobs and Skills Australia's report indicates that generative AI will significantly automate routine clerical jobs while enhancing roles requiring high skill levels.

"We're not just doing good for the environment. We're creating paid work and valuable job experience," said Renee Ruhl, Intervine program director. "This is really a social enterprise, because..."