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Every entry-level role wants experience. The first year has to come from somewhere.
The biggest ladder around that snake: fellowships and scholarships. Then volunteering, building in public and short paid projects.
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Every entry-level role wants experience. The first year has to come from somewhere.
Side doors: skills-based volunteering, fellowships, building in public, short paid projects, real work while in school.
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Developers expected AI to make them 24% faster. Measured, they took 19% longer. They still believed they were 20% faster.
METR's 2025 trial, which METR now calls out of date.
metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-ear…
Domestic workers earn 53.3% of what other employees make each month. In 2019 it was 56.4%.
80 million workers. 77.2% women. 83.1% informal (ILO, 27 Oct).
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Three hiring lessons from the Social Change Career Podcast:
Apply early. Program staff read early and referred ones first (Nanako Tamaru).
Learn how the org is funded (Brad Smith).
Switching fields? Say so (Spencer Campbell).
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7 of 9 planetary boundaries are now crossed (Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2026). Friday's PCDN Career Digest covered who is building alternatives, and 35 roles.
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Employers expect 170M new jobs and 92M lost by 2030. 41% plan cuts as AI automates tasks (WEF).
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US: 7 Senate seats and 5 governorships flipped, the first Muslim senator, two Native American women in a Senate seat and a governorship. Brazil: Lula at 51.8%. Serbia: Vučić conceded to a student movement.
Change is hard. People in action make it work.
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200+ episodes of the Social Change Career Podcast. 30 ratings on Apple Podcasts.
Season 16 is recording now. A rating takes ten seconds and helps the next listener find the show.
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2.33 million young Colombians are neither studying nor working, 21.1% of ages 15 to 28 (DANE).
This week's PCDN Weekly Impact: eight ways to keep going in a hard market, plus 30 impact jobs from $45,000 remote to $282,200.
Free: pcdn-impact.beehiiv.com/
Fastest-growing US jobs to 2035, per BLS:
Nurse practitioners +41%, median $132,300
Solar installers +37%, median $53,140
Data scientists +35%, median $120,230
Home health aides add 847,300 jobs at a median $35,800.
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Almost every day someone reaches out to me for career advice. Laid off, burnt out, or done building widgets while the world is in deep crisis. Where I point people: PCDN's free AI for Impact platform, the Career Campus, AI tools trained on your sector, your university career
office, professional organizations, your peers, and groups like 80,000 Hours, Probably Good, Impactpool, Devex and Idealist. Day 16 of 30 with Boardy. Free AI for Impact platform: impactai.pcdn.global More at pcdn.global #ImpactCareers #CareerChange #SocialImpact
1,100+ live impact roles on the PCDN job board. Employers post from $25.
Unite America, Princeton University and the Pulitzer Center have recruited here.
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