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Tech jobs: Specialist subject
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (761+ words) Emerging Europe Demand for a few, highly advanced technology skills is surging while Europe's wider IT employment market softens. How to square the circle? In March 2026 Arthur Mensch, who runs Mistral AI, raised 830 million US dollars to build data centres…...
Entry-level jobs: The first rung is vanishing
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (282+ words) Andrew Wrobel is the chief reinvention officer at Reinvantage. The Last Word: Not every graduate role will disappear. The issue is not the end of the junior career, but the need for firms to redesign it. The numbers matter. But…...
The real skills crisis is executive imagination
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (607+ words) Emerging Europe The real skills crisis is executive imagination The Last Word: Leadership today requires courage to reinvent, to reimagine, and to retire assumptions before markets retire them for you. For the better part of the last couple of years,…...
Lithuania's student unicorn hunt
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (415+ words) Inside Lithuania's push to build entrepreneurs before they graduate. Lithuania, however, is taking a step further, moving beyond theory and placing students in real start-up environments. "Students are not just learning, they are building under real pressure. Their ideas are…...
Degrees of separation
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (192+ words) Europe and Central Asia's women are better educated than its men. Getting a decent job is another matter. In many countries across Europe and Central Asia, women now outperform men at university. They enrol in higher numbers, they graduate in…...
Small country, big ideas: Moldova's journey into the global creative economy
11+ mon, 1+ day ago (210+ words) Moreover, Moldovan universities have begun adapting their curricula to respond to the growing demand for creative skills. New programmes in animation, multimedia production, and game design are preparing graduates to enter both local and international job markets." "Moldova's creative sector…...