Instead of letting skills atrophy, Danielle DiMartino Booth said, 'You have to start thinking about how I can reinvent myself.'
Workers should start thinking about how to reinvent themselves following the recession, according to Danielle DiMartino Booth.Health care, cybersecurity, and trade union jobs are the most recession-proof jobs, according to Quill Intelligence CEO Danielle DiMartino Booth. However, other industries are facing more insecurity.claiming initial unemployment in the most recent weekly data, many are left wondering how they will jump back into the workforce.
"You're keeping people in positions that ultimately might not exist in the end," Booth said. "If the same person ends up being out of work at the end of that period, they're going to have had several years of their skills atrophy[ing] as opposed to being a little bit more productive." Booth suggested the U.S. government should invest in reskilling workers in the hardest-hit industries like energy. She also pointed out that engineers have already identified necessary infrastructure improvements and think the U.S. could create jobs by taking up these projects.
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