Career switch via training: A Hampshire woman turned redundancy into a new tech path after completing a fully funded Step8Up web development bootcamp, now building a children’s reward-chart app. Second-career entrepreneurship: A Malaysian journalist-photographer is using a coffee catering side business to cope with rising living costs, showing how media workers are diversifying income. Youth career exploration: Yuma County ran a free Career Exploration Camp for middle schoolers with hands-on technical activities and local education and business partners. Long-term unemployment pressure: US long-term joblessness rose to 1.8M in 2026, with analysts pointing to a “low-hire, low-fire” labor market that keeps people stuck longer. AI and entry-level optimism: Google CEO Sundar Pichai told graduates AI will raise the “starting point” for many and expand who can code. Skilled work, limited settlement: Korea’s foreign skilled-worker visa is helping some move into supervisory roles, but long-term career and life stability remains constrained. Job market mismatch in India: A Supreme Court ruling on qualification-based hiring highlights how many unemployed young graduates are still applying for low-level roles.