After years of economic uncertainty and stinging inflation, some Houston-area workers are now showing signs that they’re ready to change jobs.<\/p>\n
In what many see as a sign of continued health in the Houston economy, a new Robert Half Co. survey shows a large number of people want to move on from their present circumstances.<\/p>\n
“Our survey actually showed that 58-percent of Houston workers said they plan to look for a new job in the second half of this year, and that’s above the national average which is 46-percent,” according to Robert Half Regional Director Robert Vaughn.<\/p>\n
Specifically, “we are looking at the professional services industries and anything from technical, marketing and creative, legal and financial are all seeing a big uptick in the number of people looking for a change,” he says.<\/p>\n
And while those who are ready for a move are not strictly tied to the emerging artificial intelligence skills, AI is becoming so far-reaching that many of the jobs now valued are deeply connected to “new tech.”<\/p>\n
He adds, “a lot of companies are looking to tech modernization and digital transformation, and these initiatives have to occur, and sometimes it takes new people and new opportunities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of economic uncertainty and stinging inflation, some Houston-area workers are now showing signs that they’re ready…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-382169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}