16.03.25|Shahar IlanThe number of job seekers in high-tech has jumped by 12%, with engineers and IT professionals hit hardest.
17.02.25|Maayan ManelaWith companies prioritizing referrals and AI replacing junior roles, recent graduates are finding few opportunities.
16.02.25|In Partnership with MOSAIC- AI Policy InstituteMass Unemployment Could Actually Lead to an Era of Unprecedented Abundance - If We Prepare Today
09.12.24|Maayan ManelaThe tech industry is offering new opportunities to injured IDF veterans through specialized programs.
04.06.24|Meir OrbachThe high-tech sector's contribution rate to the country's GDP of 20% is significantly greater than that of the USA at 9% and Russia's dependence on gas and oil at 16%, according to a report by the Innovation Authority. However, the diversity of the working population in the high-tech sector remains low, with 65% being non-ultra-Orthodox Jewish men.
30.01.24|Shahar Ilan2023 was a year of extreme ups and downs in employment that ended with the number of high-tech employees close to the average of 2022. Between October and December the number of employees in the industry decreased by 15,000, due to the decrease in investments and the war
29.01.24|Shahar IlanAccording to data published by the CBS, the number of high-tech workers in Israel decreased since April of last year to a total figure of 427,000 in December, similar to the average in 2022
17.07.23|Shahar IlanWhile in recent months it had seemed that the decline in demand for high-tech employees was slowing up, May witnessed a new low, according to figures from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
19.03.23|Shahar IlanA special report by the Employment Service reveals that the number of job seekers in the field increased by 71.5% from April 2022, with another increase expected following the banking crisis in the US
16.03.23|Shahar IlanWith the increase in interest rates, inflation, and now the collapse of the banks, will the Israeli labor market continue to maintain stability? The high-tech market is already showing signs of weakness, with the supply of jobs decreasing and the number of job seekers jumping by 20%
22.01.23|Shahar IlanThe data from the employment service seems to reflect not only the waves of layoffs in high-tech, but also the increasing difficulty to find work quickly
04.01.23|Maayan ManelaLawyers worldwide explain what labor laws apply to the popular employment phenomena of the past year
21.12.22|Shahar IlanAlthough the employment figures published this week are still good, the negative trend cannot be ignored. High-tech, for example, is still short of software engineers, but the demand has been cut in half. Is the Israeli economy heading for a soft or hard landing?
21.11.22|Shahar IlanAccording to CBS data, the information and communication industries, associated with high-tech, experienced a drop from 8.74% of vacant jobs in February to 6.03% in October
22.09.22|Sophie ShulmanPalo Alto Networks, Insight Partners, and executives from across the high-tech industry are establishing a new platform for recruiting and training employees with the goal to train 10,000 workers from sectors that suffer from underrepresentation in the industry
13.09.22|Shahar IlanA new study found that two major barriers to employing Bedouins are the language barrier and the tensions between Bedouins and Jews in the south. Study also reveals that 20% of Bedouin boys dropout of high school
31.08.22|Viki Auslender“A healthy separation between life and work is not resignation; people are not lazy and working from home is efficient and beneficial to employees. It's not that ‘no one wants to work’, but that ‘no one wants to work under the conditions offered by employers’,” writes Viki Auslender
16.06.22|Alon Reiter“While the challenges of recruiting employees are being experienced globally, in Israel they're having a severe impact. We anticipate that in the coming year and the years immediately following it, this will be the ongoing trend despite changes to markets,” writes Alon Reiter, VP HR & OutSourcing at Aman Group
24.05.22|CalcalistIlil Amir-Kasif, the Director of the Center for Higher Education and Employment, founded by the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, was speaking during Calcalist’s “Academia that Works” conference