Maria Gracia Santillana Linares
Careers and Workplace Reporter at Forbes
🇵🇪🇧🇷 | 📝 Writing about careers and work @Forbes | The occasional lifestyle or Formula 1 tweet or two con un splash de spanglish
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Maria Gracia Santillana Linares
This is a published version of Forbes’ Careers Newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get it in your inbox every Tuesday. Have you ever found yourself struggling to describe your job? What skills are you actually using in your day-to-day? It can sometimes be hard to narrow down, especially when major employers often don’t use the same language to describe specific jobs. The Burning Glass Institute (BGI) is hoping to change that.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Maria Gracia Santillana Linares
With rising costs, student protests and looming budget cuts, sentiment on the power of a college degree continues to sour. Now, top employers, while not abandoning the need for top college grads, are leaning into specific skills instead of degrees to find the right talent. The Skills-First Workforce Initiative, led by Philadelphia-based nonprofit Burning Glass Institute, is launching a career website outlining the skills needed for some of the most in-demand jobs in the market.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Maria Gracia Santillana Linares
This week, first year students at Georgetown Law were required to submit their final rankings of which law firms they most wanted to interview with—for summer associate jobs in 2026, after their second year. The hiring of summer associates hit an 11-year low last year, but these summer gigs are still highly coveted.
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3 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Maria Gracia Santillana Linares
This is a published version of Forbes’ Careers Newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get it in your inbox every Tuesday. Happy Billionaires Day! It’s a busy one here at Forbes, as we just released our annual list of the world’s billionaires, highlighting the richest––and arguably most powerful––people and families across the globe. In total, Forbes tracked and documented the wealth of more than 3,000 people worth a collective $16.1 trillion.
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4 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Maria Gracia Santillana Linares
This is a published version of Forbes’ Careers Newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get it in your inbox every Tuesday. President Donald Trump’s latest target? Big law firms. But their associates and other legal professionals are trying to fight back. Since he took office in January, Trump has signed a number of executive orders restricting access and government business with some of the biggest and most prestigious law firms in the country.
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A new website from the Burning Glass Institute breaks down job descriptions by skills. Thanks to input by Walmart, Blackstone and others, it could be a game changer for 11 million jobs, from software engineer and financial manager to customer service. https://t.co/obN515zLdN