Job Seekers Interested in Blockchain, Marijuana Employment in 2017

US. job seekers showed a strong interest in working with blockchain technology, in hurricane cleanup and for the budding cannabis industry in 2017, but the largest spike in growth over the year was for the search term "no experience required," according to global job search engine Indeed. The company's data science team analyzed hundreds of thousands of search terms to identify dramatic changes in search traffic in 2017 from the previous year. Searching for jobs that required no experience grew 1,140 percent in the U.S. over the last year, beating interest for technology-focused jobs (up 467 percent) and flexible jobs (up 385 percent)."Recent developments in automation and marginalized workers looking for work in other fields could be playing a part in the increased interest in roles that require little to no experience this year," said Paul Wolfe, Indeed's senior vice president of HR. "Marginalized workers seeking to enter a strengthening labor market represent a set of people out there interested in finding full-time roles that don't have strict requirements. Automation can certainly be another factor here, as it has become a more common theme in the job market this year.