Jen McCready | Under The Influence

@CBSNews Please tell her she can contact me and get my playbook for FREE (I'll DM her a code to use) built specifically for Gen Z based on over 500 interviews. stan.store/JenMcCready/p/… #CBSNews #CareerTips #JobSearch #JenMcCready

When Erica Schwartz graduated from Boston University in 2017, the marketing major ran into a wall experienced by many young job-seekers: You can do everything right and still not get an interview. cbsn.ws/458qbub

Love it! I wrote about Digital Program Managers as a 2026 workplace prediction after interviewing 500 people at companies about the impact of AI in the workplace. In tech we're using them to manage agents. open.substack.com/pub/jenmccread… Digital Program Managers are AI orchestrators who design automated systems that eliminate manual tasks. The critical shortage: Seasoned program managers who understand partner economics, channel conflict, program ROI, and operational nuances from 10+ years, but who’ve evolved to architect automated systems rather than execute spreadsheets. You can’t automate what you don’t understand. Companies that eliminated experienced program managers before reskilling/upskilling them are scrambling to find people who bridge program strategy and technical implementation. By mid-2026, experienced Digital Program Managers who can say “I ran partner programs for a decade AND I can build the AI workflows to scale them” will command premium compensation. Traditional coordinators executing manual tasks will be unemployable. This isn’t about learning AI tools. It’s about becoming the architect of AI-powered program infrastructure.

AI PMs at Netflix get paid $900K+. She's been an AI PM at not just Netflix, but also Amazon and Meta. And today, she broke down how you can too: 1:43 Types of AI PMs 7:11 - Technical Concepts Masterclass 58:57 - How to Job Search Well

@WSJ your portfolio doesn't need to be perfect. it needs to exist. stan.store/JenMcCready/p/… #CareerTips #JobSearch #JenMcCready

Memo to job-hunting college grads: It pays to take your search to cities just beyond America’s biggest metro areas. 🔗: on.wsj.com/44TFYxv

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If you’re looking for a job, search LinkedIn to find people posting about hiring. Search “Posts” for the job title(s) you're looking for, along with “hiring” or “recruiting.” That way you can talk to an actual human about the job as opposed to just applying.

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We are rapidly creating technology that could surpass human intelligence, with enormous risks to jobs, society and humanity itself. AI must work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. That’s why I’m introducing a moratorium on new AI data centers.

i built a job search guide for Gen Z. 75% of buyers are their parents. think about that. parents know their kids need help before the kids know they need help. that's called love. and it's also called strategy. stan.store/JenMcCready/p/… #Career #Jobs #GenZ #GenX

i built a job search guide for Gen Z. 75% of buyers are their parents. think about that. parents know their kids need help before the kids know they need help. that's called love. and it's also called strategy. stan.store/JenMcCready/p/…

@ArbitrageD0g @Codie_Sanchez Ya know building data centers is a 12-18 month long gig. I’m in Reno where most of them are already and more in process of being built. When completed they only employ a couple IT skilled electricians and up to 6-8 total employees.

@JenMcCready @Codie_Sanchez Well, these people just need to relocate to where Data Centers are being built. Get OUT of California as fast as you can. Can't find enough plumbers and electicians in Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, etc.

How to profit from the AI boom without writing a single line of code: 1. Get into a trade or service-based business -HVAC -Plumbing -Electrical -Pest control -Window cleaning These need a licensed body on-site. Nobody has figured out how to automate a clogged drain at 11pm on a Tuesday. 2. Become the person who services AI's dirty work In 2024 alone, $455 billion was invested in data centers. These building all have real (expensive) problems that require trained electricians, plumbers, and HVAC technicians to fix. 3. Use AI to become the smartest person in your current job @amasad, CEO of Replit, told me about a guy at a skincare company who needed to automate 30-40 hours of weekly ops work. He was quoted $150,000 by a software vendor, so he spent $400 on Replit and built it himself in two weeks. His boss now pays him $30,000 a year for the software. He never quit his job, he just became indispensable. 4. Buy a cash-flowing boring business instead of building from scratch Two Contrarian Academy members, Anthony and Alex, just bought a 45-year-old window distribution company in San Diego. -High single-digit millions in revenue -Virtually no inventory -15-20% margins -4 employees That business has been running since before most AI companies existed. It'll still be running when the next model drops. 5. Do the unscalable human thing everyone else is automating away Every competitor you have is about to flood every scalable channel with 700 automated messages a day that nobody reads. The bar for standing out is getting embarrassingly low. A business that shows up, remembers names, and sends the handwritten note will out-loyalty every automated competitor in its zip code. 6. Get into the right rooms Two other Academy members, Anthony and Alex, met in a mastermind. That one relationship led to a hotel, a hard lesson on cash flow, and eventually a business that replaced both their W-2 incomes... Every single thing on this list is easier when you're around people who are actually doing it rather than just talking about it.

These 6 skills = Career protection.

The cascade nobody is talking about When tech companies do mass layoffs: Office buildings empty out Janitorial contracts get cut Window cleaning schedules get reduced Dry cleaners near office corridors lose 40-60% of their customer base Lunch/Coffee restaurants close Parking lots empty Drivers lose routes Food trucks that ran specific routes to office clusters Catering companies lose revenue or close Happy hour bars lose revenue Convenience stores lose patrons Gyms lose memberships Hair/nail salons lose clients It just keeps going... That's not AI displacing those workers. That's AI displacing knowledge workers who were the economic engine for an entire surrounding ecosystem. #economy #tech #AI #layoffs

A plumber doesn't need to worry about an AI taking their job. They need to worry about the 200 households in their city where someone just lost a $120K job and is now delaying the bathroom remodel indefinitely.

6 Skills. 90 days. Career Protected. stan.store/JenMcCready/p/… #AI #Career #Technology #Claude #Google #Microsoft #LinkedInLearning

@LuizaJarovsky Because they make more money if there is no cure.

Everybody wants AI to help cure cancer. Why isn't every AI company obsessively focused on that?

@thesayannayak Keeping or getting a job and so far 14K downloads! stan.store/JenMcCready/p/…

What problem does your product solve? Drop the link.

@MarindaVannoy1 I explain what I do as an advisor in big tech. It’s not every job with a computer. But it will be approximately 65% of knowledge workers before 2027-2028.

So basically ai is going to completely wipe out the middle class? This should be interesting.

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Tired of prompt lists that don't actually protect your career? I built a scorecard instead. Six skills, free resources, 90-day proof. 14,000 downloaded version 1. Version 2 just dropped. ♻️ Share with everyone you know who has a job or is looking for a job. #AI #Technology #Corporate #Automation #work

When you go to work tomorrow, see how many you check off for your role. ✅Your day is mostly repetitive and predictable. ✅You copy and paste information between systems. ✅Your decisions follow the same logic every single time. ✅You are not adapting, creating, or changing much week to week. ✅You are a bottleneck but you are not adding judgment. ✅Someone could record your screen and do your job step by step without knowing why. ✅You work alone or in silos. ✅You are not plugged into strategy. ✅You have not taken the time to learn what AI actually is. ✅You support processes but you do not shape them. The more you checked off, the more urgent this is. This is not about blame. It is about knowing where you stand before someone else decides for you. I work with companies to assess their partner ecosystems and figure out what stays human, what gets automated, and what moves into the Hybrid Zone. That assessment has real consequences for real people. If you want to understand how to protect your role, that conversation starts with you. #Tech #AI #CareerTips 🔗 Link in bio. McCready Solutions.