Jobs Careers Problem Video
Conference paper on the problem of career progresion in archaeology
PaleoWest buys Commonwealth Heritage Group
PaleoWest, one of the largest Cultural Resource Management (CRM) companies in the United States has bought one of their major competitors, Commonwealth Heritage Group.
We don’t have a JOBS problem, we have a CAREERS problem
Since 2020, archaeology in both the UK and the USA has been experiencing a recruitment ‘squeeze’. At a time when demand for services has been very high, there have been unprecedented levels of hard-to-fill vacancies.
We don’t have a JOBS problem, we have a CAREERS problem
Prepublication text and slides from presentation at CIfA Conference 29th April 2022
Profiling the Profession 2020
Profiling the Profession 2020, the updated labour market intelligence report for professional archaeology in the UK.
Cuts to Archaeology Teaching Grants
The grants that universities in England receive for teaching archaeology may be cut by 50%.
All archaeologists working in the UK are graduates. Not every recipient of an archaeology degree goes on to work in archaeology, but those that do provide tangible, quantifiable benefits to the country that are worth a quarter of a billion pounds every year.
Labor Shortage Mitigation
Five years ago, HBI’s Christopher Dore gave a lecture to the Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers (FAME). He presented things that U.K. firms could do, in advance, to minimize the problems that a labor shortage brings. It is time to revisit those lessons.
