A recent survey from Salary.com found that 66% of responding employers either reduced their workforces or enacted pay cuts in response to COVID-19. That’s … Read more
Rocky Road: The Labor Market Will Be in Crisis for a Long Time
In September 1945 the U.S. economy lost almost 2 million jobs as the military demobilized after the end of WWII. This April, the economy lost over ten … Read more
Talent Acquisition Shifts From Bringing People In to Helping People Out
Once upon a time, when companies laid off workers, their severance packages — if they got any at all — included outplacement services. People would get … Read more
Does a Desire to Remain on Unemployment Make a Worker Less Loyal?
There are a lot of people writing and talking about the federal and state financial support available for people affected by the COVID-19 virus. Many of … Read more
Hundreds of Companies Unite to Help Recruiters Find Jobs — But There’s a Catch
A new job-aggregation platform launched this week — RecruitersRecruitingRecruiters.com. As the name implies, its mission is “to support our colleagues and … Read more
COVID-19 Will Create Demand for (and Shortage of) Manufacturing Jobs
In just a few weeks, the coronavirus has come to dominate the news, crash the stock market, and bring us to the verge of a recession. The pullback in … Read more
Talent in a Taboo Industry: Recruiting Cannabis Candidates
Read your favorite news source, and you’ll likely find at least one if not several reports on how the U.S. labor market is tightening due to a looming … Read more
Rainy Mondays and Chilly Economics — Recruiting in a Downturn
There was a sales manager who used to say he “loved rainy Mondays.” It was a little crazy to hear, since no one was excited about Monday in … Read more
Understanding Labor Mobility
Companies that hire in a tight labor market need to get creative when they attract candidates. That means looking at different factors that influence … Read more
Why Your Firm Has a Talent Shortage Explained (Bluntly)
Most organizations that are facing a talent shortage blame a variety of external factors, even though the actual culprit is the way their firm recruits. … Read more
What 2018 Tells Us About Hiring in 2019
Looking back at the state of the labor market in 2018, the U.S. workforce experienced historic gains. Unemployment fell to a near 50-year low, more than … Read more
Top 7 Reasons Why Recruiting AI Talent Is Critical To Your Firm’s Success
It’s hard to find a business or technology publication these days that don’t have an article covering the upcoming dominance of artificial intelligence or … Read more
Robots Will Disrupt Recruiting More Than AI
If you’d like to see the future, visit the Henn-na restaurant near Nagasaki in Japan. Inside, a robot chef makes pancakes, while another makes cocktails or … Read more
Many RNs Think Nursing Shortages Getting Worse
Registered nurses — the backbone of the healthcare system — see the problem of nursing shortages first hand, and many believe they are getting … Read more
University Study Says These Are the Top 10 Emerging Jobs for College Grads in the U.S.
Looking to launch a new job board or searching for a recruiting gig with real potential? If so, the University of California San Diego Extension Center for … Read more
Blue Collar Blues: Recruiting Manufacturing Workers
Manufacturing in America is huge. Over the last 20 years manufacturing output has increased by almost 40 percent, and the annual value of production by … Read more
Average Time to fill Takes Big Drop In May. But Is It Temporary?
It took an average of 27.6 working days to fill a job in May, according to the latest data from career site publisher DHI Group. That’s the fewest … Read more
What 1 Company Is Doing About Manufacturing’s Skills Shortage
Manufacturing is not the object of the media’s affection like the technology field is, but it has a skills shortage of its own. In the eight-minute … Read more
Intel’s Latest Acquisition Will Speed-Up the Mass Unemployment of Truckers, Drivers
In the next decade, robots could replace 1.7 million American truckers, a workforce that represents one of the last remaining careers to offer a … Read more
Nearly 500,000 New Jobs Added This Year
Employers continued to add nonfarm jobs at a rapid pace in February, increasing payrolls by 235,000 during the month, blowing past predictions of a more … Read more