When’s the last time that you updated your hiring process to make sure that it is aligned with today’s standards? The hiring marketplace has changed dramatically in the last year and a half. In today’s candidate-driven market, it is difficult to keep the attention of applicants until officially offering them a position. Why? The simple […]
The Great Resignation is a time in American history when the quit rate of workers reached dramatic highs. This began in the spring of 2021 following the Covid-19 pandemic and is affecting the labor market in 2022. This is a time when unemployment rates are low while the number of job openings is high. The […]
The unemployment rate has fallen back to pre-crash levels, the economy continues to grow, and nearly every forward-looking “best jobs” list includes technology careers as a growth area. All good news for job-seekers, right? Yes…but. It’s no surprise that the old ways of looking for employment — searching want ads or expecting you’ll be rolled […]
The US economy keeps humming along, now at 70 straight months of private sector job growth and economic expansion. The unemployment rate has been cut in half since its high point after the Great Recession, but employers often struggle to find the right workers, especially in the tech sector. That was confirmed in Deloitte’s recently-released […]
The good news is that the US unemployment rate continues to fall, down to 5% for October 2015, according to the latest statistics. “The Federal Reserve considers a base unemployment rate of 5.0 to 5.2% as ‘full employment’ in the economy,” according to Mitchell Hartman of Marketplace. And still, that position you’ve been eyeing for […]