In June, total job openings in the U.S. grew to 3.76 million, according to the Labor Department, the highest level since the summer of 2008. In the past 36 months, job openings have grown more than 70 percent, far surpassing the recovery following the last recession, in which job openings grew...
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Recruiter Survey Shows an Increasingly Candidate-Driven Market
Employment markets are most often measured by unemployment, a quintessential macroeconomic indicator. Yet, on the microeconomic level — the level that all companies work on — it is an indicator that is far from representative. In today’s economy, the headline unemployment number is perhaps less representative than ever before. For many...
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Three Years After Recession a Long-Tail Emerges
As Tolstoy famously said, “The strongest of all warriors are these two – time and patience.” On the tail end of fighting through the longest recession in the memories of most alive today, time has brought about many changes. In the first quarter of 2009, more than 2 million jobs disappeared....
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As Job Market Improves, Candidates Notice
In the depths of the recession, as unemployment rates were rising and everyone knew someone who was being affected, “It’s better than no job at all” became a common refrain across the factory floors and offices of America. While it was a poor retention strategy, it was a worse recruiting strategy...
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