Market experts agree we’re in a slow hiring environment right now, yet unemployment is still low. What’s going on with the job market in 2025? If you talk to anyone looking for a new job, odds are you won’t get a happy report. Hiring is at its lowest point in more than a decade, with […]

By: Bill Wednieski If you keep up on the current job market and economic news, you’d be aware of the dizzying swirl of opinions and trends, plus industry winners and losers. On the one hand, big tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Amazon, Salesforce, and plenty of others just laid off a few hundred thousand […]

By: Bill Wednieski A notable personal observation and trend has emerged over the past year. Record inflation is not news. Candidates switching jobs and locking up generous compensation offers is likewise not news. What feels like news to me (and what is not talked about enough, by the way) is the loyal hiring managers hiring […]

By: Bill Wednieski It is not a new headline that the United States experienced seven percent inflation in 2021 – the highest inflation 40 years. What has this inflation meant in the job market? Going Backward If you’re an employee not earning seven percent more at the end of 2021 than the start of 2021, […]

By Ryan Clark What a change 2020 brought to the U.S. job market! During the span of just a few months, most states in the U.S. went from historically low unemployment rates in February 2020 to historically high unemployment rates by April 2020.  According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Michigan’s unemployment rate soared […]