The results from the June jobs report 2022 makes me think of when my kids were young, and they would ask “Are we there yet?” Usually this anticipates arriving at a positive destination. However, since we have been hit so hard by supply chain and inflation, we may be looking…
Ads disclosing compensation have doubled over the last year. However, much of the compensation is listed as a salary range and these ranges are pretty wide. Pay transparency is the recent hot job posting trend. Microsoft is the latest company to commit to publicly sharing salary ranges for open roles….
Job Market Conundrum Continues The May jobs report indicates postings broke a four month slide of year-over-year postings decline. May 2022 postings were flat compared to May 2021. However, coming on the heels of four straight double-digit declining months, it was a welcome bit of good news. Unfortunately, the overall…
Record Job Openings and Quit Rates Influence Market Activity The April jobs report shows job openings and quit rates remain at record levels while hires have not ticked up to fill the employment gap. With unemployment claims now below pre-pandemic levels, there is still a limited supply of workers to…
Analyzes Job Seeker Movement Through Resume Changes Across Employers, Titles, Occupations, Industries and Metro Area Locations Public Insight, developer of talent analytics application TalentView announces its latest release with several enhancements to its Resume and Skills Insights module, including the addition of workforce migration and resume tracing analysis. Workforce migration…
And Other Highlights from the March Jobs Report The fuel for the “Great Resignation” is a complete reassessment of work itself, which to no surprise has impacted workplace satisfaction scores. The ebb and flow of ratings and review data mirrors the up and down sentiment of today’s worker. They are…
Before we get into workforce migration, let’s recap the most recent labor market data. It indicates we may finally be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel in terms of job market stability. Job openings are declining indicating jobs may be finally being filled. Quit rates have leveled…
The basic concept of job market supply and demand is no different than it is for any other market. In this blog post we will explain how to measure and understand the gaps and what you can do to optimize talent acquisition strategies. Who are the job seekers? What are…
Hybrid remote work has officially arrived. Indeed® recently introduced a new status flag for job postings called “Hybrid Remote”. Prior to January, the previous definitions of remote were: Temporarily Remote Permanently Remote Hybrid remote work arrangements were relegated to the abstract of the posting ad or even into the ad…
In the second quarter of 2021, nearly one in three job ads in the Indeed® platform were marked as urgently hiring. Normally we associate urgency with the job market as attractive. When supply is greater than demand, urgency as a demand indicator works. Job Ads Urgency Signals Desperation But in…
Job postings are sluggish, which is contributing to a slow market rebound. During the course of 2021, the job market seemed to signal that a market rebound was right around the corner. That ended up not being the case and to overcome market sluggishness, a wide swath of industries needs…
First in a 7-part Series on the State of the Workforce and What You Can Do About It It’s over – 2021 that is. However, the issues related to an uneven market rebound are likely not the ending, but just the beginning. The resulting “Great Resignation” has likely created changes…