As COVID-19 continues to impact the daily lives of millions of people around the world, those of you looking for reliable employment will be feeling the strain even more. What was already a demanding task has now become even more strenuous, with countless companies laying off workers, announcing redundancies and even shutting up shop completely. Continued »
In the US, the number of unemployed is coming down, which is welcome news. However the unemployment rate is still 8.4% as of August 2020, whereas it hovered around 4% between August 2018 and February 2020. Overall, around 22 million Americans lost their job during the pandemic. Nearly half of those people have now returned Continued »
Finding a job during the pandemic can feel like an impossible task. Covid-19 has ravaged the economy and stalled hiring, with 14.8 million Americans remaining unemployed, hiring activity slipping significantly and competition for jobs increasingly intense. But, if you can be flexible on location, following in the footsteps of many big corporates and moving to Continued »
2020 has been an extremely challenging year for jobseekers and employers. The U.S. job market has been decimated by the coronavirus crisis, and despite some signs that a recovery may be on the horizon, the picture in September 2020 remains bleak. We are experiencing one of the biggest economic slumps in living memory; 14.8 million Continued »
As the coronavirus continues to dictate so much of our daily lives, our work environment has changed significantly. The longer the world has to cope with the corona virus pandemic, the more businesses adapt and learn new ways to operate effectively. Most companies and workers that are able to work completely online have done so Continued »
We partnered up with our friends over at Pandologic to take a deeper look at the connection between the supply of jobs, and how the demand for candidates has changed during the coronavirus crisis. Here’s a look at our report: What effects has covid-19 had on the job market? We’ve been spending our time asking Continued »
ADP have released their July report, and we wanted to see how their employment data compares with our data about the job market. If you don’t read ADP’s report, they collect data on payroll for 460,000 businesses, accounting for 26 million employees nationally. So they’re a great indicator of who is in work. In short, Continued »
Covid-19 has thrown a grenade into the job market. Vacancies are down – in the US job market, 34% down from its normal level, and the UK is down 52%. But as vacancies start to recover, and more businesses look to hire, what do employers need to consider when writing job advertising? The jobseeker perspective Continued »
While it would be premature to say that we are out of the woods when it comes to coronavirus and the effect on the job market, we are aware of what the world will be like until the pandemic passes. As such we have seen job numbers start to climb back up from a position Continued »