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2024 was a hard year for HR

HR Brew

Since she started recruiting for HR specifically in 2007, Mazzullo told HR Brew the HR industry has had three particularly bad years: 2008, 2020, and 2024. The downturn HR experienced in 2024 is unique from those in 2008 and 2020, Mazzullo said, because it happened sooner than expected. “I It’s not a personal flaw.

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How recruiters can navigate a split labor market in 2025

HR Brew

In fact, hiring rates are highest for workers making less than $55,000 a year, and lowest for those making more than $96,000, according to data from investment company Vanguard. Skills-based hiring and job hunting. But, in this labor market, recruiters are wishing for greener pastures everywhere. Quick-to-read HR news & insights.

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7 Top Job Satisfaction Statistics You Need to Know

15Five

Gallup has data for this question going as far back as 2008, and that number was only ever so low at a single other point: 2022. According to Gallup’s survey , only 30% strongly agree they can get that chance in their work, the lowest percentage since Gallup began tracking this in 2008. That highest point? So what can you do?

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How unemployed HR pros are navigating a cool labor market

HR Brew

Slumps in HR hiring are normal, Bronson told HR Brew, pointing to the dot-com bust in the early 2000s, the 2008 financial crisis, and the pandemic in 2020, when companies cut hiring and recruiting teams, and overworked the people pros left behind. Human equals a person, and theres no person doing this anymore, she said.

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LinkedIn has transformed HR over the last 20+ years. Its execs have big plans for its AI-powered future.

HR Brew

With its massive network of members (the platform boasted a cool 10 million users by 2007), LinkedIn Recruiter launched in 2008. Seven people are hired every minute on LinkedIn, according to the company. The hires don't know where those people are, and its the most complicated marketplace in the world, Srinivasan said.

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Talent As A Critical Resource

ExactHire

Through The Great Recession of 2008-2009 and the slow recovery that followed, the vast majority of organizations were trimming their workforce, attempting to do more with less, and trying to just keep their businesses solvent. Although their percentage of the workforce was slowly increasing, hiring was stagnant. Think about it.

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Post-election hiring trends: what history can tell TA leaders

HRExecutive

In the recruitment industry, the impacts of political cycles and major national events are often felt in labor market trends and hiring volumes. However, economic and sociopolitical factors likely have a stronger influence on these hiring trends than election results alone. Data from the last three U.S. after the 2020 election.

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