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11/13/2026

Part-Time Holiday Jobs Hit 49% of Ads: What to Ask in 2026

Scroll through holiday job listings in November 2026 and something has shifted. The word seasonal is showing up less. Part-time is showing up more. That swap is not cosmetic: it changes how long your job lasts, how many hours land on your ...

11/10/2026

6 min

BLS October data: 165,000 jobs hide a two-tier pay squeeze

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on 6 November 2026 that the US economy added 165,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in October, beating forecasts by a comfortable margin. If that number made you feel better about your job search or your ...

11/05/2026

8 min

US job openings jump to 7.52 million as layoffs hit 18-month low

Two numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) September Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), released on November 3, 2026, tell a story that does not fit neatly into either an optimistic or pessimistic frame. Total quits ...

11/03/2026

6 min

Faking skills at work: 1 in 3 workers admit it, survey finds

Addison Group's 2026 Skill Security Report puts a number on a hiring-process vulnerability that many talent acquisition leaders have suspected but rarely quantified: 36% of working and job-seeking Americans , approximately 64 million people, say ...

10/06/2026

5 min

Job search burnout: Gen Z seeker applied to 90 jobs before offer

You spot a role that looks right. You click apply, upload your resume, and then the form asks you to retype your entire work history by hand, line by line, the same information sitting right there in the document you just uploaded. Twenty minutes ...

09/28/2026

7 min

AI creates recession-like job market for US new grads

If you graduated in the past three years with a degree in computer science, accounting, journalism, or engineering, the job market waiting for you looks nothing like the one your professors described. A working paper by economists affiliated with ...

08/14/2026

7 min

What the new $4,000 H-1B and L-1 renewal fee means for HR

Starting September 9, 2026, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) final rule converts H-1B and L-1 visa renewals into a recurring per-worker cost for the organizations most structurally dependent on that talent pool. Covered employers, defined ...

08/12/2026

6 min

BLS reports 23,000 jobs lost in July: what job seekers need to know now

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its August 7 jobs report and the headline number was a surprise: US nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July, the first monthly loss since February. On top of that, the BLS revised May and June figures ...

08/06/2026

6 min

US job openings slip to 7.4 million as layoffs stay low

If you have been sending out resumes for months and hearing back from almost no one, the data backs you up. US employers posted 7.36 million job vacancies in June, down from 7.54 million in May, according to the Department of Labor (DOL). That is ...

07/22/2026

7 min

FLSA's frozen floor: 17 years at $7.25 and what it costs you

Clock 40 hours a week at the federal minimum wage and your annual pay before tax comes to $15,080. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sets the 2026 poverty line for a two-person household at $15,650. That gap is not an abstraction: ...

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