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Cost per hire hit $5,475 in 2025, up from roughly $4,700 the year before. Applications per recruiter rose 400% over the same stretch. Staffing...
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Nearly half of employed job seekers (49%) believe AI recruiting tools are more biased than human recruiters, a number the American Staffing...
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Time-to-fill improved across the market in 2025, dropping to 63.5 days from 67.7, according to Employ's hiring benchmarks. But 90-day retention fell...
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The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) lapsed on January 1, 2026. Every qualifying placement was worth $2,400 to $9,600 in federal credit,...
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Payroll growth nearly stalled: BLS reported nonfarm payrolls rose by just 57,000 in June, while April and May were revised down a...
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The healthcare staffing recruiter role is dividing into two specialties: credentialing and compliance experts on one side, relationship-driven account owners on the...
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Employers were 54 times more likely to list "relationship development" as a required recruiter skill last year than the year before, according...
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Payrolls rose but growth stayed moderate: BLS reported total nonfarm employment grew by 172,000 in May, roughly in line with April’s revised...