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The US Talent Pool: Welcome Back to a Seller’s Market

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in May 2017 (the latest confirmed number). Now let’s overlay the Bureau of Labor Statistics data on ‘Layoffs’ – the monthly rate at which organizations are dropping people from their payrolls. If you had a job in 2008, you held onto it. So a quick recap: After a dramatic surge during the recession, unemployment in the U.S.

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