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

Energage

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. – Bureau of Labor Statistics September 2016 – [link]. (3) This is exactly where we were pre-recession, in May 2007.

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Upwork's 2017 Freelancing in America Study

Small Business Labs

Upwork and the Freelancers Union released their 2017 Freelancing in America study last week. The key finding is the estimated number of freelancers continued to grow in 2017, reaching 57.3 million in 2016 to 32.8 million in 2017.  million in 2017 from 19.1 million in 2016.

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Blockchain In Recruiting: Will That Impact A Recruiter's Job?

Recruit CRM

Safe Data Storage Though the largest data breach was uncovered in late 2016-2017 when Yahoo reported that hackers had stolen information from at least 3 billion user accounts worldwide, it has been seen time and again how companies with more than 1000 employees are prime targets of cyber-attacks.

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