Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The United States economy added 253,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 3.4 percent in April 2023, according to “The Employment Situation” jobs report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employment grew most in professional and business services, health care, and leisure and hospitality. Professional…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The “Great Resignation” where record numbers of U.S. workers voluntarily resign from their jobs showed signs of slowing as under 4 million workers quit in March 2023 – the third month in a row with under 4 million “Quits” – according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On Wednesday, June 28, 2023, Attorney Lester Rosen, the author of “The Safe Hiring Manual” and founder of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will present a webinar titled “Screening Unemployed Job Applicants: Pros and Cons to Consider” that will take place from 1:00 PM to 2:05 PM ET (10:00…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The “Great Resignation” where record numbers of U.S. workers voluntarily resign from their jobs continued as over 4 million workers quit in February 2023 – after dropping below 4 million quits in January 2023 – according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) released by the…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The “Great Resignation” that has seen a record number of workers in the United States voluntarily resign from their jobs continued as a little over 4 million workers quit in October 2022, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) released by the U.S. Department of…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The “Great Resignation” in the United States continued unabated as approximately 4.2 million workers quit their jobs in October 2021, down from the record high 4.4 million workers who quit in September 2021, according to the monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) released by the…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Total nonfarm employment in the United States rose by 850,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 5.9 percent in June 2021 as the labor market continued to recover from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to the monthly jobs report released by the U.S. Bureau of…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On June 4, 2021, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a poll titled “The COVID-19 Unemployed” that found many Americans who lost their jobs during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and remain unemployed never expect to return to work and that steep barriers stand in the way of…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The United States economy added 661,000 jobs while the unemployment rate declined by 0.5 percentage point to 7.9 percent in September 2020, improvements reflecting the resumption of economic activity curtailed due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to the jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The May 2020 jobs report that showed the United States economy added a surprising 2.5 million jobs while the unemployment rate declined to 13.3 percent despite the effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that caused a record loss of 20.5 million jobs in April 2020 also contained…
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