Now Hiring: A Newsletter About Staffing, Recruiting, and Talent

Hi everyone, 

It’s officially fall here in the U.S., so grab your pumpkin spice beverage of choice and fall into the latest staffing, recruiting, and talent headlines. 

🪃 Boomerang Employees: Recruiters’ Secret Weapon in a Cooling Job Market

In today’s cooling labor market, boomerang employees can be a boon for recruiters with limited bandwidth and budgets because those returning can require less time and money to recruit and onboard.

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🤖 Job Seekers Level Up: 58% Are Letting AI Do the Heavy Lifting in Their Job Searches

New research found that 58% of job seekers are using AI in their job searches—the most common uses include writing or refining résumés, finding relevant job openings or crafting cover letters.

Read more here.

🪖 Doctor Deficit: U.S. Military Faces Recruitment Challenges Amid Rising Medical Corps Attrition

The U.S. military is struggling to fill the ranks of its medical corps — while the Defense Department spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually on training and retaining its physicians, the rate of recruitment is not keeping up with the number of personnel leaving the service.

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🧑‍💻 Cybersecurity Alert: White House Launches Program to Tackle 500,000 Job Vacancies

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director has launched a new program to help fill the gap of about 500,000 available cybersecurity jobs across the country. 

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💻 India’s IT Job Boom: 8.5% Hiring Surge Coming, With 70% of Roles in Software

Indeed India reports an 8.5% increase in IT hiring next year, with 70% of current roles already focused on software.

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BY THE NUMBERS

🧑‍💼86 percent. The percentage of workers who would entertain new job opportunities, according to Employ’s 2024 Employ Job Seeker Nation Report. 

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

🎙️We continue to release new episodes of “Now Hiring: A Podcast About Staffing, Recruiting, and Talent,” including our recent conversation about the state of staffing. 

You can check out the episodes on Spotify and YouTube.

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Thanks for reading! What did you think? What would you like us to include in future editions? Feel free to provide feedback to editor-in-chief Steve Vittorioso at [email protected]. We always love hearing from industry leaders and practitioners like you.