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

Hi readers,

We’re serving up this month’s edition a few days earlier because of the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. 

We’re incredibly thankful for you, our readers, who are allowing us to keep building and sending this newsletter. We appreciate you.

Now, onto the actual “stuffin’”—the headlines: 

🤖 Bridging the AI Skills Gap: How Gender Inequities Threaten To Deepen Talent Shortages

A Randstad report highlights a global AI skills gap, with men 42% more likely than women to report AI proficiency, warning that these inequities could exacerbate labor shortages amid ongoing talent scarcity.

Read more here.

🇮🇳 India’s Economic Shift: Rising Female Workforce and Surge in High-Income Earners

India’s economy is transforming with female workforce participation doubling to 41.7% and high-income taxpayers increasing five-fold to over 220,000 since 2017.

Read more here.

🏠 India’s Post-Pandemic Work Culture: Work-From-Home Options, Employee Flexibility, and Cost Savings

More than three years after the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study reveals that most Indian companies still offer work-from-home options, believing the benefits like cost savings and employee flexibility outweigh the drawbacks.

Read more here.

⚕ U.S. Healthcare Staffing: Market Contraction, Bill Rate Challenges, and Growth Opportunities

The U.S. healthcare staffing industry, following a 22% market contraction in 2023, is poised for consolidation amid declining bill rates and financial pressures, while nursing shortages, flexible staffing demand, and locum tenens growth present key opportunities, according to Staffing Industry Analysts.

Read more here.

🏢 Workforce in 2025: Embracing Generative AI, Skills-Based Hiring, and Evolving Compliance

ADP highlights five key workforce trends for 2025: generative AI, skills-based hiring, employee well-being, pay equity, and evolving compliance requirements

Read more here.

BY THE NUMBERS

🌎 2.7%. The percentage that the global GDP is forecast to grow next year, just above the consensus forecast from economists surveyed by Bloomberg and matching the estimated growth for 2024.

Read more here.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

🎙️ Catch up on the latest episodes of “Now Hiring! A Podcast About Staffing, Recruiting, and Talent,” including our recent conversation with Scot Goldfarb, Vice President of Avani Healthcare Staffing, on the current state of healthcare 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.