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

Hi readers,

With Q1 coming to a close and spring underway, here’s a roundup of the week’s top workforce stories—from tech transformations to talent challenges across the globe:

🌍 Global Economic Growth To Slow in 2025, OECD Says

The OECD projects global economic growth will ease to 2.9% in 2025, down from 3.1% in 2024, amid high interest rates and slowing labor market momentum.

Read more here.

🧠 GenAI Set To Transform Recruitment, Streamline Hiring Processes

Generative AI is revolutionizing recruitment by enhancing candidate sourcing, reducing time-to-hire, and improving decision-making.

Read more here. 

🔄 Mid-Career Professionals Urged To Reskill as AI Disrupts Job Market

As AI rapidly transforms industries, experts warn that mid-career professionals must embrace continuous reskilling to stay relevant and avoid obsolescence.

Read more here.

🚑 Health Systems Struggle To Manage Emergency Department Overflow

Hospitals across the U.S. are facing challenges in handling emergency department crowding, with staffing shortages and high patient volumes straining resources.

Read more here.

👩‍💻 Women’s Workforce Representation in IT Services Reaches 21.2% in 2024

Women made up 21.2% of India’s IT services workforce in 2024, reflecting slow but steady progress in gender diversity.

Read more here.

🔢 By the Numbers

72%. The percentage of IT and engineering hiring managers who say they’re struggling to find candidates with the right skill sets—highlighting a growing talent gap, per Ceipal’s new report, The Most In-Demand Job Skills in IT & Engineering: The Evolving Skills Landscape.

Download the report here.

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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.