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

Hi there,

Welcome to the inaugural edition of “Now Hiring: A Newsletter About Staffing, Recruiting, and Talent” – we’re so glad you’re here! 😀

We hope you’re excited to read our new monthly newsletter that curates the top stories impacting the staffing, recruiting, and talent industry, sprinkled with a little commentary for fun. 

Here are the five biggest stories over the past month: 

🤖 The Robots Continue To Transform Staffing and Recruiting 

About 4% of all U.S. firms have adopted generative artificial intelligence, but Goldman Sachs Research expects that figure to rise to 7% over the next six months. 

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🏥 New Research Shows Nurses Foresee Continued Challenges in Healthcare Industry

AMN Healthcare found that 80% of nurses anticipate either no improvement or worsening situations compared to 2023, with 42% predicting stability and 38% fearing it will worsen.

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🧑‍⚕️ The Healthcare Industry Must Upskill Workers To Retain Them

With the aging population and not enough healthcare workers, there's a push to use technology to meet the growing need for care. 

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⬆️ CEO Confidence Up, Recession Fears Down in Q2

The Conference Board Measure of CEO Confidence rose in the second-quarter report, with U.S. CEOs no longer anticipating a recession in the coming year and instead being cautiously optimistic following two years of gloom.

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💻 India’s IT Companies See Surge in Contractual Hiring 

India’s IT sector is witnessing a resurgence in contractual hiring, potentially signaling a demand for IT services following a year in which the IT industry posted job declines and conducted mass layoffs.  

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BY THE NUMBERS

📈 192,000. The number of U.S. jobs added to the private sector in April 2024, a decrease from the 208,000 jobs gained in March 2024, but the average pace of hiring is still accelerating. 

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

🌊 The Next Wave of Artificial Intelligence Is Here … Is Staffing and Recruiting Ready For It? 

Chris Dwyer, Senior Vice President of Research at Ardent Partners, examines how OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4o (“omni”) will impact staffing and recruiting as it attempts to blend technology and people. 

Read more here.

DROPPING SOON

🎙️ Ear-resistible Commentary About All Things Talent in “Now Hiring: A Podcast About Staffing, Recruiting, and Talent”

Join Ceipal Founder and CEO Sameer Penakalapati and an assortment of colleagues and subject matter experts as they take on the industry’s hottest topics and trends. Stay tuned for the launch of the “Now Hiring” podcast and the first episode next week!

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