Will be interesting to see and I hope it is recovering!
I’m somewhat casually job hunting, but not super serious or aggressive. Locally and anecdotally, things are pretty abysmal. I know it’s a biased assessment, but I don’t think it’s that far off (for my area).
The listings on places like Indeed and CareerBuilder are lacking and lots of problematic posts with all the standard issues we all know of – and then some.
I often check business websites directly as most of the larger and more established places will have a jobs/career section directly on their site (even if it’s just an embedded widget of job listings from CareerBuilder). So many places have completely empty jobs pages, very limited Senior Director / very high end listings only, or tangential stuff like “HR associate”. I looked at 4 places today, all empty “Join our team” pages, and that’s not unusual at all.
Then I talk to former coworkers, acquaintances, and friends in the tech industry. They talk about how there are hiring freezes right now, layoffs looming, no bonuses / no cost of living increases coming this year (or last). That’s been going on for over a year with no expressed optimism about it changing, just a bunch of people who are stressed to the max, stretched to the max, but can’t afford to leave.
A lot of the basic free lance stuff (like simple website development) has dried up as well. Businesses are cutting back on costs and willing to accept the slop that AI generates (for free!) or skip out entirely and just have a Facebook page.
Will be interesting to see and I hope it is recovering!
I’m somewhat casually job hunting, but not super serious or aggressive. Locally and anecdotally, things are pretty abysmal. I know it’s a biased assessment, but I don’t think it’s that far off (for my area).
The listings on places like Indeed and CareerBuilder are lacking and lots of problematic posts with all the standard issues we all know of – and then some.
I often check business websites directly as most of the larger and more established places will have a jobs/career section directly on their site (even if it’s just an embedded widget of job listings from CareerBuilder). So many places have completely empty jobs pages, very limited Senior Director / very high end listings only, or tangential stuff like “HR associate”. I looked at 4 places today, all empty “Join our team” pages, and that’s not unusual at all.
Then I talk to former coworkers, acquaintances, and friends in the tech industry. They talk about how there are hiring freezes right now, layoffs looming, no bonuses / no cost of living increases coming this year (or last). That’s been going on for over a year with no expressed optimism about it changing, just a bunch of people who are stressed to the max, stretched to the max, but can’t afford to leave.
A lot of the basic free lance stuff (like simple website development) has dried up as well. Businesses are cutting back on costs and willing to accept the slop that AI generates (for free!) or skip out entirely and just have a Facebook page.