Employers continued to hire modestly in December and the unemployment rate declined, federal data showed on Friday, but hiring across 2025 was the weakest in five years, driven in part by government ...

2025 was marked by relatively strong job growth in the first few months, followed by cooling, with some months showing net job losses after revisions.

Job seekers in 2025 have faced a challenging hiring landscape. Companies aren't hiring at the same levels they used to, and applicants report facing stiff competition. AI screening résumés, employers ...

Even in the best of times, searching for a first job after college is an exercise in patience, resilience, and coping with rejection. And these are not the best of times. Companies have no idea which ...

Cheryl Wilson’s résumé is near perfect. She has worked all her life, notching decades of experience at back-to-back corporate jobs that often tapped her to train new hires. But after a software ...

U.S. employers increased available jobs in October to the highest level in five months, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday, as the labor market showed signs of cooling, including a ...

Check back for more updates. Job openings in the U.S. rose sharply in the fall and layoffs remained low as businesses geared up for the holiday shopping season , but the number of people actually ...

Initial applications for unemployment benefits in the week through Saturday plunged from already low levels, in an outlier move, by 27,000 from the prior week to 191,000, seasonally adjusted, the ...

Small businesses are starting to crack amid a weakening economy, rising costs and fickle consumers; and they drove job losses in the US private sector in November, payroll giant ADP reported Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Carly Kaprive left a job in Kansas City and moved to Chicago a year ago, she figured it would take three to six months to find a new position. After all, the 32-year old project ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Despite a historically low 4.3% unemployment rate, American jobseekers face the slowest hiring pace in over a ...

For most of 2025, the job market was described by economists as "no hire, no fire" — a stretch of time when job seekers faced slim prospects, but workers could count on job security. But that fragile ...