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[buzzsprout episode='11000699' player='true'] I'm not sure why, but I felt strongly that I needed to hop on and create an emergency broadcast to push the word out. Layoffs are not somewhere off in the distance. They are in the here and the now. Please, please do not be...

Photo by Mad Fish Digital on Unsplash   Want to be sure you get plenty of clicks and interactions? Throw out some generational clickbait and let the games begin. 😣     As I mentioned in last Saturday's broadcast: if someone is still doing contingency-based staffing, WTH are you thinking?...

Photo credit to: https://unsplash.com/@markuswinkler "ADP said Thursday it will pause the release of its private-sector employment report as it 'retools' the methodology to make it 'a more robust, high-frequency view of the labor market and trajectory of economic growth.' The ADP report has attracted criticism for being...

[buzzsprout episode='10976183' player='true'] In this bonus episode, I will answer some viewer mail about the job market and why I say if you wait to be "officially" told, it's too late. ✔️ During the TP shortage of 2020, how did people behave? Did they form an orderly...

[buzzsprout episode='10934793' player='true'] Saturday broadcast, 7/10 - 7/15. Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news. ✔️5.7 million unemployed people were not counted in that June Jobs Report that sounded so good but hey: everyone's doin' great! Also: "maybe remote work is not forever." Warned y'all about that. ✔️Meta is telling coasters and...

Photo credit to: https://unsplash.com/@ashkfor121. Boilerplate here: I am not a professional financial planner or advisor. I don't sit on the WEF. I'm not a real estate agent or mortgage broker. I'm not an all-seeing oracle. This is not advice. It is for your entertainment only. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn6Y7yxrReg[/embedyt]   A...

I'll just sit this down right here: Bold of this guy to assume that I'm incapable of doing my own research. Also bold of him to instruct me not to watch any news. To be clear: I'm not a proponent of watching 24/7 news. I think...

I'll be talking about this in more detail in my next Saturday broadcast, but in the meantime: Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm   Please consider such things when evaluating whether that June Jobs Report was really as stellar as it seemed to be. 😣   *** For exclusive content you won’t find here, become...