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In this week’s newsletter:

• 🚀 Launching the Offboard Tool Directory

• 📈 Market Trends this Week

• 📰 Notable Headlines

• 🛠️ Job Seeker Tools 

🚀 Launching the Offboard Tool Directory

Categories such as Interview Prep, Upskilling, Mentorship, & more!

Each week, we scour the web to uncover the best, and latest, tools that job seekers can leverage to make their job search more efficient. Now, all of those tools will live in one location, organized in a way to help you find what you need.

🚀 Market Trends this Week

Job Market: Optimistic or Not?

The economic outlook on in the job market has been fluctuating between optimism and pessimism due to fears of a major recession and high inflation. Roughly a year ago, business leaders and economists started sounding the alarm and bracing for a significant recession.

Although the most severe anxieties have not come to pass, largely due to an unanticipatedly robust labor market and consumer expenditure, the root cause of those fears from a year ago - high inflation - remains unresolved.

Key Trends to Watch with June’s Job Report

• Slower job growth is expected, though it is likely to remain above the 200,000 monthly benchmark.

• The unemployment rate is expected to increase for a second consecutive month, likely to 3.9 percent.

• Wage growth is expected to slow to 4.2 percent, which is still high by historic standards.

📈 Notable Headlines:

• Women are returning to the job market in droves, just when the U.S. needs them most - NPR

  • “In May, the share of working-age women between 25 and 54 who are working or looking for work hit 77.6% — an all-time high.”

• Labor Market Headfake? Key Report Could Be Overestimating Job Growth - Wall Street Journal

  • “…some economists say the job market might actually be weaker, and the economy closer to recession, than those figures imply. The reason: quirks in how the payroll data are calculated.”

• No Summer Vacation? You're Not Alone - Newsweek

  • Higher cost of living, and uncertain economic times, is making workers less inclined to take time off or go on vacation

🎧 Listen While You Read

🛠️ Job Seeker Tools

ADPList

adplist.org

Learn and grow with help from world-class mentors for free!

Plato

platohq.com

Plato is a Community for Engineering Leaders. Engage in 1-on-1 Mentorship, Benefit from Cohort-Based Learning, and Access Exclusive Content.

Eyevisor

eyevisor.automix.ai 

Get the professional advice from AI you need to get your career on track. It will be in a sarcastic or serious way.

A WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice is a notice required by the federal WARN Act in the United States, which mandates that employers with 100 or more employees provide at least 60 days advance written notice of a plant closing or mass layoff affecting 50 or more employees.

WARNtracker.com tracks these and conveniently displays them in a database. They have also recently launched a new job board with 16,000+ jobs from over 300 companies! [website]