Kurt Rink

📊 U.S. Labor Market Update – March 2025 The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) reveals a nuanced picture of the U.S. labor market: Job Openings: Decreased by 288,000 to 7.192 million, indicating a potential softening in labor demand. Layoffs: Declined by 222,000 to 1.558 million, suggesting employers are retaining their workforce despite economic uncertainties. Hiring: Experienced a modest increase of 41,000 to 5.411 million, reflecting cautious optimism among businesses. These figures suggest that while employers are becoming more selective in their hiring processes, they are also striving to maintain stability within their existing teams. For organizations, this environment underscores the importance of strategic talent management. At ProActivate, we specialize in proactive talent acquisition strategies that align with your business goals, ensuring you're prepared for both current challenges and future opportunities. 📈 Stay informed and ahead of the curve. Let's discuss how we can support your talent needs in this evolving landscape. #LaborMarket #HiringTrends #ProActivate #TalentStrategy #WorkforcePlanning

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Our Minutemen Staffing corporate LinkedIn page features a series of thought leadership articles and market insights specifically relevant to organizations that utilize temporary and contingent labor.  Recent posts include: C11 EAD Revocations – What they mean for workforce availability and compliance. Navigating Workforce Volatility – Strategies to maintain stability in unpredictable markets. How Immigration Enforcement Is Reshaping the Light Industrial Workforce – Key compliance considerations. Leveraging Social Media for Recruiting – Best practices to attract qualified talent. …and many more topics relevant to labor strategy, compliance, and cost control.   You can explore these articles and follow our page here: https://lnkd.in/ef_qr5TJ

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Greg is spot-on. RPO is evolving, and it’s exciting to see modular, targeted approaches gaining traction. The best part? Flexibility doesn’t mean losing the human touch. Keeping candidates and teams supported ensures these new models aren’t just efficient; they’re effective.

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Recruiting efficiency is not measured by how many requisitions are open or how busy teams appear. It is measured by outcomes that protect business stability. In volatile markets, flexible RPO models only prove their value when they reduce time to fill without sacrificing quality, maintain consistent hiring standards as demand rises and falls, and give leaders clear visibility into what each hiring effort actually costs. That level of transparency matters because scalability without measurement is just movement. When leaders can see where flexibility improves speed, quality, and spending discipline, it stops being a promise and becomes a performance lever.

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I attended a Staffing Industry Analysts webinar last week. The Webinar covered trends in various Staffing markets, most notably Technology. Some of the key takeaways are below. The recovery is real. 🟡 Tech Staffing was -10% in 2023. -6% in 2024. Forecast to return to growth in 2026. ⚫ 40% of Tech firms reported revenue growth in December. In April, that number was flat. 🟡 New orders are following the same direction. Not all of Tech is recovering equally. The roles and disciplines seeing the strongest demand: 🟡 Cyber — ransomware/phishing incidents are accelerating client spend here. ⚫ Cloud — clients are building the infrastructure AI actually needs. 🟡 Data — the foundation that underpins everything AI related. ⚫ Product — strong bill rate and volume growth. There was a consensus that software developers and web developers were under the most pressure. AI is compressing demand at the commoditized end of that market. The smarter firms are moving into Solutions. 🟡 Margin in pure staffing is tight. ⚫ IT consulting and solutions businesses are running significantly higher gross margins. 🟡 Clients want partners, not just suppliers. ⚫ IT Solutions now accounts for 27% of combined IT revenue — up from 24% just a year ago. Finally, the impact of AI is less dramatic than the headlines suggest. Three public company CEOs said broadly the same thing last week. 💬 Client infrastructure isn't ready. 💬 Spend is actually going up in cloud, security and modernization. 💬 The disruption is real but narrow. The compression is happening at the commoditized end. The specialist, senior end of the market remains intact. Clarity R2R | Staffing Industry Analysts | James Ward | Marcus Davies

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