Welcome to the Career Economy! May 2025 Edition aka: Where we try to make sense of the job market so you don’t have to scream into the void. We’re still on the roller coaster. No exit in sight. April brought us another set of job numbers, a fresh round of revisions, and more questions than

Welcome to the Career Economy! The roller coaster continues…and I have a feeling we won’t be pulling to a stop for another three years and ten months. 😱 That means it’s either time to get out your air sickness bag or we need to change things up around here.   So this month—and likely for the

Welcome to the Career Economy! Writing about the labor economy right now continues to feel a little like reporting from the deck of a ship in a storm—except half the crew has been thrown overboard, and the captain is… well, let’s just say “preoccupied.” 🚢 Welcome to my corner of the world, where social-political-economic conversations

Welcome to the Career Economy! Writing a newsletter about the state of the labor economy on February 13, 2025, feels like being handed a hot potato and realizing there’s no one left in the room to toss it to—so here I am, holding the damn thing, trying to make sense of the chaos. And no

Welcome to the Career Economy! If you read this newsletter regularly, you know I try to find the silver lining among the crap shoot (I mean, let’s be real here) that has been the labor economy for the last 18 months.  I’ll give it to you straight: if you’re a tired job seeker, you’re in

Welcome to the Career Economy! What a week to write about the labor market and economy. 😵‍💫 Where do we start? This isn’t going to be a shortie….  Yes, the numbers were down last month.  Yes, global markets reacted (very important word).  Yes, unemployment went up. Things may be slowing down, and that’s to be

Welcome to the Career Economy! How is it already May 9th?  As we <gasp> head into the second half of the year, I’m seeing positive indicators of things to come. The overall labor economy continues to prove the markets wrong with its resilience and consistency, yet the professional/white-collar sectors are still feeling the pinch. Luckily,

Welcome to the Career Economy! How is it already May 9th?  As we <gasp> head into the second half of the year, I’m seeing positive indicators of things to come. The overall labor economy continues to prove the markets wrong with its resilience and consistency, yet the professional/white-collar sectors are still feeling the pinch. Luckily,

Welcome to the Career Economy! Is it possible to stick a soft landing while the market heats up? That may be just what’s happening. I have to start this month’s rundown with a conveniently timed bit of economic news that came out today – Goldman Sachs lowered the odds of a U.S. recession from 35%

Welcome to the Career Economy! Welp, I can say the prediction and good indicators I talked about in last month’s newsletter didn’t necessarily pan out like I thought they would. The beam of light that showed up around the Fourth of July ended up being a blip in the radar, as activity fell off again,

Welcome to the Career Economy! Is the cool-off here? Perhaps. But maybe not.  June hiring clocked in at just about 200k new jobs, falling fairly closely to predictions (225k) and, after a small surge in May, on pace with what we saw in February, March, and April.  Unemployment fell an insignificant tenth of a point, a potentially

Welcome to the Career Economy! While I wrap my head around the fact that we’re nearly midway through the year, and it is light out when I go to bed, another month of job data became available.  In short: hiring booms, unemployment rises, and the Fed tries to keep it cool. Yep, that’s pretty much it in

Welcome to the Career Economy! I can’t believe it’s already May!  Another month of data is in, and it’s time to fill you in on some interesting insights and my observations on what’s happening in the job market.  Over the past few weeks, I’ve been making a prediction about the market, and there are glimpses that it’s

Welcome to the Career Economy! The heat is…off? After substantial job growth in January (500k+ jobs) and higher-than-anticipated job growth in February, we’re finally seeing a slight cooldown in the labor market, as there’s been a gradual deceleration in new jobs since the start of the year.  That said, we saw a pretty solid performance in March

  Welcome to the Career Economy! Another month of employment data hit the scene last week. Between more job gains that outperformed predictions, two bank failures, loopy inflation, and a dwindling debt ceiling, I’ve got one thing to say about the current state of the career economy.  In the words of Samuel L. Jackson… Hold on to your butts, ’cause here

Career News got a facelift! Welcome to the Career Economy Newsletter!  → Don’t worry; this is the same fresh perspective, data-backed facts, and observations you’ve enjoyed for the past five years. It just got a new name  After a recent podcast appearance with my good friend Orlando Haynes, who titled the episode “Career Economy with Angie Callen,” I decided to run with

Here We are…January! The month all job seekers, career coaches, and resume writers wait for like 5-year-olds on Christmas morning.  While you may not have woken up a 4: 59 a.m. to peer out the window in the hopes of spying Santa’s sleigh, you may be a little restless thinking about what the market will bring this

The Scoop on the Job Market. D e c e m b e r   C a r e e r   N e w s  263,000 JOBS! How’s that for a “horrible economy” with “all the layoffs”? (I hope you detected the note of sarcasm in that line…) If I needed some validity to my perspective