What the AI Hiring Wave Actually Changed
The visible effect was not mass replacement but an arms race in application volume that made every part of hiring slower and more suspicious.
Job Market
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Contract, Temp or Permanent: How to Choose
Permanent work is not the safe default and contracting is not the risky one — the real trade is between income stability and speed of access.
Where Hiring Is Actually Growing This Year
Headline unemployment numbers hide a market that has split in two. Some sectors are posting more roles than at any point since 2022; others have effectively stopped.
Pay Transparency Rules and What They Change for You
Published salary bands look like an answer. They are a constraint on the employer, and reading them correctly is a skill.
Which Job Boards Are Worth Your Time
Most boards are a mirror of other boards, and the useful signal is not which listings exist but which ones are fresh.
Return-to-Office Rules Have Split the Job Market in Two
Remote postings are a shrinking share of listings and an outsized share of applications. That imbalance is now shaping pay, seniority and who gets hired.
Why Hiring Takes So Long Now
Delay is usually a symptom of approval layers and calendars rather than of doubt about you, and reading it correctly changes what you do next.