Scammers love to prey on hope, and with a 4.3 percent unemployment rate in the U.S. as of August 2025, they’ve got a lot of hopeful job seekers to pounce on. No matter the economic environment, though ...

Job seekers are officially hitting a breaking point. After a year of lackluster hiring and an increasingly demoralizing job-search process, many are sitting out the slog of finding new work altogether ...

Harris started looking for his first real job months before his graduation from UC Davis this spring. He had a solid résumé, he thought: a paid internship at a civic-consulting firm, years of ...

Job scams, thousands of applicants, getting ghosted by recruiters (if you hear from them at all): There are endless and completely valid reasons why people are tired of applying to jobs online. But ...

The word of the year may as well be "layoffs" as tech giants and the federal government slash jobs left and right. Estimates indicate as many as 200,000 federal workers will be impacted in the latest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Julia Korn writes about leadership and career development. Getting a job is tough right now. Job openings have dropped 40% since ...

The employment situation in America has changed dramatically in recent years. Companies are struggling to find enough workers. There is a labor shortage, which should make it a good time to find a job ...

A reader asks: My former boss once required our entire team to work through the weekend, completing a quarterly financial report. The report wasn’t really urgent. My best friend was getting married ...

TikTok is buzzing with unemployed Gen Z graduates scrambling to secure a career in the current tough job market. But even millennials—who joined the workforce in the fallout from the 2008 financial ...

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