This is a massive surprise to the upside, we've seen all these headlines about layoffs and probably just experiences with inflation have a chilling effect on job seekers in recent months.

Julia Pollak

We've seen all these headlines about layoffs and probably just experiences with inflation have a chilling effect on job seekers in recent months, and yet we see in this report that businesses appear to be hiring in full force.

There are all kinds of productivity benefits from using more full-time workers, it has huge retention benefits. Many companies realize [ one way ] their hiring problems are over is if their retention problems are fixed.

That can work if there's a constant supply of new job candidates, but some companies have exhausted the supply of available workers they can hire, so that's not a feasible model.

People typically hold multiple jobs when they have the opportunity to do so, rather than when they need to do so.

This may be another one of those things that the minute there is some slack in the labor market, and companies see their revenue fall, there will be a conversion back to what we've seen before.

When you apply to 10 jobs and you get rejected from all of them, you feel as though it's your own failing and it's a reflection on you, it can harm people's confidence and self-esteem much worse than failures in other markets because what you are pitching is your labor and time and care.

Timing is everything, if you apply in the first week that a job is posted, you have a much higher chance of getting that job. Many hiring managers and companies only look at applications that come in during the first week.

Make sure Marlo Lyons materials... are very computer readable -- they don't have fancy tables and have crazy formatting, a lot of people make mistakes by being too fancy and they stop themselves from getting through the first hoop because they don't write a resume that is readable by robots.

You can have a company that is very openly, publicly committed to pay transparency, but if they really want a candidate who requires more to take the job than they initially offer, they can find ways to make that posted salary range still hold, companies can find all kinds of creative ways to get around these requirements.

A tightening labor market does appear to have caused more companies to disclose pay rates.

Employers in a labor shortage environment don't want to create any barrier for employment, let alone any cause for people to go elsewhere.

There is plenty of evidence that much of the shift to working from home will be permanent.