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How Award Staffing Uses JobsEQ to Become a Trusted Partner to Their Clients

Traditional staffing companies source and place candidates into open roles for clients, and aid job seekers in finding employment. Award Staffing, an industrial staffing agency based in the Twin...
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An Update on the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Women in the Workforce

A lot has changed since our first blog on this topic in late 2021, and newly released data shed additional light on the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on female employment and its continued...
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2022 Job Ad Trends

What trended in the workforce in 2022 and what does that hold for 2023? This article explores that question using the RTI[1] jobs ad dataset from JobsEQ. The Overall Market New online job ad volume...
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Accuracy Matters: Benchmarking Diversity

A company grading themself on staffing diversity needs to pick the proper benchmark. There are a variety of available labor market data related to diversity and choosing the wrong data could easily...
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Labor Day Indicators Point to "Employees" Market

This article was originally published in the Richmond Times Dispatch on September 5, 2022. As we celebrate our third Labor Day in what is hopefully a waning pandemic, the labor market remains tight....
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A look at Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Policies in Corporate America

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices are becoming increasingly important in organizations and companies across the United States. Corporate America has been turning its attention to...
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Inflation, Supply Chain Issues Dampen 4th of July Celebrations

It seems likely that more people will be celebrating Independence Day on Monday than did in 2020 or 2021, but rising prices are expected to keep celebrations from reaching pre-pandemic levels again....
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How are Americans Celebrating Father’s Day? | Chmura

With inflation jumping to 8.6% over the last 12 months ending with May 2022 and eroding consumer spending power, what gifts can dads expect this year? How much will their children spend on them? The...
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Accuracy Matters: Imputing Zip-Level Employment

JobsEQ incorporates a collection of sources for estimating industry employment at the zip-code level. [1] Two of the prime sources used are LODES[2] and Zip Code Business Patterns (ZBP), [3] both...
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