Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kara Dennison writes about careers, leadership, and the job market. In the 2025 job market, hiring slowed as employers became more ...

Call it the Great Freeze — or the Great Frustration. Business Insider spoke with dozens of job seekers across generations in 2025, some of whom have been unemployed for more than a year. They voiced a ...

This year was a difficult one for Americans looking for work. Forecasters do not see much improvement in their prospects coming in 2026. The unemployment rate is set to remain elevated through almost ...

The health-care sector has powered job growth in the U.S. economy in 2025. That's largely because baby boomers are hurtling into their retirement years, boosting health-care demand since older adults ...

Working during college more than doubles graduates' odds of landing a job, a new survey finds, as competition grows for entry ...

As is the case for many young Americans, Ashley Terrell says her parents always had the expectation that she'd go to college and land a job in her chosen profession. More than a year after graduating, ...

As graduates enter a challenging job market marked by rising unemployment and experience gaps, experts suggest building ...

Ryan Jenkins, pictured above on Dec. 10, 2025, is the economic development coordinator for the city of Fairview Heights, Illinois. He encountered a rocky road on the path to finding a job. In July, ...

January shaped up to be a rough month for out-of-work Americans looking to quickly land a job. A slew of data releases this past week suggested that at the start of 2026, the job market remained stuck ...

Senate Democrats circulated numerous posts saying the state experienced 0% job growth in 2025, challenging Republicans' ...

It’s official: The jobless boom of Donald Trump’s first year back in office was even worse than we originally thought. A jobs report published Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics contained ...