Today’s Job Market is…Different

    In the past few weeks friends of mine looking for new jobs were astounded when they didn’t get a call back from a few applications. They turned to their resident labor market nerd (hand raised) just to say, “this feels different…” to which I respond,...

Career Awareness is Bigger than Workforce

  According to federal studies and surveys, 20.9 million American adults consider themselves to be in recovery from substance use disorder and 38.8 million consider themselves to be in recovery from a mental health issue. This recovery month Invest Hamilton...

Getting Started: Mental Health at Work

  In this month’s memo – video style – Mike talks with Paul Ashley, VP & Consultant for NFP, a benefits advisory firm, about how and where employers can start their mental health and wellbeing journey. They discuss their own experiences with...

Local Labor Market 2023 Midyear Review

  Amid the fears of recession, impacts of inflation and the tumultuous nature of consumer spending in our economy comes very real impacts on what is still a very hot (but cooling) labor market. Talent is still in very short supply and more expensive than ever...