Cornering The Job Market
The job market is changing faster than most people realize. Headlines are noisy, data is often misunderstood, and bad advice spreads quickly. Cornering the Job Market cuts through the confusion with clear, data-backed insights on what is actually happening in hiring, work, careers, and the labor market now, and in the future.
Hosted by Pete Newsome, founder of one of America's top staffing and recruiting firms, this podcast breaks down the labor market from both sides of the table. Job seekers learn how employers are really making decisions. Hiring leaders and executives gain perspective on talent supply, candidate behavior, and where the market is heading next.
Each episode translates complex labor data into plain English and connects the dots between hiring trends, economic signals, AI adoption, wages, layoffs, and workforce strategy. The focus is not hype or fear; with context, clarity, and practical takeaways you can use immediately.
What you will hear on the show
- Weekly breakdowns of the U.S. job market using trusted data sources
- What hiring numbers actually mean for real people and real companies
- How AI is reshaping jobs, hiring, and career paths
- Why some roles stay in demand even during slowdowns
- What employers are prioritizing and what candidates often miss
- Honest conversations about layoffs, wage pressure, job hopping, and stability
- Tactical advice for job seekers at every career stage
- Strategic insight for HR leaders, hiring managers, and executives
Who this podcast is for
- Professionals navigating a competitive or uncertain job market
- Early and mid-career workers trying to future-proof their careers
- HR leaders and talent acquisition teams
- Hiring managers and executives making workforce decisions
- Anyone who wants clear, credible insight into where work is headed
Why Cornering the Job Market is different
This show is built on real hiring experience, not theory. The insights come from thousands of real job searches, real placements, and real conversations with employers and candidates across industries like IT, finance, healthcare, marketing, HR, and engineering.
The goal is simple. Help you understand the job market well enough to make better decisions, whether you are hiring, job searching, or planning your next move.
New episodes
New episodes drop regularly with timely commentary on breaking labor market news, hiring trends, and workplace shifts. Subscribe so you do not miss an update, especially when the market changes quickly.
Episodes
226 episodes
This Week in Jobs: How AI Is Changing Hiring, Pay, and Power At Work
AI isn't coming for work someday. It's already sitting in the seat next to you, quietly handling tasks, writing drafts, and redefining what good performance looks like.We talk with Ricky Baez about what he's seeing from HR and business l...
This Week in Jobs: Why Profitable Companies Keep Laying People Off
Profitable companies are handing out pink slips, and the explanations are starting to feel like a second insult. This week, we dig into Meta's 14,000 cuts, the wave rolling through Wall Street, and why "we're investing in AI" has become the cor...
The Week In Jobs: Massive Layoffs for Snap & Disney and New Grads Struggling to Get Jobs
Layoffs are starting to come with a familiar punchline: “AI made us do it.” We talk through what that story means when companies like Snap cut staff and still get rewarded by the market, and why Disney’s more traditional “restructuring” explana...
This Week in Jobs: Reading Between the Jobs Numbers (Can We Trust It?)
The headline jobs numbers look reassuring... until you dig into the revisions. We break down what the new BLS report actually says, why the quiet corrections matter, and how ADP payroll data shifts the picture. Then the bigger quest...
Breaking Job News: The US Workforce Is Shrinking & the Numbers Are Worse Than Anyone Expected
The mainstream narrative says the economy is holding steady, but the data underneath says something different. The US labor force participation rate just hit its lowest point since 1977, and the forces driving it down (aging retirements, declin...
Breaking Job News: Tech Worker Confidence Just Collapsed, So Why Is Hiring Actually Getting Better?
Two data points just dropped that seem to contradict each other, and host Pete Newsome breaks down what's actually going on behind both of them. Glassdoor just recorded the largest year over year confidence decline it has ever measured in any i...
Breaking Job News: LinkedIn's Fake Profile Crisis, AI Reshaping 55% of Jobs, & Why the Jobs Report Number You Watch Is Outdated
LinkedIn detected 83 million fake profiles and 117 million scam incidents in just the first half of 2025. Job scam losses have increased fivefold since 2020 to more than $500 million annually. In today's episode, host Pete Newsome breaks down h...
March Jobs Report Breakdown - 178,000 Added & What They're Not Telling You
The March BLS jobs report headline looks decent. The reality underneath it doesn't. In today's episode, host Pete Newsome breaks down what the mainstream coverage will gloss over: a shrinking labor force, surging discouraged workers, falling ho...
Breaking Job News: For the First Time Ever, AI Is the #1 Reason Companies Are Cutting Jobs
AI just became the number one stated reason US employers are cutting jobs, and the speed of that shift is what makes this moment worth paying attention to. In today's episode, host Pete Newsome breaks down the Challenger Gray and Christmas Marc...
Breaking Jobs News: Oracle Fires 30,000 by Email & the AI Gender Gap Nobody's Talking About
Oracle just laid off up to 30,000 workers and delivered the news via a 6am email with no manager warning and immediate system access cutoff. In today's episode, Pete Newsome breaks down the details: what Oracle says the money will fund and what...
Breaking Job News: Worst Hiring Rate Since COVID - What the JOLTS Report Really Says
The February JOLTS report just dropped, and the headline number demands attention. Hires fell to 4.8 million, down nearly 500,000 in a single month, pushing the hires rate to 3.1%, the lowest reading since April 2020. In today's epi...
Breaking Job News: AI Could Eliminate 9.3 Million Jobs - Are You in a Risk City?
A major new study just mapped AI job risk across every metro area and every state in the country, and the findings are more alarming than most coverage suggests. The cities facing the largest projected losses are the innovation capitals everyon...
Goldman Sachs Forecasts 10K Job Losses Per Month, H-1B Wage Reform, & Why Skilled Trades Workers Are the Most Optimistic People in the Labor Market
Goldman Sachs is projecting that rising oil prices could shave roughly 10,000 jobs a month from US payroll growth through the end of 2026, with unemployment expected to climb to 4.6% by Q3. Host Pete Newsome breaks down the sectors most at risk...
Trades Now Harder to Fill Than Tech Jobs, Retirees Returning to Work, & New Unemployment Data
One of the job market's longest-standing assumptions just got flipped. A new Randstad analysis of more than 150 million job postings found that skilled trades roles now take longer to fill than software developer positions, and the demand gap i...
Breaking Job News: Epic Games Cuts 1K Jobs, Only 1 in 4 Workers Feel Secure, & a Free Government AI Course You Can Take by Text
Today's headlines cover three stories that together paint a clear picture of exactly where the workforce stands right now.Host Pete Newsome starts with a new ADP Research report, the largest of its kind, surveying more than 39,000 worker...
Breaking Job News: Workers Are Struggling Like Never Before, Healthcare Is Carrying the Economy, & What CFOs Really Think About AI
Gallup just released findings that should have every employer paying close attention. For the first time on record, more American workers say they're struggling than thriving, and the reasons go deeper than job dissatisfaction. Host Pete Newsom...
Breaking Job News: Young Americans Are Abandoning Desk Jobs, Mass AI Layoffs Hit Crypto, & a Fortune 500 CEO's Alarming Prediction
Today's headlines all tell the same story from different angles: AI is reshaping the workforce faster than most people are prepared for, and the workers feeling it first are the ones just getting started.Host Pete Newsome breaks down new...
Breaking Job News: Goldman Sachs Surprise Cuts & Why 91% of HR Leaders Are Worried About AI
New data reveals where AI is actually taking over inside corporate America, and it's happening faster than most workers realize. In this episode, host Pete Newsome breaks down a major new Gallup survey showing why accountability is the one lead...
Breaking Job News: Stanford Economists Warn the Career Pyramid Is Becoming a Diamond
AI is already changing how careers begin, and the data is starting to prove it. In today’s episode of Cornering the Job Market, host Pete Newsome breaks down new research from a panel of economists at Stanford University showing that hiring for...
Breaking Job News: CEOs Aren’t Hiring, Another AI Layoff, & Grads Can’t Find Work
The job market keeps sending mixed signals, and today’s headlines highlight just how disconnected the system has become.In today's episode of Cornering the Job Market, host Pete Newsome breaks down new data from Business Roundtable, whe...
Breaking Job News: BlackRock Bets $100M on Trades While Volkswagen Cuts 50,000 Jobs
A $100 million bet on the skilled trades. A global automaker cutting 50,000 jobs. And new hiring data that suggests employers may be more optimistic than the headlines imply.In today’s episode of Cornering the Job Market, host Pete News...
Breaking Job News: The Jobs AI Is Killing… And the Ones It’s Creating
AI isn’t theoretical anymore... It’s profitable.A new global Snowflake survey of 3,400+ companies reveals that 92% of early AI adopters are seeing positive returns, with average ROI hitting 49%. Companies are making money. Real money.
Today's Job Market Data Is Bad. Here's How Bad.
Corporate layoffs are rising at the fastest pace since the Great Recession, and at the same time, Washington is quietly hiring back federal workers after cutting more than 387,000 jobs.In today’s Breaking Job News, host Pete Newsome bre...
Breaking Job News: BLS Reports 92,000 Jobs Lost, 69,000 Revised Away
The February jobs report just dropped, and the headline is rough. U.S. payrolls fell by 92,000 in February, reversing much of January’s already revised gains. Unemployment ticked up to 4.4%, long-term unemployment jumped 27% year over year, and...
Breaking Job News: Hiring Slows Nationwide as Profitable Firms Cut Jobs
Layoffs are down, but hiring is falling even faster. In today’s Cornering the Job Market, host Pete Newsome breaks down a wave of new labor market data that reveals a troubling pattern: companies aren’t cutting aggressively anymore, but they’re...