Hire Calling
Your source for all things hiring, staffing, and recruiting. Applying old school values in the modern workplace for candidates, employees, hiring managers, and recruiters.
Episodes
155 episodes
Breaking Job News: Banks Quietly Prepare for Workforce Cuts & CEOs Warn AI Will Weaken Hiring
The job market is sending mixed signals; hiring is inching forward while AI is accelerating fast enough to reshape entire industries. In today's Breaking Job News, host Pete Newsome breaks down new ManpowerGroup data showing a +27% U.S. hiring ...
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Breaking Job News: Parents Are Now Rethinking the Value of College & the Labor Market Freezes
The headlines say the job market is “cooling,” but the real story is far more revealing. Behind the flat JOLTS numbers, steady openings, steady hires, and another drop in quits, is a labor market that has stopped accelerating and started stabil...
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Breaking Job News: SHRM Faces $11.5M Discrimination Verdict & New Data Reveals 2026 Hiring Priorities
HR’s biggest watchdog just failed its own audit, and the fallout is a warning shot for every employer. Host Pete Newsome breaks down the $11.5M discrimination and retaliation verdict against SHRM, how a single conflict of interest unraveled the...
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Breaking Job News: What Workers Want In 2026 & Small Business Hiring Troubles
What if the 2026 job market isn’t what anyone expects? New survey data shows workers prioritizing pay, job security, and work-life balance over every office perk, and feeling more underpaid and uncertain than ever. Host Pete Newsome breaks down...
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Breaking Job News: Unemployment Claims Hit 2-Year Low—But Layoffs Are Still Surging?
The job market is sending mixed signals, record-low unemployment claims on one hand, nonstop layoff posts on your feed on the other. What’s really going on? In this episode, host Pete Newsome breaks down the contradiction and uncover the forces...
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Breaking Job News: MIT's AI Exposure Index Shocks Economists & 2025 Job Growth Only Came From Two Sectors
The biggest shift in today’s job market isn’t happening in tech; it’s happening in the everyday tasks no one talks about. MIT’s new Project Iceberg shows that while coding and engineering get the AI spotlight, the real exposure is buried in adm...
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Breaking Job News: Gig Work Is Shrinking & AI Can Automate Up to 57% of Your Job
Hiring slows, holiday roles stall, and the data tells a more complicated story than the headlines. Host Pete Newsome unpacks fresh numbers from ADP and The Conference Board to explain why the labor market feels soft even as certain indicators f...
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Breaking Job News: AI Driving Holiday Layoffs & Verizon’s Massive Cuts
Imagine opening the holidays with a layoff notice. For nearly a third of workers, that’s now a real possibility. A new national survey says nearly one in three companies plans to cut staff before New Year’s, and the reasons go far beyo...
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Breaking Job News: BLS Jobs Report Drama & 2026's 'Stable But Stuck' Forecast
What do you do when one of the most important signals in the labor market vanishes? Today's Breaking Job News dives into the unprecedented cancellation of October’s BLS Jobs Report and what it means to lose the unemployment rate, labor-force pa...
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Breaking Job News: "Godfather of AI" Says Half of White-Collar Jobs Will Vanish & Hiring Hits New Lows
The job market is shifting faster than anyone expected, and most people have no idea what’s coming. Hiring is slowing, mobility is freezing, and new AI warnings are targeting the exact white-collar jobs millions rely on. In today’s Breaking...
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Breaking Job News: Job Growth Is Flat, Tenure Shakeups, & Tri-State Job Cuts Deepen
The hiring headlines don’t match the reality, and that mismatch tells the real story. ADP’s latest data shows negative net job growth, yet the share of new hires is rising. How? Host Pete Newsome breaks down the hidden engine behind today’s lab...
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Breaking Job News: Shocking Quiet Firing Data, AI Hiring Laws, & Job Anxiety Is Growing
The workplace is transforming faster than anyone is prepared for, and today’s data reveals just how uneven the playing field has become. In this episode of Breaking Job News, host Pete Newsome breaks down the forces reshapi...
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Breaking Job News: Bad Time to Be a Grad
What if the real crisis for new grads isn’t a lack of jobs, but a hiring market that’s quietly been rewired? In today’s breaking job news, host Pete Newsome breaks down why landing that first role feels harder than ever and uncovers the structu...
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Breaking Job News: Skilled Labor Crisis Deepens Amid BLS Data Blackout
With BLS data frozen during the shutdown, there is no employment report, no CPI, and no benchmarks; employers, investors, and policymakers are suddenly flying blind. In today’s Breaking Job News, host Pete Newsome digs into how the loss of fede...
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Breaking Job News: Workers Lose Trust in Leadership & Holiday Jobs Disappear
The U.S. job market is caught in a strange paradox.Confidence is waning, small-business profits are shrinking, and holiday hiring has reached its weakest point in more than a decade. Yet millions of qualified candidates still can’t land ...
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Breaking Job News: The Shutdown Pay Deal That Is Shaking Washington & More Job Cuts
In today’s Breaking Job News headlines: Job cuts quietly rise, AI rewrites millions of roles, and Washington finally hits reset.The latest ADP data reveals private employers are trimming headcount as 2025 winds down. Small weekly losses ...
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Breaking Job News: America’s Job Market Faces a 3-Front War—AI, Fed Policy, and China’s Talent Grab
The headlines say the job market is holding firm, but is it really? Beneath the surface, wage growth is cooling, hiring appetite is softening, and the Fed’s latest moves reveal deeper cracks in the U.S. economy. In today's Breaking Job News...
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Breaking Job News: Job Postings Hit a 4-Year Low as Worker Confidence Falls
Headlines suggest a cooling job market, but the story becomes more interesting once you delve into the data and consider its implications for your next move. Host Pete Newsome opens with the latest numbers on job postings sliding toward pre-pan...
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Breaking Job News: America’s Vanishing Jobs, 2025 Pay Trends, & the Federal Pay Freeze
Is the job market really cooling or just recalibrating?New data from PayScale paints a more complex picture: unemployment is rising, participation is declining, yet wages are still increasing in critical, high-stakes sectors. Fro...
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Breaking Job News: Monster Reports a Holiday Hiring BOOM & New AI Job Titles Emerge
The job market just flipped, and AI is leading the charge.Today's Breaking Job News headlines are about new data revealing how generative AI has transitioned from pilot projects to everyday practice. A new Wharton study reveals ...
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Breaking Job News: YouTube Offers Voluntary Buyouts to Employees, Pay Drop, & Fewer Entry-Level Jobs
What happens when your next coworker isn’t human but a fully integrated AI agent?Today's Breaking Job News unpacks new data showing how artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of hiring, pay, and performance. Nearly half...
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Breaking Job News: America Reacts as AI Takes Over and 48,000 UPS Layoffs
Is AI really coming for our jobs or just rewriting them?Today's Breaking Job News episode dives into three stories reshaping the modern workplace: a national survey revealing how Americans truly feel about AI, a billion-dollar c...
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Breaking Job News: Amazon’s 14K Layoffs, ADP’s New Jobs Tracker, and the Rise of AI in Job Posts
When 14,000 jobs disappear overnight, it’s more than a headline; it’s a turning point. Amazon’s massive layoffs mark one of the year's most significant corporate contractions, driven by a bold bet on AI and automation. Host Pete Newsome breaks ...
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Breaking Job News: Elon Musk's Controversial AI Prediction, 750k Federal Workers Unpaid, & Hiring Scams
What if Elon Musk is right and AI really does replace every job? In today's Breaking Job News, host Pete Newsome unpacks what total automation could mean for workers, families, and the economy. From the promise of “optional...
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Breaking Job News: Meta Cuts Jobs to Focus on AI & Gartner Predicts 100% of IT Work Will Involve AI
The question isn’t whether AI will reshape your job; it’s how soon.From Meta’s latest layoffs inside its Superintelligence Lab to Gartner’s forecast that 100% of IT work will involve AI by 2030, these job market headlines connect the do...
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