Callum Borchers

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why Looking for a Job This Year Could Be Less Miserable · 15 Jan 2025 podcast

I hear from these people all the time.

They've been looking for six months.

And if you're listening to me right now with some skepticism, look, I totally get it.

You have to look at those indicators from the CEO saying we expect to make these hires in the coming years and take that as a sign of encouragement.

What's changed is maybe we finally hit the trough, Ariana.

At least we can hope for that, because if you talk to three quarters of CEOs who run large companies, they say they think the global economy is going to improve in the first half of this year.

And that's a big jump, because when you asked them at the beginning of last year, only 45 percent said the same thing.

And optimistic bosses are more likely to make hires.

Yeah, that's part of it.

And the election was a factor as well.

You know, I talked to Brandy Britton, who is in Robert Half's finance and accounting practice, and she said she was hearing a lot from clients that they were holding off on filling roles until after the election.

More than anything, they wanted clarity, right?

Businesses don't like uncertainty.

Now they have that clarity, new administration coming in, and they say that they're ready to move forward with posting some of those jobs.

Yeah, it's not set in stone.

And I will say part of the optimism that we heard from those CEOs in those surveys was tied to an expectation that with a Republican administration coming in, we may have lower taxes, maybe fewer regulations.

Politically, whatever you think of those things, businesses often like those and they might think then they have a little bit more capital to spend on hiring.

The other side of that is if those expectations are not met, if we don't see fewer regulations or if we don't see lower taxes, then perhaps we won't see the hiring boost either.

I hear from these people all the time, Arianna.

They've been looking for six months.

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