Dana Taylor
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4,452 appearances
116 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 3d ago
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Today is Friday, August 21st, 2026.
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Joining me to examine what's going on in the job market is USA Today money reporter, Rachel Barber.
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Rachel, it's always good to speak with you.
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For people who've been job hunting for months and wondering, is it me?
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How much did your reporting suggest that the problem is actually the hiring system itself?
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The unemployment rate was still relatively low at four point one percent in July, so
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Why can a job market look fairly healthy on paper while the experience of actually trying to get hired feels so brutal?
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One of the people you spoke with said that volume has replaced intention.
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Applicants for open role has doubled since twenty twenty two, and recruiters are now sorting through hundreds of applications for a single hire.
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How does that sheer volume impact the process?
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How hard is that cycle to break?
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What are you hearing from applicants?
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AI seems to be supercharging that problem on both sides.
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Can you explain how and why that is?
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Let's shift to ghost jobs.
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Rachel, what are they and why might a company advertise a position that an unemployed applicant never had a realistic chance of getting?
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Some lawmakers are now saying employers should provide more transparency.
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New York lawmakers have passed legislation that would require larger employers to disclose whether, as you've described, a posting represents a current vacancy, a longer term opening, or simply an effort to collect resumes for the future.
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What rules would or are there rules that would meaningfully change the experience for job seekers?
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There's also a broader collapse of trust running through your reporting, misleading job descriptions, remote jobs that turn out to not be remote, suspicious recruiting messages and outright scams.
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