Rachel Barber

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The Excerpt · The job market says hiring is robust. Job seekers disagree. · 21 Aug 2026 podcast

work to be employed.

In July, 264,000 people left the workforce.

And that's after 720,000 people left in June.

Over the last year, about 1.3 million Americans have made their exit.

So people are leaving for a large variety of reasons.

Some experts theorize that

One of those reasons may be because of burnout from the job search.

So I just want to point out like sort of where this all started.

We saw the explosion of remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic and thereafter.

So that led to more applicants vying for the same jobs around the country instead of just competing with those in their area or those willing to relocate for a position.

So now recruiters, whereas they used to review 100 applications per

Role in early 2021.

They're now reviewing about 291 applications per hire.

That's according to a survey that I cite in the story.

So essentially, what this looks like is employers are receiving hundreds of applications that they say realistically they cannot respond to all of them.

But then the applicants who aren't getting a response upon not hearing that.

back, think, okay, well then I'll just apply to more jobs.

So then the cycle continues.

At a broad level, it may be hard to break.

Um, you can't really just tell everyone, like, hey, stop applying to jobs or tell companies, hey, stop accepting so many applications.

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