Inside the February Jobs Report
It’s been another blockbuster month on the jobs front with 678,000 jobs added in February, surprising economists with one of the largest gains since the beginning of the pandemic. One…
Influencer Marketing and the Beauty Industry: How to Recruit the Best Candidates
The beauty industry is poised to grow from $420B in 2018 to $716.3B by 2025, according to Upfluence. Among thousands of products, the quest for brand differentiation is never-ending, meaning…
Marketing on TikTok: What it is and How to Recruit for it
TikTok is seemingly everywhere. The Chinese social network, originally launched in 2016 by ByteDance, has taken the globe by storm, and is especially popular among the tween and teen consumers…
Influencer Marketing in the Wine & Spirits Industry: Everything You Need to Know
The alcohol beverage market is poised for growth: it is expected to increase by nearly 19 percent by the year 2024. And savvy folks in the wines & spirits industry…
January 2022 Jobs Report
The January 2022 Jobs Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics stunned analysts with blockbuster numbers: a whopping 467,000 jobs added despite the Omicron wave tempering growth expectations. Even those…
Executive Recruiting in NYC in 2022: Special Opportunities and Challenges
The omnicron surge of the Coronavirus hit the New York City economy particularly hard. Consider some of the following stats from recent months: At the same time, many industries have…
E-commerce Executive Recruiting: Important Trends for 2022
Over the past few years, the demand for talented e-commerce executives — whether for top marketing managers, directors of digital, social media gurus, chief growth officers or some other leader…
Strategies for Hiring Key Executive Roles in a Private Equity Backed Company
Private equity backed companies are a unique challenge to recruit for. On the one hand, these types of companies need executives with proven track records, on the other hand, even…
Important Takeaways from the December 2021 Jobs Report
The economic recovery continues apace, as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in their December jobs report. Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 199,000 The unemployment rate declined…
Taking Stock of a Turbulent Year in Hiring with 8 Recruiting Predictions for 2022
As we look back on 2021 and look forward to what 2022 has in store for hiring and executive recruiting, we here at ACCUR are grateful for the growth and…
November Jobs Report: A Mixed Picture on Hiring
November has delivered moderate job gains of 210,000, according to the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The most notable job gains occurred in professional and business…
8 Must-Read Newsletters for Anyone Hiring or Wanting to Get Hired
Newsletters are increasingly a good way to stay abreast of major topics in the news that affect hiring. Here are some of our go-to sources of information, worth a subscribe…
Influencer Marketing: What it Is And How to Hire for It
The rise of social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok has also given rise to a new type of celebrity, the “social media influencer,” in other words an individual…
Behind Successful Celebrity-Owned Brands Look for Seasoned Executives
As social media continues to dominate our lives, celebrity-owned brands are attaining greater prominence, and a number of them have grown beyond the association of their famous founders and into…
Strong Gains in October Jobs Report
After a sluggish economic picture in September, in October, total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 531,000, and the unemployment rate edged down by 0.2 percentage point to 4.6 percent, the…
Anatomy of the Glossier Retail Experience
Since its founding in 2014 with an initial product launch of only four core items, Glossier has grown into a $1.8 billion dollar beauty juggernaut beloved by the most coveted…
ACCUR quoted in Financial Times Group’s CPG Specialist
ACCUR’s founder Edouard Thoumyre was recently quoted in the Financial Times Group’s CPG Specialist publication, which is a subscription only trade publication focused on the consumer packaged goods industry. In…
How Marketing Execs Can Meet the High Demand for Digital Skills Head On
There’s no two ways about it: marketing executives with strong digital skills have never been in higher demand. The digital transformation of business has required strong digital skills for the…
What is a VP of Growth and Do You Need One?
Along with positions like Chief Revenue Officer, VP of Growth is a relatively new executive position that attempts to fuse the world of sales, marketing, and product development into a…
Slowing Growth in the September Jobs Report
The September jobs report returned lower-than-expected growth and a decidedly mixed outlook on the overall economic recovery. The economy added 194,000 jobs, in contrast to nearly a million jobs added…
From e-Bikes to At-Home Exercise, Investors Eye Opportunity in Sports
2020 was a year that upended the sports market. New premium at-home exercise equipment took off while numerous adventurous souls ventured out into the great outdoors. Demand changes pushed supply…
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[New Poll] The Surprising Underpinnings of Return-to-Office Resistance
You want your employees to return to the office but many of them are highly resistant. But what’s really behind workers’ attachment to their work-from-home lifestyle, and how can they…
Why the Sporting Goods Industry is so hot right now
The COVID 19 pandemic has changed consumer behavior in myriad ways, from the sudden proliferation of QR codes to curbside pickup and online product launches and beyond. Amidst all of…
July Jobs Report: A Roaring Recovery
A major surge in hiring in July has sparked fresh optimism about the power of the economic recovery. The unemployment rate reached a new pandemic period low, and hiring continues…
Making the Most of Internal Talent in a Tight Labor Market
As the economy tightens and the competition remains fierce to retain the most talented workers, many companies are searching for innovative ways to retain talent. As with many thorny business…
Inside the Race to Build Profitable Businesses off the Amazon Ecosystem
If you spend time reading the business press, you may have heard of a company called Thrasio. This company acquires third party sellers on Amazon and scales them up into…
Best and Worst Cities for Remote Workers
A recent survey by Telstra Ventures looked at 371,000 jobs posted between April and June 30th of this year to find out what cities were most receptive to remote workers….
The Fastest-Growing Areas of Innovation in Los Angeles
While Los Angeles has long been known as the epicenter of the entertainment industry, the hospitable climate and highly talented labor force has meant that LA is rapidly becoming a…
June Jobs Report: Better Than Expect Growth
The economy added 850,000 jobs in June, a better than expected gain amid an economy recovering from the Coronavirus pandemic. Economists see this as a strong sign that the economy…
Staying Ahead of The Great Talent Migration
The American workforce is changing rapidly thanks to job mobility, a still-tight labor market, and technological advances. You could say that this change has been in the works for years…
How Companies are Incentivizing Returning to the Office
The rapid shift to remote work that was brought about by the pandemic naturally led many managers to question whether or not it was worth ever returning to the office….
Breaking Down the May Jobs Report
In contrast to the anemic April jobs report and the blockbuster report in March, the May jobs report has strong but measured signs for the economy in general. Hospitality continues…
4 Key Considerations for Your Return-To-Office Plan
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on corporate culture was so instantaneous and radical that even as life begins going back to “normal,” those in charge of making decisions about…
From Organic Wines to Gen Z Influencers: Top Trends in Wine for 2021
2020 represented a huge shift in the wine and spirits industry as the pandemic caused massive disruption to the way people imbibe. As the industry prepares for the post-pandemic landscape,…
Anemic April Jobs Report Has Good News for Hospitality
Based on the start of the year, many economists expected the April jobs report to continue the trend of rapid growth in numerous sectors as the world economy started to…
Which Companies Have the Most Incredible Employee Perks?
In a tight labor market, retaining employees is about more than just compensation. The most sought-after talent wants to work in an amazing location, get great benefits, and even brag…
The Benefits of a Crafting a Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
Employees increasingly expect the companies they work for to care about more than just the bottom line. What’s more, they expect companies to practice responsibility in the realm of philanthropy,…
ACCUR is in the Forbes top 100 Executive Search firms again in 2021!
Forbes has once again recognized ACCUR Recruiting Services as one of their top Executive Search firms and Professional Search firms for the year 2021. We respectively rank #57 and #42…
Survey of American Workers Finds a Quarter Looking for Change
Prudential Insurance recently did a “Pulse of the American Worker Survey” with Morning Consult in March 2021 which provided a number of eye-opening insights on the state of the American…
The Sustainability Report: Cosmetics Industry
Sustainability continues to be a topic that is top of mind for both consumers and employees of major companies. In a new series of articles, we’re looking at how the…
March Jobs Report Beats Expectations; Shows Strong Growth
The March Jobs Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics blew past previous expectations showing an economy primed for job growth as the nation recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic. The…
Recovery Report: Travel
As we’ve seen from prior jobs reports, the Travel industry has been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic and is one of the industries that has the furthest to go…
Recovery Report: Food and Beverage
The February 2021 Jobs Report was a blockbuster for those employed in the Food & Beverage industry. Four fifths of a substantial gain of 355,000 jobs in Leisure and Hospitality…
Robust Jobs Report Spells Great News for Food, Beverage and Hospitality
The February Jobs Report was just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics with great news for those in the leisure and hospitality sectors, and especially those in food and…
Pandemic Resource Roundup for E-Commerce, Luxury Retail, Beauty, Food & Wine and More
As we approach the one year anniversary of COVID-related shutdowns to the economy, we wanted to take a step back and examine all of the myriad ways businesses have had…
Jobs Report for January 2021
The latest jobs numbers were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, February 5, with much information to glean about the pandemic’s impact on key economic sectors. The…
Online Education Options to Boost Your Post-Pandemic Employability
We’ve written in the past about the massive range of online courses available to sharpen your skillset in sales, marketing, management and more. But with the pandemic changing the sort…
ACCUR in Patch: The South Florida Job Market
ACCUR Recruiting Services’ founder Edouard Thoumyre was recently quoted in Patch about the 2021 job outlook for Floridians, especially in the South Florida area. Edouard covered the following topics with…
ACCUR’s Year In Review: The COVID-inspired Trends to Watch
What an extraordinary year! Overnight, our client companies scrambled to reassemble their workforces, change distribution strategies and alter production schedules to deal with an unprecedented global pandemic. The year did…
Goldman Sachs Eyes South Florida For New Office, is Your Business Next?
The news that Goldman Sachs was looking for office space in South Florida made waves in the business world recently, but the New York stalwart is just one of many…