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The labor market during the coronavirus pandemic recovery has coming roaring back, making an already-tight labor market even more tricky to navigate. This has led to a situation that many…
The pandemic sparked changes to the wholesale business that are continuing to be felt as the nation deals with record inflation, changing consumer patterns and supply chain disruption. Today we…
The particular challenges of this labor market, where hiring is strong and it’s difficult to find qualified candidates but there are also challenges around inflation and new demands for work-from-home…
June continued the trend of strong hiring with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that total nonfarm payroll employment has risen by 372,000 in June. The unemployment rate remained…
We recently looked at the way the pandemic has transformed the economy in numerous ways, including: Changing where and how people work Changing the type of skills needed as the…
The economic recovery over the past year has been remarkable: most sectors have recovered their pre-pandemic levels of employment and the unemployment rate is almost as low as it was…
As employers adapt to a post-pandemic hiring landscape, ACCUR Recruiting Services has been called on to comment on the world of recruiting in a tight labor market. Here are our…
Amid record high inflation and recessionary fears, the American economy added 390,000 jobs in May. This outperformed the forecasts of economists, and took place against a low employment rate of…
The pandemic has made the position “Head of E-commerce” hotter than ever. Businesses know how essential e-commerce is to their operations and the pandemic has only made it more essential…
Have you heard the news? Thanks to changes to the economy wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are rapidly shifting gears from the “decade of the customer” to the “decade…
Employment increased by 428,000 in April, with the unemployment rate remaining unchanged at 3.6 percent, as reported recently by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report detailed job growth…
As companies increasingly look to incentives to get their employees back to the office, Newsweek reports on the growing divide between company expectations and worker desire to remain fully remote….
For the fifth year in a row, Forbes has recognized ACCUR Recruiting Services with outstanding honors in their ranking of Top Executive Search firms and Professional Search firms for the…
Amazon was long rejected by luxury beauty brands who achieved their luster through rarified exclusivity in the retail environment. But the growth of digital retail changed many minds in the…
ACCUR Recruiting Services founder Edouard Thoumyre was just quoted in a Beauty feature in the publication Business of Fashion on the topic of the challenges of hiring top executives in…
The March jobs report was one of the most newsworthy yet, with a total gain of 431,000 nonfarm employment, as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Notably, the…
So many of our dearly held expectations in the recruiting industry have been upended during the COVID-19 pandemic: Remote work and flexible schedules were already a big trend but the…
We’ve all been watching the news of the unfolding war in Ukraine, and our hearts go out to all of those affected by the conflict. Over the past month as…
Inflation was again making headlines last week as Jerome Powell, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, signaled that aggressive measures were called for in handling a surging level of…
One of the biggest questions we get from our clients nowadays relates to the incredible acceleration of salary expectations against rising economic inflation. Workers are facing higher costs from their…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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….
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…
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 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…
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…