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Cornering The Job Market

Author: Pete Newsome

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The job market is changing faster than most people realize. Headlines are noisy, data is often misunderstood, and bad advice spreads quickly. Cornering the Job Market cuts through the confusion with clear, data-backed insights on what is actually happening in hiring, work, careers, and the labor market now, and in the future.


Hosted by Pete Newsome, founder of one of America's top staffing and recruiting firms, this podcast breaks down the labor market from both sides of the table. Job seekers learn how employers are really making decisions. Hiring leaders and executives gain perspective on talent supply, candidate behavior, and where the market is heading next.


Each episode translates complex labor data into plain English and connects the dots between hiring trends, economic signals, AI adoption, wages, layoffs, and workforce strategy. The focus is not hype or fear; with context, clarity, and practical takeaways you can use immediately.


What you will hear on the show

  • Weekly breakdowns of the U.S. job market using trusted data sources
  • What hiring numbers actually mean for real people and real companies
  • How AI is reshaping jobs, hiring, and career paths
  • Why some roles stay in demand even during slowdowns
  • What employers are prioritizing and what candidates often miss
  • Honest conversations about layoffs, wage pressure, job hopping, and stability
  • Tactical advice for job seekers at every career stage
  • Strategic insight for HR leaders, hiring managers, and executives


Who this podcast is for

  • Professionals navigating a competitive or uncertain job market
  • Early and mid-career workers trying to future-proof their careers
  • HR leaders and talent acquisition teams
  • Hiring managers and executives making workforce decisions
  • Anyone who wants clear, credible insight into where work is headed


Why Cornering the Job Market is different

This show is built on real hiring experience, not theory. The insights come from thousands of real job searches, real placements, and real conversations with employers and candidates across industries like IT, finance, healthcare, marketing, HR, and engineering.


The goal is simple. Help you understand the job market well enough to make better decisions, whether you are hiring, job searching, or planning your next move.


New episodes

New episodes drop regularly with timely commentary on breaking labor market news, hiring trends, and workplace shifts. Subscribe so you do not miss an update, especially when the market changes quickly.

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The BLS report from last Friday held a detail Pete and Peter didn't catch the first time around: of the 162,000 jobs added in August, 158,000 went to women, about 97% of the total. Women now hold slightly more than half of all payroll jobs in the US, only the third time that's happened in history. The gains came almost entirely from healthcare, education, and hospitality, all women-dominated fields, while male-dominated sectors like transportation and technology declined. Men's labor force pa...
Pete and Peter share the results of 4 Corner Resources' Q3 2026 Employee Mindset Survey, the third quarterly edition of a study tracking how American workers feel about their jobs, their financial confidence, and AI. The headline finding cuts against a lot of what's in the news: the overall mindset score sits at 67.3 out of 100, and 81% of full-time workers say they're satisfied or extremely satisfied with their current job. Satisfaction isn't showing up in paychecks, though. Real average ho...
The BLS reported 162,000 jobs added in August, about triple the 55,000 forecast, plus a rare upward revision to prior months. Pete and Peter are skeptical, since downward revisions happen roughly 90% of the time. ADP's competing report told a very different story: private employers added just 38,000 jobs, the slowest month since January, and while the BLS reported 16,000 new manufacturing jobs, ADP reported a decline of 17,000. Pete and Peter can't reconcile the two, and neither can point to ...
Bill Gates published a lengthy warning about AI's threat to jobs this week, and Pete and Peter aren't convinced there's anything new in it. He predicts sales, customer support, software engineering, paralegal work, loan assessment, and data analysis are all at risk, and argues government policy needs to keep job creation in line with job losses. Pete and Peter push back hardest on sales, arguing it's one of the most human, relationship-driven jobs that exists, and question whether a call for ...
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that LinkedIn has a dating problem: 22% of users say they've sent or received a message with romantic intent on the platform, and roughly one in four think that's acceptable behavior on a professional site. Pete and Peter also cover the flip side of that same article: one in five people say they check a potential date's LinkedIn profile before meeting them, since it's harder to fake a professional history than a dating profile. From there, a data poi...
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