A new hiring crisis: How AI barriers, punishing applications and widening career gaps are reshaping the US job market in 2025
The 2025 labour market was supposed to herald a new era of seamless, data-driven hiring. Instead, it has produced one of the harshest job-search environments American workers have faced in years. A collision of forces, AI-driven screening pipelines, application systems bloated with friction, and a nationwide rise in lengthy career breaks has reshaped the US…