Recruitment Trends And The Changing Demographics Of The Workforce

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Recruitment Trends and the Changing Demographics of the Workforce
Workforce demographics are constantly changing. This is going to have major impacts on recruitment trends in the coming years. There are many reasons for the rise and fall of labor and workforce in the United States since 1950. From men and women, age of workers, increase in education, immigration, and marital status; all of these different things have contributed to these changes throughout the years and over decades. There have been steady increases throughout the last 50 years but we will see a tapering off of this growth due to many factors over the next 50 years.
There were rises and falls in birth rates starting in the late 1920’s. “The birth rates were low in the late 20’s and early 30’s, then became very high in the 1940’s through the early 1960’s. The birth rate growth was only then modest in the late 1970’s through the early 1990’s” (Lerman & Schmidt, n.d.). It was not uncommon for large families in the earlier years from the 1940’s through to the 1960’s. The increase of children could have been cau...

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