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Happy New Year to Recruiters, Now Prepare for the Downturn

If you work in recruiting and you are not personally worried about an upcoming downturn, realize that many others are thinking about it. For example, recent data from Google now reveals that searches for the word “recession” are at their highest level since the last recession ended (November 2009). And the number of current factors that could cause a downturn from Brexit to tariff wars are too numerous to mention. Technically the U.S. hasn’t had a recession in nearly 10 years; the law of probability alone suggests that one is on the horizon.