2025 Job Market Predictions: Job Search Struggles, Raises, Remote Work [Video]

Getting a job was tough for many Americans in 2024. If a career shift is your New Year’s resolution for 2025, you might still find it challenging.

Job growth has slowed, unemployment has been historically low but rising, and unemployed Americans are staying jobless for longer.

“Heading into 2025, it is going to be a little harder for job seekers across the board,” Cory Stahle, an economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab, said in December. “We’ve seen that just about every category on Indeed has come down year over year in terms of the number of job postings. So that suggests that employer demand has cooled.”

Nela Richardson, ADP’s chief economist, described the labor market in 2024 as unusually stable and quiet. She pointed to steadily low layoffs and a drop in voluntary turnover amid cooler hiring.

“The stasis is rather abnormal, and I think it’s going to make it tough for workers who are looking for new …