The 2025 2025 Job Market Review 📉

The 2025 job market broke a lot of people.

In this year-end review, we take a hard look at what actually happened to job seekers in 2025 and why frustration has turned into full-blown exhaustion. Unemployment crept higher, job postings fell, layoffs accelerated, and entire industries saw hiring slow or collapse altogether.

We break down what’s happening across key sectors including tech, finance, construction, accounting, engineering, healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, HR, and recruiting. We also look at long-term unemployment, the struggles facing new college graduates, the move toward skilled trades, and why more workers are questioning whether the system is working at all

If you’re a job seeker, hiring manager, or anyone trying to understand where the job market is headed next, this breakdown matters.

00:00 - intro
01:29 - unemployment rate
03:12 - Indeed job postings
03:57 - software developer jobs
04:40 - Banking and finance
04:55 - Construction industry
05:38 - Accounting jobs
06:10 - Electrical Engineering jobs
06:47 - Nursing jobs
07:46 - manufacturing jobs
08:20 - hospitality and tourism jobs
08:58 - HR and recruiting jobs
11:08 - Layoffs
12:31 - Long-term unemployment
13:31 - Tech layoffs
14:30 - New college grads
15:56 - moving into trades
18:00 - People are completely over the job market
20:34 - employees are waking up
22:15 - AI is replacing jobs at a concerning rate
24:19 - The AI silver lining
27:01 - Federal job cuts
29:19 - remote jobs
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