Unemployment hit a 50-year low in September.
TOP 3 Stats From The September Jobs Report
- Unemployment dropped to 3.5%
- Wage growth was negligible and is up only 2.9% for the year
- Health care led in job creation while retail lost jobs again
Tip and TOP 3 courtesy of CNBC
People who stay in their jobs beyond five to seven years are fifty percent more likely to stay in that same job another five to seven years.
TOP 3 Questions To Consider If You Have Not Explored The Job Market In Over Five Years
- How well will you compete against peers for jobs?
- How strong is your ability to articulate your value proposition?
- How do employers monetarily value your skills and experiences over the last five years?
TRU’s Relativity Self-Assessment saves our clients up to one hour of interview time per applicant!
TOP 3 Facts About TRU’s Relativity Self-Assessment
- The assessment was developed in collaboration with Relativity and is regularly updated to reflect the most recent standards for the tool.
- It allows for rapid review of an individual’s confidence in their Relativity technical skills for our clients.
- Presenting the assessment along with the resume upon initial submission is becoming a commonplace request, if not an expectation, with a large percentage of the ESI hiring market.
For the fourth straight year, data scientists rank as the number one job in America.
TOP 3 Reasons Data Scientist Is This Year’s Top Job
- Earning potential (median annual base salary of $108,000)
- Overall job satisfaction
- Number of job openings
Unemployment remained low and steady at 3.7% in August.
TOP 3 Takeaways From The August Jobs Report
- The 130,000 jobs added were fewer than forecast.
- Average hourly earnings increased by 0.4% in August and 3.2% over the year, better than expected.
- Labor force participation also increased, rising to 63.2% and tying its highest level since August 2013.
In part one of a two-part series for Law Journal Newsletters' Cybersecurity Law & Strategy, TRU CEO and founder Jared Coseglia explores how, in just over a year since GDPR Day, privacy by design has made privacy as a profession one of the fastest growing and hottest verticals in and outside of the legal job market. In part two, Coseglia outlines what is happening within service providers, consultancies, and vendors, touches briefly on government agencies, and predicts the near-future state of the U.S. privacy job market.
In a recent article for JDSupra, writer Jim Gill asks how paralegals can hone their e-discovery skills. One of his answers looks to TRU CEO Jared Coseglia for industry wisdom—find it in “5 Ways Paralegals Can Quickly Sharpen their eDiscovery Skills!”
Jared Coseglia quoted in JDSupra
“The plug-and-play technical accountability of an e-discovery professional is largely measured by the software certification status that individual achieves and maintains.”
TOP 3 e-Discovery Tasks A Paralegal Is Most Often Asked To Do
- Creating, running, and maintaining searches and search templates
- Spotting/resolving any issues with data loads, such as corrupted files or missing metadata
- Acting as Case Manager by organizing a database for review
Tip of the Week and TOP 3 courtesy of “5 Ways Paralegals Can Quickly Sharpen their eDiscovery Skills,” authored by Jim Gill for JDSupra
Fewer than five percent of net new ESI jobs are in-house corporate positions.
TOP 3 Things To Know About In-House Corporate Legal Tech Hiring
- Privacy and security jobs are abundant at major corporations right now.
- Corporate ESI jobs are largely outsourced to vendors and many that are not are contract positions for niche skills sets or overflow coverage.
- Corporate ESI jobs value collections, legal hold, and ECA skills more than traditionally-demanded processing, hosting, and production skills.