WASHINGTON (AP) — Laid off by the music streaming service Spotify last year, Joovay Arias figured he’d land another job as a software engineer fairly soon. His previous job search, in 2019, had been a breeze.
“Back then,” he said, “I had tons of recruiters reaching out to me — to the point where I had to turn them down.”
Arias did find another job recently, but only after an unexpected ordeal.
“I thought it was going to be something like three months,’’ said Arias, 39. “It turned into a year and three months.’’
As Arias and other jobseekers can attest, the American labor market, red-hot for the past few years, has
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