After being cautious due to the 2024 US Presidential election and general market uncertainty, businesses are now feeling more confident about hiring.

For example, startups and scale ups are still raising capital and hiring aggressively.

The ‘return to work’ debate remains and has impacted individuals and enterprises. Given recent directives from the Trump Administration, this will ultimately represent an opportunity to both clients offering flexibility and candidates prepared to be on-site. Overall, candidates willing to work in-office will be in high demand by organizations across all sectors that require a physical presence.

Immigration policies from the Trump Administration, as well as other economic policies, may also affect the market. At present, the impact is unknown but subject to evolve over time.

AI will impact some areas more than others yet that is still quite uncertain.

Conversely, investment in AI, greater automation and digitization will create opportunity.