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Industry Snapshot: Tech, Creative and Marketing

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Recent headlines about the tech, creative and marketing fields don’t tell the full story about what’s happening in each sector. Organizations are continually looking at ways to implement technology and creative elements to improve their business — and to do that, they need to have talented people with the right skills in place.

With unemployment rates still near historical lows, companies and job seekers need to understand the current hiring landscape and the trends at the forefront.

In this two-part “Industry Snapshot” series, Robert Half Operational President George Denlinger, answers many questions that employers and candidates in the tech, creative and marketing fields have about today’s complex and rapidly changing environment. He offers insight into the demand for skilled talent, the impact of big tech and emerging trends within these fields.

Hear what George has to say about hiring and wage growth trends for tech, creative and marketing in Part 1 of this special series:

[Music] data from job reports and the headlines we've read about tech and creative and marketing sectors really don't tell the full story of what's happening with the hiring and wage growth environment what we're seeing is organizations of all sizes from all Industries are looking to implement technology and improve creative elements to bolster their business opportunities today really exist with kind of our small mid-cap business as Talent has become more available we know that that Talent potentially is able to move from some of the larger companies to the smaller companies and of course as we know unemployment rates are historically low as evidenced by the latest job figures there's really some interesting takeaways right now first of all the professional and business service industry continues to outperform other sectors that's really a good sign for technology creative and marketing professionals many of the top in demand skill sets have unemployment rates well below the national average of 3.4 so we're seeing demand for things like computer and information systems managers software developers web designers copywriters marketing managers graphic designers and systems analysts just to name a few for more information on the industry emerging Technologies and salaries you can visit the Robert Half blog at roberthaft.com

And be sure to check out Part 2, where George provides insight on tech, creative and marketing skills in high demand, hot hiring areas, compensation trends, and more: