Presented by Wright Technical ServicesWritten by Denise D’Angelo Leaders have taken deliberate steps to prepare for an AI-enabled workforce. They have hired differently, redesigned roles for expanded reach and impact, and embedded AI into everyday workflows. Yet performance can plateau, and in many cases, leaders step back at precisely the moment teams need ongoing support.…

Presented by Wright Technical ServicesWritten by Denise D’Angelo Hiring has always involved some guesswork about a candidate’s future performance. What haschanged is when and where decisions are made. Automated screening tools narrow candidatepools before meaningful human interaction occurs. For most organizations, the screeningprocess has become the hiring decision. Strengthening hiring decisions, especially for AI-enabledroles, requires…

Presented by Wright Technical Services Written by Denise D’Angelo  AI enablement is reshaping roles by expanding what individuals can handle across the day-to-day phases of work, creating the conditions for an AI-enabled, future-ready workforce.  For most of our careers, responsibilities were clearly bounded by titles and levels. Program managers coordinated. Analysts analyzed. Engineers built. Anything in…

Presented by Wright Technical ServicesWritten by Denise D’Angelo Organizations are investing heavily in AI and workforce readiness, while the nature of day-todaywork continues to evolve. Beneath the surface, work is quietly reorganizing. Generative and agentic AI capabilities embedded into everyday business & operatingpractices change how analysis, exploration, and decision support occur within existing roles.As these…

By: Michele Zeitz – VP of IT Michele Zeitz – Vice President of IT; Haley Coppes – Market Director; Aidan Jantz – Talent Solutions Manager; and Josh Healan – President of Wright Technical Services – all had the pleasure of attending the WIM Summit at the McCormick Center in Chicago last week. You likely met…

By: Evan Mounts, Engineering Market Director The Wright Team recently had the opportunity to attend The International Manufacturing and Technology Show at McCormick Place in Chicago. Being that many of our clients are in the manufacturing space, and the fact that this show was first held almost 100 years ago in our hometown of Cleveland…

As reported this week by Bloomberg, US Job Openings overall are at their lowest point since 2021. Wright’s most recent Engineering Talent Demand Gauge is almost perfectly aligned with this data and shows we’re now down to 2.47 open jobs for every one engineer looking to change roles. This is the coolest we’re seen the…

The team at Wright had predicted that the Engineering Demand Gauge would change to four to one going into May. We were wrong. As Bloomberg reported here, along with several other news sources, U.S. job openings have recently hit a three year low. This is across all jobs, all professions and all industries. The same…

This week we saw another increase in the Engineering Demand ratio to 3.76 current job openings for every one engineer looking for work. Last week was at 3.51. Our prediction remains that we’ll cross over the four threshold going into May. One interesting observation, the demand for Mechanical Engineers continues to increase more than other…

The demand for talent the week of April 1st remains at 3 to 1 but there’s a ‘but’, a big ‘but’. There are still three open jobs for every one engineer looking to make a move. That said, the gauge is just over 3.5 which is the highest its been since the week of February…