As layoffs, slow hiring, and economic uncertainty hit Black women hard, scammers are using fake recruiters, deepfakes, and polished job posts to steal personal information.
The job hunt has always been a stress-inducing process.
It’s a never-ending cycle of apply, get rejected, apply again, complete a task, get an interview, then get ghosted. Rinse and repeat.
The job market right now is probably the most daunting we’ve seen in decades. Not only were nearly 600,000 Black women pushed out of the workforce this past year alone, we’re also faced with an economy (and a president) that are doing very little to support job growth while the AI boom continues and mass layoffs keep hitting our communities in ways that don’t make national headlines nearly enough.
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