Todd Raphael / career expert

Jennifer Hill asks leading career expert, Todd Raphael, about what trends we can expect to see in the job market in 2017? Todd explained that employers are focusing on hiring fresh young talent, but may be moving away from necessitating a college degree to be hired. Todd also shared that many hiring managers are employing new behavioral questions in interviews and are in some cases, using “chat bots” and other technology to help screen potential candidates.

Todd Raphael is one of the best-known and most outspoken experts and commentators on employment and recruiting, appearing in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Time, NPR, New York Post, and elsewhere. At ERE Media (ere.net), he is in touch with recruiting leaders worldwide on a daily basis, and manages the ERE conferences and website. Before ERE, he built up the Workforce.com publication and worked with the business community at a lobbying group called the National Restaurant Association. He majored in politics at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was a four-time NCAA letterman in track and a Summa Cum Laude graduate.