Raghav Singh

Raghav Singh is the co-founder and chief product officer at eVolv, a Bay Area startup building products to support employee engagement and increase productivity. He has held leadership positions at several major technology vendors including Salesforce, Oracle, Korn Ferry Digital, and IBM. Raghav's career has included work as a consultant on enterprise HR systems and as a recruiting and HRIT leader at several Fortune 500 companies. Opinions expressed here are his own.

Labor Market: Deceptions and Explanations Behind the Unemployment Rate

Raghav SinghNovember 17, 2020

The unemployment rate has dropped to 6.9% from 7.9% in October as the economy added 906,000 jobs. While that is encouraging news, the unemployment rate is … Read more

Labor Market: All the Lonely People

Raghav SinghOctober 26, 2020

I ain’t lookin’ for prayers or pity. I ain’t comin’ ’round searchin’ for a crutch. I just want someone to talk to. And … Read more

Labor Market: Where Is Everybody? (The Shrinking Labor Force)

Raghav SinghSeptember 24, 2020

The labor market is creating some odd statistics. There are over 13 million people unemployed because of the pandemic, and the unemployment rate stands at … Read more

Labor Market: Reverse Migration Will Pose Recruiting Challenges

Raghav SinghAugust 19, 2020

In time, we may look at the years before 2020 as B.C. (Before Covid) and the period after as A.D. (After Devastation). One hallmark of the A.D. years will … Read more

Labor Market: Rebounding Out of the Darkness

Raghav SinghJuly 21, 2020

The economy is improving. Don’t believe me. Believe the numbers:: 4.8 million jobs added in June as the unemployment rate declined to 11.1% from 13.3% in … Read more

Labor Market: Women and Minorities Hit Hardest By COVID-19 Unemployment

Raghav SinghJune 16, 2020

Editor’s note: You are reading the first article by Raghav Singh as ERE’s new labor market columnist (though this is not his first contribution … Read more

Rocky Road: The Labor Market Will Be in Crisis for a Long Time

Raghav SinghMay 27, 2020

In September 1945 the U.S. economy lost almost 2 million jobs as the military demobilized after the end of WWII. This April, the economy lost over ten … Read more

COVID-19 Will Create Demand for (and Shortage of) Manufacturing Jobs

Raghav SinghMarch 26, 2020

In just a few weeks, the coronavirus has come to dominate the news, crash the stock market, and bring us to the verge of a recession. The pullback in … Read more

Google Hire, We Hardly Knew Ye

Raghav SinghSeptember 11, 2019

Google recently announced that it will shut down its ATS, Google Hire, in a year. The decision comes 17 months after the ATS was launched. Hire will join a … Read more

Recruiting for Apollo

Raghav SinghJuly 19, 2019

Getting to the moon, 50 years ago as of July 20, required an army of scientists, engineers, and technicians, recruited to work on developing technology and … Read more