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Help Wanted

How to Find and Keep Talent in a Forever-Tight Labor Market

Jerry Rubin Steven L. Dawson

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MIT Press
04 August 2026
How employers can compete in a challenging labour market by hiring differently, redesigning job quality, and rethinking their government relations strategies.

From two leaders in business and workforce development with a proven track record in innovative workforce strategies.

Over the past ten years, the U.S. labor market has been buffeted, with demand shifting dramatically. At the same time, demographic trends mean that U.S. labor supply will steadily tighten into the coming decade: Relatively fewer native-born workers are entering the workforce; a greater percentage are choosing not to work; and an aging baby boom generation is exiting the workforce. What s worse, this systemic tightening of the U.S. labor market has been exacerbated by the Trump administration s decision to dramatically constrain immigration, the primary source of recent labor market growth.

Welcome to the

forever-tight

labor market. In Help Wanted, Jerry Rubin and Steven Dawson combine their 80 years of experience in management and workforce development to offer employers an

employee-focused competitive strategy.

This strategy includes a wide range of practical, well-researched tools and detailed case studies from a breadth of employers that will help readers compete for talent and retain a productive workforce.

Since the underlying cause of the tightening labor supply is structural, employers whether for-profit, nonprofit, or governmental must respond in kind. They too must undertake structural changes in finding, hiring, and retaining workers.

Now equal in importance to an organization s customer-service strategy, an employee-focused strategy is no longer simply a competitive advantage it is fast becoming a competitive necessity.
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9780262054393
ISBN 10:   0262054396
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Jerry Rubin led and founded several highly impactful workforce and community development organizations and initiatives in the nonprofit and public sectors over the past four decades. He has written extensively on workforce and community development issues including monographs and book chapters. He is Senior Advisor at the Harvard Project On The Workforce and a Foundation Fellow at Eastern Bank. Steven L. Dawson worked in the field of business/economic development for 45 years. He helped create and lead a range of for-profit and nonprofit economic development enterprises, and for decades wrote and consulted extensively to organizations on frontline workforce job-quality issues.

Reviews for Help Wanted: How to Find and Keep Talent in a Forever-Tight Labor Market

ENDORSEMENTS “For too long business leaders have been sitting in the interview room and waiting for someone else to send in “qualified candidates.” This book invites leaders to come out of the interview room and engage talent with an active strategy for success.” —Peter Strange, Chairman Emeritus, Messer Construction; Former Board Chair, National Fund for Workforce Solutions “A brilliant toolkit for job creators to creatively find talent—the toughest part of our job now—and a must-read book to help bring on new talent and recruit the best in a labor-strained economy where great people are critical for growth.” —Drew Greenblatt, President, Marlin Steel Wire Products LLC “Jerry Rubin and Steven L. Dawson offer so much useful advice on how to attract and retain workers amid a ‘forever-tight labor market,’ make sure you grab a highlighter before cracking open Help Wanted.” —Rick Wartzman, author of Still Broke and The End of Loyalty “This book provides a clear-eyed resource on navigating the ‘forever tight’ labor market. Compelling, relevant, and meticulously researched, it is relatable, credible, and an insightful contribution to the dialogue surrounding the rapidly changing workforce.” —JD Chesloff, President and CEO, Massachusetts Business Roundtable “Most employers treat hiring and retention like the weather: They constantly complain and yet never do anything about it. Help Wanted explains exactly what to do and how to get this right. An intelligent and also practical guide to these essential tasks.” —Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management, University of Pennsylvania; author of Our Least Important Asset


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