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Top Frontline Industries by Demand and Wage Growth: Q1 2025 Report

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Resume Now and Talroo partner to reveal which industries are most in need of essential workers—and where pay is rising fastest

GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico, April 14, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — In Q1 2025, trucking wages surged 16%, and job postings for frontline roles outpaced available candidates across nearly every major sector in the U.S. To provide a comprehensive analysis of the frontline labor market, Resume Now®, a simple and effective resume and cover letter building service, and Talroo, a leading provider of AI-driven job advertising for attracting frontline and skilled trades professionals, have partnered to deliver the Top Frontline Industries by Demand and Wage Growth: Q1 2025 Report, based on data between January 1, 2025 – March 31, 2025.

“Despite continued uncertainty across sectors and broader economic concerns, the need for skilled frontline workers remains strong—and in many industries, it’s growing,” said Thad Price, CEO of Talroo.

Frontline workers are the backbone of the economy, and these essential roles are seeing both rising wages and hiring challenges. The report identifies the industries experiencing the biggest hiring gaps and the highest wage growth— providing valuable insight for both job seekers and employers navigating the current labor market.

The 10 Frontline Industries with the Biggest Talent Gaps
These industries saw the largest mismatch between job postings (demand) and candidate supply (resumes) in Q1 2025. The top ten industries with the biggest talent gaps, in order from highest to lowest:

Trucking Allied healthcare CaregivingCustomer service Manufacturing Retail Administrative Sales Food services Warehousing

What the Data Tells Us About Frontline Hiring Demand
As measured by resumes per job post and comparing year over year, additional insight about the most in-demand frontline industries includes:

1. Trucking – High Demand, Fewer Applicants

The trucking industry continues to face a qualified labor shortage, resulting in fewer applicants per job and steady demand for new drivers.Job seekers with a CDL or logistics experience can find strong opportunities with competitive wages, although policy and economic changes in Q2 2025 may result in shifts.

2. Allied Healthcare & Caregiving – More Jobs, Fewer Candidates

Hospitals, nursing homes, and home healthcare agencies are struggling to fill essential roles.Positions such as medical assistants, caregivers, and patient care technicians are seeing increased demand, creating more opportunities for job seekers with relevant skills or training.

3. Customer Service & Retail – Fewer Job Seekers, More Openings

These industries continue to experience hiring challenges, as the number of active and qualified job seekers has dropped significantly compared to 2024.With fewer qualified applicants, job seekers may find faster interview timelines and better leverage in negotiating flexibility or wages—especially in urban markets.

4. Manufacturing & Warehousing – Still Hiring, But Improving Balance

While these sectors remain in high demand, applicant availability has improved slightly compared to other industries.Despite being a particularly tumultuous policy time for this industry, job seekers with experience in logistics, production, or warehouse operations can still find ample opportunities.

5. Sales & Food Services – Shifting Landscapes

Interest in sales and food service roles has declined, creating hiring difficulties for employers, although these trends will vary state-by-state.Job seekers considering these fields may have greater leverage in negotiating pay and schedules due to labor shortages or due to state regulations such as California’s recent regulations of food service wages.

6. Administrative Roles – A Stable Job Market

The admin sector maintains a steady balance of jobs and applicants.Data entry, scheduling, and support staff roles remain reliable.

“Despite continued uncertainty across sectors and broader economic concerns, the need for skilled frontline workers remains strong—and in many industries, it’s growing,” said Thad Price, CEO of Talroo. “From trucking to healthcare, employers are still struggling to fill essential roles that keep our communities running. This data provides a clear call to action: to invest in smarter recruiting strategies, support workforce development, and help more people connect with meaningful, high-demand jobs.”

Where Wages Are Rising Fastest for Frontline Workers
This ranking highlights the year-over-year hourly wage increases these in-demand industries experienced. Six of the top ten frontline industries saw above-average wage increases in Q1 2025. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national average total compensation increase in 2024 was 3.8%.

Ordered from highest to lowest, these are the top 10 most in-demand frontline industries by wage growth:

1. Trucking

Q1 Wage Growth: 16%2025 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $25.492024 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $22.05

2. Warehousing

Q1 Wage Growth: 15%2025 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $19.782024 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $17.23

3. Administrative

Q1 Wage Growth: 10%2025 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $22.132024 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $20.20

4. Customer Service

Q1 Wage Growth: 10%2025 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $19.152024 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $17.42

5. Caregiving

Q1 Wage Growth: 8%2025 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $16.822024 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $15.56

6. Retail

Q1 Wage Growth: 7%2025 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $17.442024 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $16.27

7. Allied Healthcare

Q1 Wage Growth: 3%2025 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $33.802024 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $32.78

8. Sales

Q1 Wage Growth: 3%2025 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $16.952024 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $16.50

9. Food Services

Q1 Wage Growth: 3%2025 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $16.132024 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $15.63

10. Manufacturing

Q1 Wage Growth: -1%2025 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $22.752024 Q1 Avg Hourly Wage: $23.06

What’s Driving Wage Increases in 2025

Trucking and Warehouse wages surged in Q1 2025 with double-digit wage spikes (16% and 15% growth), hitting new heights not seen since 2022. This followed a protracted softening of wages dating back to 2023. With these two industries anticipated to be impacted by tariffs and other social policies, it will be interesting to monitor how employers respond in Q2 2025.Although trucking wages are challenging to analyze in aggregate—due to the industry’s use of per-mile, per-diem, and other variable pay models—the wage increases reflected in the Frontline Worker Index align closely with recent industry data. These include the National Transportation Institute’s report of the “strongest year-over-year gains in a year,” the Driver Pay Index rising to 134, and TruckingDive’s observation that pay in the 50-to-55 cent per mile range has become more prevalent for drivers with one to three years of experience.Administrative roles saw a 10% rise, reaching $22.13.Customer Service, Caregiving, and Retail saw similar gains, growing 10%, 8% and 7% respectively.Allied Healthcare remained the highest-paying industry for frontline workers in Q1 2025, with an average hourly wage of $33.80, reflecting a modest 3% annual increase.Sales and Food Services experienced modest growth of 3%, reaching $16.95 and $16.13, respectively.Manufacturing was the only industry to see a (very) slight decline (-1%) in average frontline worker wages compared to Q1 2024, experiencing a turbulent start to 2025. It continues to grapple with the ripple effects of global tariffs and evolving social policies. Whether these measures will ultimately revitalize domestic manufacturing—and lift wages in the coming quarters—remains uncertain.

“With so many frontline industries experiencing labor shortages and rising wages, now is the perfect time for job seekers to position themselves for success,” said Keith Spencer, career expert at Resume Now. “To stand out, workers should focus on crafting resumes that emphasize their most valuable skills. Truck drivers, for example, should highlight certifications like a CDL endorsement or experience with logistics software. Warehouse workers can showcase OSHA safety training and inventory management expertise. By tailoring resumes with industry-specific keywords and demonstrating problem-solving abilities, frontline workers can maximize their job opportunities and take advantage of the current hiring trends.”

Methodology:
The rankings are based on Talroo’s Frontline Worker Index, which tracks job posting demand, resume supply, wage trends, scheduling shifts, and the broader economic forces shaping the frontline labor market. Powered by Talroo’s first-party data, the index processes 26 million job posts monthly, capturing 187 million data points across industries and regions.

Explore the full Q1 2025 Frontline Worker Index at https://www.resume-now.com/job-resources/careers/frontline-index-report or https://www.talroo.com/talroo-frontline-worker-index/ or contact Joseph Santaella at joseph.santaella@bold.com.

About Resume Now
Since 2005, Resume Now has offered job seekers a fast and easy way to create a beautifully designed, expert-backed resume. With pre-written, industry-specific phrases and recruiter-approved templates, the award-winning builder enables users to create a polished and professional resume in minutes. Resume Now has been featured in major outlets such as Fortune, Forbes, and more. Stay connected with Resume Now’s latest updates on Facebook and LinkedIn.

About Talroo
Talroo is a data-driven talent matching platform built to help businesses source and attract frontline and skilled trades workers that traditional job boards overlook. By leveraging real-time applicant tracking system (ATS) data and AI-driven technology, Talroo is reinventing the job board. Powering millions of job searches daily, Talroo optimizes hiring cost and outcomes through its proprietary Apply Intelligence™ technology, apply signals, and behavioral insights.
Recognized for innovation in talent acquisition, Talroo has earned multiple industry awards, including the Lighthouse Research & Advisory HR Tech Award and a Brandon Hall Group Gold Award for Excellence. Talroo has also been named a Leader in Recruitment Marketing and Easiest to Do Business With by G2 based on customer satisfaction and peer reviews. Learn more at http://www.talroo.com.

About Frontline Worker Index
The Frontline Worker Index (FWI) delivers near real-time insights into labor market dynamics for frontline and essential workers. Powered by Talroo’s first-party data, the index processes 26 million job posts monthly, capturing 187 million data points across industries and regions. Analyzing trends in job supply and demand, wages, work schedules, education and experience requirements, and valued benefits, FWI equips HR professionals and recruiters with the data needed to attract, hire, and retain talent in a competitive market. Learn more at https://www.talroo.com/talroo-frontline-worker-index/.

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How Can Humanity Become Friends with the Ocean?

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BEIJING, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from China.org.cn on China’s efforts in marine ecological governance:

“Look, white dolphins!” Such excited cries can often be heard along the coast of Xiamen, a city in east China’s Fujian Province.

The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, commonly known as the Chinese white dolphin, is considered Class I nationally protected wildlife in China. As apex predators in coastal waters, these dolphins are regarded as a barometer of marine ecosystem health. Back in the 1990s, however, rising shipping activity, coastal reclamation and near‑shore development severely encroached on their habitats.

To minimize disturbances to dolphin habitats, Xiamen established China’s first provincial‑level nature reserve dedicated to Chinese white dolphins in 1997. Since then, the city has continuously refined its coastal governance approaches, restricted activities with significant environmental impacts, and promoted cross‑regional collaboration in conservation. Many other ocean‑friendly initiatives have also been rolled out. These include restoring mangrove wetland ecosystems; implementing an “offshore sanitation” mechanism and organizing public beach‑clean‑up campaigns to regularly remove floating marine debris; and releasing nearly 8 billion aquatic animals across 18 species through stock enhancement programs. As a result, populations of several fish species, such as the wild large yellow croaker and yellowfin seabream, have returned to Xiamen Bay.

Recently, “AI bodyguards” have joined the conservation effort. High‑definition cameras, drones and intelligent recognition systems track dolphin activity round‑the‑clock. Automatic alerts are issued whenever vessels approach the dolphins in violation of regulations. Researchers have also created individual digital profiles for each dolphin, identifying them by their dorsal‑fin shapes and body spot patterns, while recording their movement trajectories.

Xiamen is a microcosm of China’s efforts in marine ecological governance — forging ahead boldly yet never walking alone.

Over the decades, China has taken a series of concrete steps: from founding its first marine nature reserve in 1963, to proposing the goal of “building a strong maritime nation,” and publishing the white paper “Marine Eco‑Environmental Protection in China”; from drawing marine ecological protection red lines, to actively engaging with the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and signing major international agreements on marine conservation, including the UN Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (UN BBNJ).

For decades, China has been answering a vital question through concrete action: how can humanity coexist harmoniously with the ocean and create mutual benefits?

The answer is becoming increasingly clearer. Today, China’s extensive coastline features clean waters and pristine beaches, with fish swimming freely and seabirds soaring overhead. Not long ago, China’s Blue Bay Restoration Initiative was named a UN World Restoration Flagship. Now, the 21st Xiamen World Ocean Week is officially inaugurated, bringing together experts, scholars and representatives from various countries and international organizations to discuss marine conservation and harmonious coexistence between humanity and the ocean. In marine ecological protection and governance, China is not only a proactive participant and practitioner, but also a contributor to sharing experience and shaping future approaches.

Along Xiamen’s shoreline, the sea breeze blows gently as children run after the waves, echoing the ongoing story of humanity and the ocean.

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OneStream Surpasses 600 EMEA Customers and Triples AI Adoption

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OneStream triples AI customer base and deepens investment across EMEA as Founder and CEO Tom Shea presents governed Finance AI framework at Web Summit

LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — OneStream, the AI operating system for modern Finance that unifies core financial and operational processes, embedding the governance, context, and control required to make AI work for Finance, today announced it has surpassed 600 customers in EMEA and more than tripled its Finance AI customers in the region since the end of 2025. The news comes as Founder and CEO Tom Shea takes the stage at Europe’s biggest tech event, Web Summit 2026, to detail a framework for auditable, contextualized AI for Finance.

“CFOs across Europe are realizing the real advantage of AI isn’t the smartest model – it’s AI operating within a strict framework of financial governance,” said Tom Shea, Founder and CEO at OneStream. “AI is the reasoning engine, but enterprise software must be the trust engine. Our acceleration in EMEA proves leaders want a financial control tower that delivers answers they can act on without operational risk. We will continue investing heavily in the local teams and partners helping them build this secure foundation.”

Accelerating EMEA Momentum
Over the past 12 months, OneStream helped more than 100 new EMEA customers modernize their tech stack and passed 600 customers in the region, with customers in more than 35 markets. Customers span industries including manufacturing, retail, banking and financial services, pharmaceuticals, and oil and gas. Notable EMEA customers include Grupo ACS, Delivery Hero, and Swatch.

Customers across the region are using OneStream to modernize core Finance processes, replacing fragmented legacy systems with a unified platform for financial close, consolidation, reporting, and planning. This unified foundation helps teams keep pace with complex regulatory requirements across EMEA, while providing the governed data necessary to leverage AI for accelerated insights and real business value.

OneStream’s Finance AI adoption is growing alongside its broader platform growth. The number of EMEA customers using OneStream’s Finance AI has more than tripled since the end of 2025.

To support this sustained regional acceleration, OneStream continues to scale its operations and partner ecosystem, building on its established regional presence across London, Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam, and Madrid.

“Finance leaders across EMEA are modernizing their core Finance platforms to keep pace with complex regulation and move faster,” said Matt Rodgers, EVP, EMEA at OneStream. “That modernization is what enables them to take AI from pilots to enterprise-wide deployment, because it gives them a data foundation they can actually trust. Our momentum in the region underscores a fundamental shift toward governed, unified enterprise platforms that deliver real business value.”

Building Trust in AI Agents

Shea will appear in a featured fireside chat titled “Why AI and SaaS Need Each Other” on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 1:25 PM on Stage 7. Moderated by Hope King, Founder of Macro Talk, and featuring Luminance CEO Eleanor Lightbody, the session will examine the evolving role of enterprise software as AI agents take on increasingly complex workflows. Shea will detail how governed data, strict access controls, and transparent audit trails determine how safely organizations can let autonomous agents act on their own.

To learn more about Shea’s session at Web Summit, click here.

About OneStream

OneStream is the AI operating system for modern Finance that unifies core financial close, planning, and operational processes and data, in one intelligent platform, all embedded with the governance, context, and control required to make AI work for Finance.

With over 1,900 customers, including 16% of the Fortune 500, a strong ecosystem of go-to-market, implementation, and development partners and 1,600 employees, we empower the Office of the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy and execution. To learn more, visit onestream.com.

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Insilico Open-Sources 24/7 Personal Longevity Superintelligence to Turn Quantified-Self Data into Predictive Health States and Aging Research

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage generative AI drug discovery company, today announced the open-source release of Longevity Grok, the Personal Longevity Superintelligence (PLSI) and launched the website longevitygrok.si, in collaboration with leading geroscience researcher David Sinclair from Harvard Medical School. Developed for the Grok Bot platform, PLSI is an open-source, multi-agent AI system designed to unify fragmented personal health records, track biological analysis, formulate personalized lifestyle interventions, predict and score post-intervention biomarker changes, as well as drive communal AI-powered geroscience research.

For decades, health management and longevity medicine have been hampered by severe data fragmentation. Laboratory blood panels, continuous glucose monitoring, wearable streams, epigenetic assays, and clinical records sit across disconnected portals, leaving patients unable to follow their biological trajectory and clinicians working from incomplete histories. Modern healthcare turns to LLMs to close that gap, however, without persistent, auditable memory or follow-up on if advice actually improves outcomes, they rarely outperform traditional methods.

Personal Longevity Superintelligence (PLSI) addresses this gap with a continuous, 24/7 automated research loop. It converts fragmented medical data into a standardized longitudinal health trajectory and generates accountable, predictive guidance through a multi-agent architecture. The system continuously forecasts health risks, proposes interventions, and scores outcomes through closed-loop feedback.

Running within Grok Bot’s secure environment, it coordinates a team of up to 30 specialized AI agents, standardizes heterogeneous records with clinical coding systems such as LOINC, RxNorm, and UCUM, and uses always-on routines to monitor longevity science updates, organize incoming data, and keep the personal health state current without constant re-prompting. The same system is framed for three complementary roles:

As a personal longevity assistant, PLSI turns scattered labs, wearables, epigenetic assays, and clinical files into a unified, audit-ready health trajectory on the user’s device. It proposes lifestyle, nutritional, or longevity interventions with an auditable “prediction card” (target biomarker, confidence interval, time horizon, and evidence grade), evaluates each plan through an agent-driven adversarial review. When follow-up results arrive, PLSI scores whether outcomes fall within the predicted interval, confirms direction, and tracks calibration over time, turning each choice into a checkable N-of-1 experiment. Users can also voluntarily allocate unused daily token quota to Idle Research in the background to find new ways to increase their lifespan.

As a physician’s assistant, PLSI supplies structured longitudinal context instead of fragmented PDFs and portal exports. Standardized representations and a coherent biological trajectory help clinicians better organize their workflow Prediction cards and evidence grades aid in decision-making, while closed-loop scoring after follow-up supports auditable discussion of response and adherence. PLSI also features safeguards that overrule AI discretion to keep  formal diagnosis and prescriptions solely with licensed physicians.

As a partner for aging research, PLSI extends individual tracking into communal discovery. Users may opt in to contribute consented, deidentified trajectories to Longevity Mothership via an anonymous relay with an irrevocable kill switch to purge records on demand. Idle Research is a modern take on volunteer computing platforms , such as Folding@home, which let autonomous researcher agents scan literature, formulate hypotheses, and design analyses based on  public databases to accelerate target discovery and other anti-aging discovery activities.

Across all three roles, privacy is the default: a zero-trust architecture keeps raw medical files and identifiable clinical records in the user’s environment , unless the user explicitly opts into communal research. Both the PLSI Client and the Longevity Mothership backends are fully open-source and freely available on GitHub for review and contribution. Both setups feature data controller agents, which scrub the data at egress and intake points to prevent entry re-identification.

PLSI is available to all Grok Bot users and can be installed by instructing your bot with the following one-liner:

Set yourself up using https://github.com/Insilico-org/plsi 

The agentic skills and code are provided as an open-source package which can be inspected and modified by all, according to their needs.

“Longevity Grok turns Grok Bot into an open platform where individuals, physicians, and scientists can use AI to better understand their health, predict the effects of interventions, and find ways to live longer, healthier lives,” said David A. Sinclair, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School. “What makes this exciting is that people can contribute to scientific discovery while improving their own health, helping us understand why we age and how we might slow or even reverse it.”

“Currently, there are zero tools that are clinically proven to give a healthy person an additional year of life if they are already dieting, exercising, sleeping, and getting regular diagnostics,” said Alex Zhavoronkov, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine. “Longevity Grok is a distributed system designed around a personal research space where you can work with your own data to optimize your health, longevity, and peak-span trajectories. As this system diffuses into the community, we expect to achieve longevity superintelligence, enabling a vast network of individuals to conduct autonomous research on their own biology while utilizing shared computation resources to pursue advanced longevity experiments. Aging is the only inescapable constraint on human freedom, and pushing this frontier is about giving people the optionality to remain young, healthy, and productive for as long as possible.”

Longevity has been central to Insilico’s mission since its inception. The company’s path drew industry attention in 2015 at the NVIDIA GTC conference, where Alex Zhavoronkov, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Insilico, challenged the tech world with a provocative question: “Can NVIDIA cure aging?” In 2014, Insilico established the annual Aging Research and Drug Discovery (ARDD) meeting, now widely regarded as a leading academic gathering for geroscience and biogerontology. The 13th ARDD, held at Harvard University in 2026, brought together leading academic investigators, pharmaceutical executives, and clinical pioneers to translate longevity discoveries into actionable medicine.

In 2026, Insilico accelerated the translation of AI-driven longevity research from experimental theory to transformative biological interventions. In April, the company announced the industry’s first longevity board of high-profile scientists, chaired by Andrew Adams, Ph.D., Group Vice President of Molecular Discovery at Eli Lilly and Company, to advance AI-driven aging research for drug discovery. In September, Insilico open-sourced an AI longevity toolkit, including LongevityBench, Longevity-LLMs, and LongevityClaw, with collaborators in a Cell cover study, accelerating research and therapeutic development. That publication follows Insilico’s contemporaneous Nature Biotechnology paper, in which Rentosertib, the company’s most advanced AI-driven pipeline candidate, showed biological age reversal according to Phase IIa clinical data across six independent proteomic aging clocks.

Since 2014, Insilico has published more than 50 research papers on aging and longevity, aging biomarkers, therapeutic targets, and therapeutics implicated in aging, longevity, and disease.

About Insilico Medicine

Insilico Medicine is a pioneering global biotechnology company dedicated to integrating artificial intelligence and automation technologies to accelerate drug discovery, drive innovation in the life sciences, and extend healthy longevity to people on the planet. The company was listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 30, 2025, under the stock code 03696.HK.

By integrating AI and automation technologies and deep in-house drug discovery capabilities, Insilico is delivering innovative drug solutions for unmet needs including fibrosis, oncology, immunology, pain, and obesity and metabolic disorders. Additionally, Insilico extends the reach of Pharma. AI across diverse industries, such as advanced materials, agriculture, nutritional products and veterinary medicine.

For more information, please visit www.insilico.com

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