Recruiting Trends and Changing Workforce Demographics Workforce demographics are constantly evolving. This will have major impacts on recruiting trends in the years to come. There are many reasons for the increase and decrease of work and the workforce in the United States since 1950. Of men and women, the age of workers, the increase in education level, immigration and civil status; all these different things have contributed to these changes over the years and decades. There have been steady increases over the past 50 years, but we will see a slowdown in this growth due to many factors over the next 50 years. There were rises and falls in birth rates beginning in the late 1920s. “Birth rates were low in the late 1920s and early 1930s, then became very high in the 1920s. 40 until the early 1960s. Growth in the birth rate was only modest in the late 1970s and early 1990s” (Lerman and Schmidt, n.d.). It was not uncommon to have large families in the early years, from the 1940s to the 1960s. The increase in the number of children could have been caused...