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Imagine a game of musical chairs. Except there are 12 chairs and 100 people.

That’s what the job market is like right now, says Mandi Woodruff-Santos, a career coach and host of the “Brown Ambition" podcast.

“There’s not a lot of meat on the bone,” she says.

That’s why right now, many people who do have jobs are holding on to them for dear life, a concept that management consulting firm Korn Ferry called “job hugging” last month.

So many people are talking and writing about the term that “job hugging” is trending on Google.

It resona

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