--- title: The AGS Blog | Ron Hetrick description: Ron Hetrick’s experience includes 10 years of economic consulting experience and over 20 years of working in the analysis and presentation of information around US employment market activity. In his role as director of market analytics at AGS, Ron worked with clients across a wide range of industry verticals providing employment market analysis, site selection, workforce planning and forecasting guidance. Ron's team was primarily focused on delivering critical information to key decision makers in both the public and private sector. Prior to working for Allegis Group, Ron spent nearly eight years as an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington DC. Ron has been quoted on NBC, CNN, USA Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other news agencies. Ron has published articles on workforce trends for the Monthly Labor Review and various industry trade magazines and continues to write white papers on rate card development and philosophies and trends in contingent staffing. 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