Carmine Di Sibio, CEO of EY, said it’s “business as usual” for the company’s hiring.

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• Accounting firm EY is looking to hire around 220,000 people in the year ending July 2023, a top executive said in November.
• But it’s not like there’s a huge influx of talent now because of the widespread tech layoffs. 
• The CEO of EY told Bloomberg on Wednesday it isn’t seeing “a rash of talent” that’s suddenly available.

Tech companies may be laying off staff left, right and center — but it doesn’t mean there’s an abundance of talent readily available in the market, the CEO of accounting giant EY told Bloomberg on Wednesday.

“If you just read the headlines around what’s going on, you might think, there’s all kinds of people who know technology out there,” Carmine Di Sibio told Bloomberg in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

But that doesn’t appear to be the case.

“We’re not struggling to source talent, but it’s not like we’re seeing a rash of talent that’s all of a sudden available,” Di Sibio said, adding that the firm’s hiring is “business as usual.”

EY, which is headquartered in the UK, is looking to hire around 220,000 people globally in the 12 months to July 2023, Trent Henry, EY’s global vice chair for talent had told Bloomberg back in November.

The company — which plans to split its accounting and consulting businesses into two separate companies — employs over 300,000 people globally. The consulting arm is expected to employ as many as 230,000 people, Di Sibio told Bloomberg on Wednesday.

EY’s hiring spree stands in contrast to the large-scale tech layoffs

The accounting firm seems to be one of few employers still hiring on a large scale.

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced it would slash 10,000 jobs, as customers have become more careful about their digital spend. Other major tech companies that have cut staff recently include Amazon, Meta, and Salesforce. 

In just about 18 days into the new year, there have already been 37,526 layoffs at 122 tech companies so far, according to Layoffs.fyi, which is tracking and aggregating the data. That’s already about a quarter of the 154,386 tech workers laid off in the whole of 2022, per the same tracker.

The rash of layoffs — which started last year — came after tech companies hired and expanded aggressively during the pandemic. But they started conducting widespread layoffs in late 2022, as earnings weakened across the board amid fears of an impending recession. This also spilled over into 2023. 

EY did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment sent outside regular business hours.

The old photo used in the deposition where Trump mistook E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples.

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• Trump mistook a woman who is suing him for sexual assault for his ex-wife during a deposition.
• He has repeatedly said he couldn’t have raped E. Jean Carroll because she isn’t his “type.”
• When confronted with the photo during the deposition, Trump said, “That’s Marla, yeah.”

Donald Trump appeared to think a photo of E. Jean Carroll — the columnist who has accused the former president of rape and is suing him for defamation — was a picture of his ex-wife Marla Maples.

Trump mixed up the two women when shown a photograph from 1987 during a deposition last year, a new transcript shows.

Trump’s case of mistaken identity occurred even though he has repeatedly suggested that he couldn’t have assaulted Carroll because she is not his “type.” Trump and Maples were married from 1993 to 1999.

“That’s Marla, yeah. That’s my wife,” Trump said when shown a photo of Carroll by her lawyer Roberta Kaplan during an October 2022 deposition at Mar-a-Lago, according to newly-unsealed excerpts of the conversation obtained by Insider. 

Insider contacted Carroll’s lawyers, and her team sent over the photo used in the deposition. 

When Trump made the mix-up, his lawyer, Alina Habba, appeared to correct him and point out that the woman was Carroll. “Oh, I see,” Trump said in response to Habba’s correction.

Trump in his deposition repeatedly doubled down on his stance that he would never have found Carroll attractive.

“When I say she’s not my type, I say she is not a woman I would ever be attracted to,” Trump said in the deposition. “I just — it’s not even meant to be an insult. Now, some people would be attracted to her perhaps.· I would never be attracted to her.”

Carroll is currently suing Trump for defamation and, in a separate case, sexual assault, stemming from an alleged incident in a dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s, in which she accused the former president of raping her. 

Attorneys for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment.