{"id":1176,"date":"2007-09-11T08:53:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T13:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/hiring-outlook-still-strong\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T13:56:11","slug":"hiring-outlook-still-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/hiring-outlook-still-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring Outlook Still Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hiring outlook for the remainder of the year is being bandied about by the media, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cgi-bin\/stories.pl?ACCT=104&amp;STORY=\/www\/story\/09-11-2007\/0004660149&amp;EDATE=\">the latest Manpower survey<\/a> paints a fairly clear picture of a strong market:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of the 14,000 U.S. employers surveyed, 27% expect to increase their workforces during the fourth quarter of 2007, while 9% expect to trim their payrolls. <strong>Fifty-eight percent expect no change in the hiring pace<\/strong>, and 6% are undecided about their hiring plans.<\/p>\n<p>The seasonally adjusted survey results show that in the majority of industry sectors the hiring pace is expected to remain steady during the final months of 2007. Employers in Construction, Durable and Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing, Wholesale\/Retail Trade, Finance\/Insurance\/Real Estate, Education and Services foresee a hiring climate that is relatively unchanged from the third quarter forecast. Mining and Transportation\/Public Utilities employers anticipate a slight downturn in hiring pace, while employers in the Public Administration sector foresee improved job prospects compared to the previous quarter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice how 58% foresee &#8220;no change&#8221; in their hiring pace in Q4.  That doesn&#8217;t mean they are slowing down, just sticking to their plan.  No matter how the mainstream media attempts to frame the current economy, we are seeing an active sales hiring market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hiring outlook for the remainder of the year is being bandied about by the media, but the latest Manpower survey paints a fairly clear picture of a strong market: Of the 14,000 U.S. employers surveyed, 27% expect to increase their workforces during the fourth quarter of 2007, while 9% expect to trim their payrolls. Fifty-eight percent expect no change in the hiring pace, and 6% are undecided about their hiring plans. The seasonally adjusted survey results show that in the majority of industry sectors the hiring pace is expected to remain steady during the final months of 2007. Employers in Construction, Durable and Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing, Wholesale\/Retail Trade, Finance\/Insurance\/Real&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/hiring-outlook-still-strong\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-hiring-salespeople","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-iY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1623,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/hiring-on-the-rebound\/","url_meta":{"origin":1176,"position":0},"title":"Hiring On The Rebound","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The hiring outlook from the Manpower survey looks far better than a year ago which is a good sign.\u00a0 Although there is weakness in areas, the hiring trend is still positive: \u201cWhile overall softness continues in the third quarter, employers are generally not reacting with large-scale payroll reductions,\u201d said Jeffrey\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1940,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/find-the-15\/","url_meta":{"origin":1176,"position":1},"title":"Find The 15%","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"CNNMoney.com provides this article regarding 2009 hiring.\u00a0 As you may expect, hiring is down and it appears more cuts are coming soon: Of the 31,800 employers surveyed, only 15% anticipate hiring more employees during the second quarter, down from 16% in the first quarter and 26% in the same period\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":497,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/twin-cities-hiring-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":1176,"position":2},"title":"Twin Cities&#8217; Hiring Trend","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I never put much stock in these types of surveys, but the local Pioneer Press reports on the recent Manpower survey: Twin Cities employers expect to hire at a sluggish pace during the first quarter of 2007, a Manpower employment survey found. Of the companies interviewed about their hiring plans,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":116,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/q3-hiring-outlook\/","url_meta":{"origin":1176,"position":3},"title":"Q3 Hiring Outlook","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 17, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The upcoming quarter looks to maintain the strong growth in hiring that has been occurring for the past 2 years. Some interesting statistics from the Manpower survey: Construction, 24%, down from 28% in the second quarter Durable-goods manufacturers, 23%, flat from 22% in the second quarter Finance, insurance and real\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1510,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/q2-hiring-to-remain-consistent\/","url_meta":{"origin":1176,"position":4},"title":"Q2 Hiring To Remain Consistent","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"That title probably got your attention.\u00a0 The economy is completely dynamic so things can change, but the quarterly CareerBuilder.com\/Harris Interactive survey came back with some surprising results (my editing). \"The job loss reported in the first quarter signified a gradual deceleration in recruitment in the U.S. as the nation's economy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2173,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/11\/when-will-it-end\/","url_meta":{"origin":1176,"position":5},"title":"When Will It End?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Great Recession roars on during this holiday season.\u00a0 Our company is focused on sales hiring, both assessing candidates for our customers and running full recruiting processes.\u00a0 The hiring outlook is of great importance to us and a topic I try to track closely. That being said, this abcnews.com article\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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