{"id":1467,"date":"2008-03-13T07:39:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T12:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/a-soft-hiring-trend\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T21:41:07","slug":"a-soft-hiring-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/a-soft-hiring-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"A Soft Hiring Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manpower&#8217;s quarterly survey is often considered a bellwether of the upcoming labor market.\u00a0 The Wall Street Journal reports on this trend in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120526232489527909.html?mod=CarJMain_topright\">Hiring Plans Soften Across Industries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The title sounds a dire alarm, but there\u00a0 is an interesting quote within the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jonas Prising, president of Manpower North America, characterized employers&#8217; hiring plans for the upcoming quarter as &#8220;softening.&#8221; He noted the decline is less sharp than the steep drops seen at the beginning of the decade. In some quarters of 2000, up to 25% of employers planned to hire, but then employers&#8217; hiring plans declined sharply, and the portion planning to hire hit about 5% by early 2002.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This curve doesn&#8217;t look anything like the curves that we have seen when things have gone into recession,&#8221; Mr. Prising said. &#8220;Some [employers] have decided to stop hiring, but you&#8217;re not seeing a massive shift, you&#8217;re not seeing a huge jump. Some are more cautious and that&#8217;s why you get a softer declining trend and not such a dramatic fall-off.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting, don&#8217;t you think?\u00a0 The economy has certainly slowed down, but the howls of recession seem to be more than premature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manpower&#8217;s quarterly survey is often considered a bellwether of the upcoming labor market.\u00a0 The Wall Street Journal reports on this trend in Hiring Plans Soften Across Industries. The title sounds a dire alarm, but there\u00a0 is an interesting quote within the article: Jonas Prising, president of Manpower North America, characterized employers&#8217; hiring plans for the upcoming quarter as &#8220;softening.&#8221; He noted the decline is less sharp than the steep drops seen at the beginning of the decade. In some quarters of 2000, up to 25% of employers planned to hire, but then employers&#8217; hiring plans declined sharply, and the portion planning to hire hit about 5% by early 2002. &#8220;This&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/a-soft-hiring-trend\/\">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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[2,5],"tags":[50,432,433,434],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-trends","tag-hiring-trend","tag-manpower-survey","tag-q2-hiring","tag-upcoming-hiring"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-nF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1623,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/hiring-on-the-rebound\/","url_meta":{"origin":1467,"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":497,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/twin-cities-hiring-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":1467,"position":1},"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":1355,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/hiring-continues-to-expand-in-2008\/","url_meta":{"origin":1467,"position":2},"title":"Hiring Continues To Expand In 2008","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"No real surprises from this CNNMoney.com article (emphasis mine): Employers are trimming their hiring plans but still expect to add workers in 2008, according to a survey released Wednesday. Online job search site CareerBuilder.com said its survey of 3,016 hiring managers and human resource professionals in the private sector found\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":1176,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/hiring-outlook-still-strong\/","url_meta":{"origin":1467,"position":3},"title":"Hiring Outlook Still Strong","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"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%\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":2486,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/05\/candidates-are-negotiating-pay\/","url_meta":{"origin":1467,"position":4},"title":"Candidates Are Negotiating Pay","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I can attest to the findings referenced in this Manpower survey: Just last week, ManpowerGroup released the results of its sixth-annual Talent Shortage Survey. The survey included almost 40,000 employers across 39 countries and territories. Globally, 34 percent of employers say they are having difficulty filling positions. The three most\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1544,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/top-3-in-demand-positions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1467,"position":5},"title":"Top 3 In-Demand Positions","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"From RecruitingTrends.com (my emphasis): Manpower Inc. releases the results of its third annual talent shortage survey, revealing that 31% of employers globally are finding it increasingly more difficult to fill jobs. The top three candidates most in-demand are skilled manual trades, sales representatives and technicians (technical workers in the areas\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring Salespeople&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring Salespeople","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/hiring-salespeople\/"},"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\/1467","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=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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