{"id":1988,"date":"2009-03-30T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/job-metrics\/"},"modified":"2009-03-29T07:34:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T12:34:04","slug":"job-metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/job-metrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a CareerBuilder.com email regarding the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">pork<\/span> stimulus plan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the fourth quarter of 2010, over <strong>3,994,000 jobs<\/strong> are estimated to be created and\/or saved due to the American Reinvestment and Recovery act according to Moody&#8217;s <em>Economy.com<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m all for efforts to create jobs in this economy, but I have heard this question asked before and it bears repeating:<\/p>\n<p>What tool measures \u201csaved\u201d jobs?<\/p>\n<p>There isn\u2019t one, it is simply marketing propaganda.\u00a0 Granted, the qualifying word in the sentence is \u201cestimated,\u201d but the real issue is job creation.\u00a0 I think it was Peter Drucker who said if you can\u2019t measure it, you can\u2019t manage it.\u00a0 The focus this year and next should be on job creation instead of an indefinable saved jobs estimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a CareerBuilder.com email regarding the pork stimulus plan: By the fourth quarter of 2010, over 3,994,000 jobs are estimated to be created and\/or saved due to the American Reinvestment and Recovery act according to Moody&#8217;s Economy.com. I\u2019m all for efforts to create jobs in this economy, but I have heard this question asked before and it bears repeating: What tool measures \u201csaved\u201d jobs? There isn\u2019t one, it is simply marketing propaganda.\u00a0 Granted, the qualifying word in the sentence is \u201cestimated,\u201d but the real issue is job creation.\u00a0 I think it was Peter Drucker who said if you can\u2019t measure it, you can\u2019t manage it.\u00a0 The focus this year and&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/job-metrics\/\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,2],"tags":[37,1294,1158,1292,1295,248,1293],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-w4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988"}],"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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->