According to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Surveys, the US will have a year-over-year increase of about five percent with a record-tying 73 percent of employers keeping staff levels stable. Twelve of the 13 industry sectors surveyed report positive net employment outlooks, meaning employers in most industry sectors plan to add staff during the second quarter.<\/p>\n
The only sector expecting negative growth is Government, however with the passage of the recent healthcare legislation, we believe that may not be an accurate forecast. Moreover, among the 201 local metropolitan statistical areas surveyed, “94 percent indicate a positive or neutral net employment outlook, indicating cautious optimism is becoming more widespread geographically”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I also believe that negative growth prediction in government \u201cmay not be accurate.\u201d\u00a0 In fact, I know it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 Anyway, it is a mildly optimistic outlook for the remainder of this year.\u00a0 The US economy always comes back from a recession so the doom-and-gloom suggestion that we are in the next depression is overstated.\u00a0 However, the anti-business disposition of this current government has definitely delayed the recovery process.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, we are starting to see some activity trickling in again in our business which is a great sign (at least for us).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From the Herman Group newsletter: According to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Surveys, the US will have a year-over-year increase of about five percent with a record-tying 73 percent of employers keeping staff levels stable. Twelve of the 13 industry sectors surveyed report positive net employment outlooks, meaning employers in most industry sectors plan to add staff during the second quarter. The only sector expecting negative growth is Government, however with the passage of the recent healthcare legislation, we believe that may not be an accurate forecast. Moreover, among the 201 local metropolitan statistical areas surveyed, “94 percent indicate a positive or neutral net employment outlook, indicating cautious optimism is… 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":[49,2,5],"tags":[529,1748,50,1294,845],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-hiring","category-trends","tag-employment","tag-hiring","tag-hiring-trend","tag-job-creation","tag-job-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-B6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1623,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/hiring-on-the-rebound\/","url_meta":{"origin":2300,"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 "Economy"","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"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":2300,"position":1},"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 "Hiring"","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":2300,"position":2},"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. 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