{"id":298,"date":"2006-09-13T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T19:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=298"},"modified":"2006-09-13T14:14:59","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T19:14:59","slug":"hiring-increases-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/hiring-increases-to-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring Increases to Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerjournal.com\/salaryhiring\/hotissues\/20060913-coombes.html?mod=RSS_Career_Journal&#038;cjrss=frontpage\" target=\"_blank\">No real surprises here<\/a> from the Manpower quarterly survey of 16,000 U.S. companies regarding their hiring plans for the fourth quarter. From the report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Twenty percent<\/strong> of firms surveyed said they will be open to hiring in the upcoming fourth quarter, about flat with the 21% who said they intended to hire in the third quarter this year.For more than two years &#8212; 11 quarters, to be exact &#8212; the portion of firms who said they planned to hire has hovered around 20%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting that it consistently stays at 20%. I&#8217;m no statistician (but I did take it twice in college for . . . nefarious reasons), but that consistency would force me to look at my survey in more detail. Maybe the questions should be reworded?<\/p>\n<p>Interesting piece of information in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some key technical skills still are in shortage, including welders, truck drivers, health-care specialists, IT [workers], engineers. They are in high demand, whereas the lower-skilled non-specialists are in lower demand and there&#8217;s ample supply,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=292\" target=\"_blank\">The welder position again<\/a> (I put that in here for Amitai). I&#8217;ve been working on an IT position for the past 9 months &#8211; not kidding. The numbers are simply not there and finding them has been tedious. The position finally filled this week, but it was a struggle to find the right person with the right skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No real surprises here from the Manpower quarterly survey of 16,000 U.S. companies regarding their hiring plans for the fourth quarter. From the report: Twenty percent of firms surveyed said they will be open to hiring in the upcoming fourth quarter, about flat with the 21% who said they intended to hire in the third quarter this year.For more than two years &#8212; 11 quarters, to be exact &#8212; the portion of firms who said they planned to hire has hovered around 20%. Interesting that it consistently stays at 20%. I&#8217;m no statistician (but I did take it twice in college for . . . nefarious reasons), but that consistency&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/hiring-increases-to-continue\/\">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-298","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-4O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":568,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/median-hiring-time-shortens-slightly\/","url_meta":{"origin":298,"position":0},"title":"Median Hiring Time Shortens Slightly","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"3.7 months. According to this CNNMoney.com article, that was the median time it took to hire in the fourth quarter. As long as that may seem, it trended down from third quarter which is a good sign. U.S. workers needed less time to land a new job in the fourth\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":1467,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/a-soft-hiring-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":298,"position":1},"title":"A Soft Hiring Trend","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Manpower'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. 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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":2278,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/hiring-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":298,"position":5},"title":"Hiring Time","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"According to this CNNMoney.com article, 2010 hiring will be steady and growing (emphasis mine): \"We see a healthy expansion under way, although it will take time to reduce economic slack and repair damaged balance sheets,\" said Lynn Reaser, president of the National Association for Business Economics, which conducted the survey\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\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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