{"id":549,"date":"2007-01-05T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/think-sourcing\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T09:50:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T15:50:45","slug":"think-sourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/think-sourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Sourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Foxnews.com &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,241824,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Economy Shrugs Off Weak Housing and Automotive Sectors As Employers Add 167,000 Jobs in December<\/a>. We are encountering extended sourcing cycles right now due in no small part to compensation increases.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Employers stepped up hiring last month, boosting payrolls by a brisk 167,000 and keeping the <strong>unemployment rate steady at a still historically low 4.5 percent<\/strong>. Workers&#8217; wages grew briskly. <\/p>\n<p>The latest snapshot of the nation&#8217;s employment climate, released Friday by the Labor Department, showed that the jobs market ended 2006 on a strong note and provided fresh evidence that the troubled housing and automotive sectors aren&#8217;t dragging down employment across the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have implemented numerous behind-the-scenes updates (technology, resource investment) to better attack the tight market.  I <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/january-is-active\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted earlier this week<\/a> about a statistic from CareerBuilder regarding a 60% bump in job searches they encountered last January.  This is a good time to be sourcing since many people use their vacation time around the holidays and then actively pursue a new opportunity after Jan. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Foxnews.com &#8211; Economy Shrugs Off Weak Housing and Automotive Sectors As Employers Add 167,000 Jobs in December. We are encountering extended sourcing cycles right now due in no small part to compensation increases. Employers stepped up hiring last month, boosting payrolls by a brisk 167,000 and keeping the unemployment rate steady at a still historically low 4.5 percent. Workers&#8217; wages grew briskly. The latest snapshot of the nation&#8217;s employment climate, released Friday by the Labor Department, showed that the jobs market ended 2006 on a strong note and provided fresh evidence that the troubled housing and automotive sectors aren&#8217;t dragging down employment across the country. We have implemented numerous&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/think-sourcing\/\">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":[2,16,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-hiring-salespeople","category-sourcing","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-8R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1272,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/hiring-remains-strong\/","url_meta":{"origin":549,"position":0},"title":"Hiring Remains Strong","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest numbers are out and the experts are...drumroll please...\"surprised.\" From Reuters: Employers added a surprisingly strong 166,000 new non-farm jobs in October, well ahead of forecasts in an early sign that consumer incomes may be better supported than thought heading into the fourth quarter, according to a government report\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":2300,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/2010-hiring-trends\/","url_meta":{"origin":549,"position":1},"title":"2010 Hiring Trends","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"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\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":101,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/job-market-continues-to-grow\/","url_meta":{"origin":549,"position":2},"title":"Job Market Continues to Grow","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest report on corporate hiring - 31% of U.S. Firms Plan to Add Staff - is good news for the economy. However, the labor market is tightening up fast. This market is different from the tech bubble of the late 1990's as the author points out: On the whole,\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":788,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/the-biggest-hiring-challenge\/","url_meta":{"origin":549,"position":3},"title":"The Biggest Hiring Challenge","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"No surprise here: Finding qualified people to work as sales representatives is the biggest hiring challenge for global employers for the second year in a row, an annual talent shortage survey reported Thursday. Sales reps top the list of hard-to-fill jobs in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and in\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":[]},{"id":1623,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/hiring-on-the-rebound\/","url_meta":{"origin":549,"position":4},"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":176,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/sourcing-in-minnesota\/","url_meta":{"origin":549,"position":5},"title":"Sourcing in Minnesota","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 19, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest jobs report for our home state shows that Minnesota added the most jobs in a quarter since 1984. Of course, the journalist strangely felt obligated to follow that impressive fact with multiple paragraphs downplaying the incredible growth. 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