{"id":78,"date":"2006-06-01T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T22:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-06-01T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T22:09:16","slug":"an-employees-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/an-employees-market\/","title":{"rendered":"An Employee&#8217;s Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The economy is roaring after 5.3% growth in GDP last quarter.  We have recently started tracking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,197817,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">this monster.com index<\/a> and it appears to be quite accurate.  The takeaway stat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The index, which Monster said is a strong predictor of overall U.S. demand for workers, is up 25 percent over the past year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economy is roaring after 5.3% growth in GDP last quarter. We have recently started tracking this monster.com index and it appears to be quite accurate. The takeaway stat: The index, which Monster said is a strong predictor of overall U.S. demand for workers, is up 25 percent over the past year.<\/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":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-1g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":101,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/job-market-continues-to-grow\/","url_meta":{"origin":78,"position":0},"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. 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