{"id":2278,"date":"2010-02-24T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/hiring-time\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T12:39:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:39:16","slug":"hiring-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/hiring-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/02\/22\/news\/economy\/nabe_economic_survey\/index.htm?section=money_news_economy&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_news_economy+%28Economy+News%29\" target=\"_blank\">CNNMoney.com article<\/a>, 2010 hiring will be steady and growing (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We see a healthy expansion under way, although it will take time to reduce economic slack and repair damaged balance sheets,&#8221; said Lynn Reaser, president of the National Association for Business Economics, which conducted the survey of 48 top <strong>economic forecasters<\/strong> in late January and early February.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if those are the same \u201ceconomic forecasters\u201d who are perpetually surprised by the latest economic news?\u00a0 Nonetheless, I don\u2019t mind a little positive outlook during this recession:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The NABE panelists expect that jobs will return slowly this year, forecasting an average monthly increase of 50,000 jobs in the first quarter, followed by average monthly job gains of 103,000 the rest of the year. The unemployment rate, which now stands at 9.7%, is expected to tick down to 9.6% by the fourth quarter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know, the last line (\u2026tick down to 9.6%) is glaring in a macabre sort of way.\u00a0 Still, let\u2019s hope these forecasts are underestimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this CNNMoney.com article, 2010 hiring will be steady and growing (emphasis mine): &#8220;We see a healthy expansion under way, although it will take time to reduce economic slack and repair damaged balance sheets,&#8221; said Lynn Reaser, president of the National Association for Business Economics, which conducted the survey of 48 top economic forecasters in late January and early February. I wonder if those are the same \u201ceconomic forecasters\u201d who are perpetually surprised by the latest economic news?\u00a0 Nonetheless, I don\u2019t mind a little positive outlook during this recession: The NABE panelists expect that jobs will return slowly this year, forecasting an average monthly increase of 50,000 jobs in&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/hiring-time\/\">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":[49,2,5],"tags":[1488,1528,1348,50],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-AK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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