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December jobs report shows stability
Posted by RJ & Makay on January 11, 2013
The fiscal cliff drama from December did not seem to affect employers and hiring. Hiring for the year was not very strong, December could be seen as a summary for the years labor market. 155,000 jobs were added in December. In 2012, 1.84 million jobs were added. The ...
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Europe crisis slows U.S. company hiring goals
Posted by RJ & Makay on July 23, 2012
The National Association for Business Economics polled its members in June. The report shows that only 23 percent plan on adding staff by the end of the year. The same survey done at the end of March showed 39 percent of the firms planned on adding staff. Employers say that ...
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Financial sector job offers spiked in March
Posted by RJ & Makay on April 14, 2011
Confirmed job offers in the financial services sector were up double digits last month — 16% to be exact, shows new research from pre‐employment firm Powerchex. There were 82% more job offers in investment banking last month than in February, Powerchex also reports.
Stockbroker firms and investment management firms saw ...
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Job openings hit two-year peak: DOL
Posted by RJ & Makay on April 14, 2011
Good news from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL): In February, businesses posted the largest number of job openings in more than two years, suggesting hiring is on the rise.
According to the DOL, employers advertised 3.1 million jobs in February, the most since September 2008 (the height ...
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CEO confidence continues to rise
Posted by RJ & Makay on April 13, 2011
Chief executives' confidence in the economy is up again, shows the latest reading on the Conference Board Measure of CEO Confidence. The measure rose to 67 in the first quarter, up from 62 in the fourth quarter of 2010. A reading above 50 indicates a positive outlook, the Conference Board ...
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Company sites, not job boards, work best for jobseekers
Posted by RJ & Makay on April 4, 2011
To maximize your chances of getting a job, it's more effective to apply directly through company websites than social media or job boards. That's what job candidate tracker Jobs2web found when it analyzed 1.3 million applications and 26,000 hires in 2010.
According to the analysis, companies ...
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Financial sector adds 6,000 jobs but unemployment increases to 7.1%
Posted by RJ & Makay on April 1, 2011
While overall unemployment fell to 8.8% in March, the job situation in the financial sector had mixed results. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data for the "financial activities supersector," which consists of the Finance and Insurance sector and the Real Estate, Rental, and Leasing sector, show that unemployment in ...
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Private sector added jobs in March
Posted by RJ & Makay on March 30, 2011
March was a solid month for the jobs market, with private U.S. employers adding 201,000 jobs, reports ADP Employer Services. The ADP report, created jointly with Macroeconomic Advisers LLC, is in line with what economists expect to hear Friday from the government in its more comprehensive public and ...
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Employers ramping up perks, but not pay
Posted by RJ & Makay on March 23, 2011
Although the economy hasn't improved enough yet for employers to hike pay, they are at least offering employees more perks, suggests a new survey by Robert Half International subsidiary Accountemps.
Upon querying 1,400 chief financial officers (CFOs) from a random sample of U.S. companies with 20 or ...
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New jobless claims down yet again
Posted by RJ & Makay on March 18, 2011
Here's the sort of good news about the job market we've heard a lot over past couple months. Last week, new applications for state unemployment benefits fell by 16,000 to 385,000. The decline beat the predictions of economists, who thought initial jobless claims would drop to ...
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