Released, October 2, 2013 Private sector employment increased by 166,000 jobs from August to September, according to the September ADP National Employment Report®, which is produced by ADP®, a leading provider of human capital management solutions, in collaboration with Moody’s Analytics. The report, which is derived from ADP’s actual payroll data, measures the change in total nonfarm private […]
ADP/Moody’s National Employment Report – August to September 2013
People Feel Their Current Job Is Off Course
Survey Indicates People Feel Their Current Job Is Not Meeting Their Career Vision Daily News, October 18 2013 Most people consider their current job “not on course at all” with their career visions, according to a U.S. poll conducted by Monster.com. 56% of respondents consider their current job “not on course at all” with their career […]
ACA HASN’T IMPACTED HIRING PLANS SAY 78% OF FIRMS
Staffing Industry Daily News – October 7, 2013 The Affordable Care Act had no impact on hiring plans, according to 78 percent of small- and mid-sized companies surveyed by PNC Financial Services Group Inc. The biannual survey included telephone interviews with 501 businesses in the U.S. “Our labor market isn’t going to tank because of […]
US – Survey: Executive, Managerial Talent Market Increasingly Candidate-Driven
Daily News, September 24 2013 The hiring of executive and managerial talent is largely candidate-driven, forcing companies to simplify their hiring processes to extend job offers to top talent faster, according to the MRINetwork Recruiter Sentiment Study of 170 MRINetwork recruiters. The twice-a-year recruitment practices survey found that 79% of respondents defined the talent market […]
Survey Finds Gap In Workforce Soft Skills
Daily News, September 30 2013 The U.S. skills gap is much more than a dearth of technical, computer skills, according to the State of the Economy and Employment Survey from Adecco Staffing US. In the survey*, 92% of senior executives in the U.S. acknowledge there is a serious gap in workforce skills and 44% of […]
EMPLOYMENT TRENDS INDEX INDICATES GROWTH THROUGH FALL
September 09 2013 – Daily News The Conference Board employment trends index rose in August to a reading of 113.54, up from July’s upwardly revised reading of 112.80. The August reading is up 4.5 percent from the same month a year ago. “The growth of the employment trends index in recent months suggests that employment […]
REPORT: 24 MILLION INDEPENDENT WORKERS BY 2018
September 10 2013 – Daily News Americans working more than half-time as individual self-employed contributors has reached 17.7 million, up 10 percent from 2011 and 5 percent from 2012, according to MBO Partners Inc.’s recently released third annual State of Independence in America workforce study. The independent workforce is expected to grow to 24 million […]
MANPOWERGROUP SURVEY: US Q4 HIRING TRENDS UP
MANPOWERGROUP SURVEY: US Q4 HIRING TRENDS UP Daily News – September 10, 2013 U.S. employers expect to increase hiring in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the fourth-quarter 2013 Manpower employment outlook survey released today by ManpowerGroup Inc. Among U.S. employers surveyed, 18 percent expect to add to their workforces and 8 percent expect […]
Job Openings and Structural Unemployment
On August 6th, the BLS reported that there were 3,900,000 job openings on the last business day of June, up by 100,000 from May. (The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey results for July 2013 are scheduled to be released on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013). The 3,900,000 reflects published openings comprised of jobs that are advertised either […]
What Hiring Managers look at may be surprising.
Daily News, August 28 2013 Skills and experience may be essential, but employers may also take other factors into account such as a sense of humor, eye for fashion or knowledge of pop culture, according to a survey by CareerBuilder. The survey included 2,076 hiring managers and human resource professionals across industries. They were asked, […]