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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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