i don't know... but i'm pretty sure it's the girl from the Hunger Games
Posted on 12/22/2012 9:23:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Hiring is expected to pick up in the New Year, according to career counselors, but uncertainty surrounding the strength of the economy will likely prevent the hiring season from being as robust as in years past.
Last month, the economy added 146,000 jobs, well beyond the expected 85,000 experts predicted. And a strong holiday shopping season is buoying hopes that December will beat expectations as well.
"Historically, the first quarter of any fiscal year is always the best time to expect hires because of the normal cycle of business," says Robert Meier, president of Job Market Experts, a Florida-based firm that helps match job seekers with openings. "Companies are kind of lying low, but now is the time when they do the talent evaluation. If you can get into the evaluation cycle, you have a good chance of getting hired."
But Philip Noftsinger, business unit president for CBIZ Payroll, Inc., and creator of the CBIZ Small Business Employment Index, doesn't expect hiring in 2013 to match the employment hikes that have occurred during past economic recoveries. He says uncertainty about the impact of politicians on the recovery and the inability of job seekers to properly market themselves will delay many jobs from being filled. The outcome of the fiscal cliff—the tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect at the end of the year—is also directly tied to the state of the job market.
"If we don't reach compromise [on the cliff], I think you're looking at demand-driven hiring," he says, meaning that hiring will depend on consumer demand rather than a company's long-term plan to grow...
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These jobs numbers are pathetic! I wonder how they compare to how many monkeys found jobs? ;-)
Experts, you mean the kind of experts that got us here?
Don’t let anyone fool you. Burger engineering is a great career.
MD, iN, and TN that I know of. Tell the unemployed to try in these states.
i don't know... but i'm pretty sure it's the girl from the Hunger Games
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