Right.
Reality is that stock prices going up means more hiring and lowering stock prices mean layoffs.
Excellent job proving your point that opinions are not fact.
The only thing that results in job growth is opportunity. If there is no projection that equates to increased demand, there is no need to hire more people. Profits and employment are associated, but not linked. A company that lays off 100 shovelers and buys one bulldozer may have higher profits and lower employment.
We're not talking profits and employment.
What we've associated here are stock valuations and employment. Something else we've associated is the timing, that an increase in stock prices is followed by a later increase in employment. It's very possible that the actual cause of both is some combination of new orders + falling inventories + soaring profits that all combines to first increase the stock price and then afterward force companies to hire.
It matters little; bottom line is still "the market is jobs".