CNN: 30 % of hiring managers expect to add positions

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Growth, investment point to good job market
30 percent of hiring managers expect to add positions

By Matt Ferguson
CareerBuilder.com CEO
Friday, April 14, 2006; Posted: 7:59 a.m. EDT (11:59 GMT)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/Careers/04/14/cb.q2.forecast/index.html

While 42 percent of hiring managers expect to recruit 10 employees or less, 14 percent anticipate adding more than 50 employees.

The most popular positions hiring managers say they will be recruiting for are sales, information technology, health care, retail, customer service and accounting/finance.

Demand for professional and technical workers will be strong with one-third of hiring managers targeting this job level. One in 10 hiring managers expect to recruit managers, directors and senior executives while nearly one-in-five will add administrative and clerical staff.

Comparing regions, the Midwest and South are showing the strongest indicators for recruitment plans in Q2. Thirty-four percent of hiring managers in the Midwest and 33 percent in the South expect to add headcount in the next three months. This compares to 30 percent in the West, a dip from the previous quarter. The Northeast continues to trail behind the other regions with 29 percent planning to increase staff levels.

[peekaloo]

1. at lower salaries and fewer benefits?

pardon my cynicism.

Gawd bless the Boo$h tax cuts! They have risen!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. The retail and customer service jobs won't pay much...

I don't know...looking at the list of positions doesn't fill me with a sense of "living wages"...

:patriot:

[displacedtexan]

3. They always say that in an election year.

I've heard that a brazillion times before. And they know
they won't be held accountable for their propaganda.

[bahrbearian]

4. So 70% don't,, thats not good.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. That was my immediate reaction to the "good job market" headline

PLUS the "42 percent of hiring managers expect to recruit 10 employees or less" bit.

Locally, eBay hired 300 new employees around a year, year and a half ago...it made the top story on the evening news because something like three THOUSAND applicants showed up.

For anyone reading this who's never worked in H.R. (I have), let pass on a little insight on how the "10 employees or less" companies will do their hiring.

They'll NETWORK inside the company and offer REFERRAL BONUSES to employees who bring in their unemployed friends.

Chances of ANY of the "10 employees or less" advertising those jobs? Zero.

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[patdem]

7. Where is 'your neck of the woods'? You do not give it in your profile.

:shrug:

[OKNancy]

8. He won't be answering

:hi:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. So true...

:rofl:

"ROCKING!"

:evilgrin:

[patdem]

13. Thanks, his profile didn't tell me where he was from, but it tells me

where he went! I suspected as much!

[converted_democrat]

11. I'm just curious where your neck of the woods is, and just how

"rockin'" are things? 12% unemployment, and massive underemployment aren't "good" by any stretch of the imagination.. I own my own biz, and I'm making it, but I know dozens of people that have degrees that can't find work.. Almost everyone I know has had to refinance their homes and rack up massive credit card debt to keep their heads above water, and those are the ones that haven't been lucky enough to not be foreclosed on.. Up until a year ago there were no homeless in my community, now there are cars of families that live in our park.. Our churches have never had to provide food for so many people, and one church has had to start giving away free meals because someone pointed out that all those people couldn't cook canned goods from the church pantry in their cars. So, where is that everything is so great? Maybe I could tell the many homeless people in our park to head in your direction, since you say things are so great there..

[leesa]

9. "hiring managers expect to add positions"...well, of course they do, they

wouldn't be hiring otherwise, would they?

[SoCalDem]

12. "Adding positions" ...a euphemism for ..gonna call the temp agencies

..Lots of companies do just that these days.. They 'clear the decks' of salaried, benefitted long-time employees, and then just "rent" employees when they need them, and dump them when that particular project or season is past..

There's very little "career job" growth going on.

It's got to be a daunting thing to be graduating from college with a shitload of debt, only to find out that they growth "industries" involve sales, healthcare for aging Boomers, and IT...IT probably pays the most unless the health care happens to be psychiatry or MD specialist, but IT jobs are more easily outsourced, ...so who knows?

[gatorboy]

14. Cool! A "sales" job! I'm sure this will be one of your main duties:

"Would you like to add an apple pie to that Happy Meal, sir?"