U.S. Company Hiring Seen Up from Year Ago
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The pace of hiring for U.S. companies  in the fourth quarter is expected to be consistent with the  solid employment activity of the past six months, and much  improved from a year ago, according to Manpower Inc. MAN.N.
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In its latest quarterly survey, the staffing firm Manpower contacted 16,000 US companies, and about 25 percent of them said they expect to have more openings in the first three months of the new year.
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As the economy improves and companies begin to invest more in IT projects, demand for senior IT workers will help drive double-digit salary increases for top techies through 2007, according to a new Meta Group report.
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While thousands of layoffs are expected, other openings may mean an easier rebound for workers than in 2001.
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Growth in the huge U.S. services sector rose in December, although employment declined slightly, according to a survey published on Wednesday.
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The U.S. jobs picture may have been better than first estimated from April 2005 to March 2006, according to new Labor Department estimates.
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Business activity in the U.S. and Europe cranked up a notch at the tail end of 2004, but companies remained cautious about taking on new workers according to surveys in the dominant service sector of major Western economies released on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK The US labor market snapped out of its summer lull to add 337,000 new jobs in October, the biggest increase since March, the Labor Department reported Friday, raising hopes that American businesses were overcoming years of caution and beginning
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Overall, the results of the latest Manpower Employment Survey suggest that US employers plan to increase hiring after the new year.
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US retailers are hiring at least an extra 800,000 people to chip in during the holidays, up from 635,900 in 2002, industry data show.
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The Labor Department reported Friday that the 2.2 million new jobs created in 2004 were the most in any year since 1999, when employers added 3.2 million positions, based on a government survey of businesses.
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A monthly index of online recruitment  rose to a record level in May, reflecting hiring demand in most  industries, Monster Worldwide Inc.  said on Thursday.
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Gearing up for the holidays, employers boosted hiring in November, and hundreds of thousands of jobseekers streamed into the market, nudging the unemployment rate up to 4.5 percent.
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The pace of hiring for U.S. companies in the fourth quarter is expected to be consistent with the solid employment activity of the past six months, and much improved from a year ago, according to Manpower Inc. .
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The pace of growth at U.S. factories  picked up in December, boosted by an increase in new orders and  despite a decline in employment, a report showed on Monday.
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WASHINGTON - The US job market brightened in August as employers added 144,000 workers to their payrolls and hiring totals for the two prior months were revised up, the Labor Department (search) reported on Friday.
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Employers are more optimistic about first-quarter hiring than they have been in four years, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.