Numbers Point to a Long, Slow Recovery
Economists expect that tomorrow’s jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will show 175,000 jobs were lost in September, the smallest since July 2008. A Bloomberg survey also says economists expect the unemployment rate to rise to 9.8 percent, the highest since 1983. An ADP report released this morning foreshadows the lower, yet still continuing job loss. The ADP National Employment Report says the U.S
Surveys Show Workers Are Ready To Make Changes
A raft of recent surveys shows that the recession is having a profound impact on workers and employment trends worldwide. Even though they measure different things — global hiring, immigration repatriation, and career trends — there’s a theme here, which is that the economy is global and when it recovers, things will not go back to the way they were. There’s the report from Monster this week that says vast numbers of workers are ready to swit ch careers for a new job
Companies Expect To Hire Fewer 2010 Grads
There’s a report out that should be a wake-up for the procrastinators in the class of 2010. The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE ) says employers are cutting back next year’s college hiring plans by 7 percent. That may not seem like much until you consider that employers reduced this year’s college grad hiring by 21 percent. That seven percent is on top of this year’s cuts, meaning that there will be almost 30 26.53 percent fewer jobs being offered to the current crop of seniors than their counterparts had in 2008
Monster, CareerBuilder Losing Traffic Race To HotJobs
It could be an uncomfortable 60 minutes tomorrow for Monster ’s CEO when he presents the company’s 2nd quarter numbers during a conference call with Wall Street analysts. Yahoo Finance says analysts are expecting Monster to earn a penny a share on revenues of about $225 million. Last year for the same quarter, the company had sales of $354.3 million. In the first quarter of this year, Monster had a loss. I have no particular insight on what the revenue and expense numbers will be
Global Healthcare Provider Bupa Unleashes Employee Knowledge with Jive Social Software
PRESS RELEASE FROM JIVE SOFTWARE PORTLAND, OR, May 28, 2009 – Jive, the Social Business Software leader, announced that Bupa is connecting its worldwide network of employees to promote new initiatives and company values with Jive’s Social Business Software platform. Bupa is a leading health and care company with 52,000 employees and over 10 million customers in more than 190 countries. As Bupa continues to expand into new markets, it has become increasingly important to help connect its people around the world.
Vendors Reach Recruiters With Coffee Mugs, Rockets and Information
There are also at least three companies exhibiting here that focus on helping employers market their jobs through search engine optimization, a term which means tweaking a Web page in such way as to improve its placement on the results a search engine returns.
