Positive Shift in Mid-Atlantic Region Employment

DoubleStar, Inc., a specialist in recruitment process outsourcing and workforce analytics solutions announces the results of its quarterly online survey of Human Resources decision-makers of leading companies in the Mid-Atlantic area. The survey seeks to quantify four major indicators of employment market health from the corporate perspective: headcount, hiring activity, recruitment staffing, and recruiting budgets.

Key highlights of the survey reveal that not only are many companies planning on increasing their hiring in the fourth quarter of 2009 (Q4) as compared to the third quarter of 2009 but that few organizations report plans to downsize in Q4. Recruiting budgets and staff remain flat, however, suggesting a continued hesitancy to allocate resources for staffing.

The report further indicates that fewer companies are citing attrition, layoffs, and decreases in business as the drivers to headcount change. Many are reporting increases in business, increases in R&D, and mergers and acquisitions as their key drivers says DoubleStar.

Posted by RecruitingTrends.com on November 11, 2009. Filed under Recruiting, Retention. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry