New College Grads Find Job Market Tough

PHILADELPHIA, PA, August 17, 2011 – To no one’s surprise, this year’s college graduates are finding the job market tough, according to a survey conducted by Right Management, workforce consulting experts within ManpowerGroup. By graduation day just six percent had lined up the job they want.

More than 300 recent graduates were surveyed by Right Management – the world leader in outplacement and job search assistance – about their job hunting and career plans.

Market and Talent Competition Heating Up, Redfish Introduces Webinar on Closing Candidates in a Hot Job Market

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – Jul 12, 2011) – “As the market heats up, candidates no longer go months without returned phone calls, but rather, quite the opposite,” reports Executive Recruiter Joanna Edwards. “With a positive shift in the economy comes a new set of challenges that hiring managers must be prepared to combat.”

Simply Hired Releases February Job Trends Report

Today, Simply Hired released its February job trends report highlighting national and local market outlooks, and industry and employer trends.

Some of this month’s findings include:

• A 3.8% increase in nationwide hiring compared to January data
• A -2% dip in tech industry openings
• A double digit spike in military related job listings.

Economy Provides No Time Outs for Time Off

Shrinking and frozen compensation budgets haven’t stopped nonprofit organizations from employing innovative tactics to keep their employees happy, recent research finds…

More College Grads Off to a Start; Salaries Lag Slightly

According the latest survey into the matter, hiring of recent college graduates is projected to rebound by more than 10 percentage points in 2011, and their starting salaries have apparently stabilized. Notably, however, those starting salaries are down, slightly, year-over-year…

Unseen Job Market for Executives Lurks Beneath the Surface

A high percentage of unemployed professionals means recruiters are inundated with the requests of job seekers who span a broad spectrum of capabilities (e.g. from the highly qualified, to the not-so-qualified) whenever a job posting goes online. Sifting through all that information, even with technology, can be a challenge.

Nearly Half of Industries Hiring, but Majority Need Specialized Skills

More than 48 percent of industries experienced a quarterly percentage gain in online jobs posted, according to Beyond.com, Inc.’s Second Quarter 2010 Career Trend Analysis Report, released earlier this week. This reconciles with findings fromMonster Employment Index, which has shown a year-over-year increase in online job postings for the past six months. More than 73 percent of employers were looking for full-time employees, according to Beyond’s findings, an increase of 12 percent from the previous quarter. Healthcare and Medical represented the largest percentage gain in overall jobs posted (5.57 percent), followed by 2.24 percent for Sales and Sales Management.

Job Market Persists in Exhibiting Signs of Split Personality Disorder

For several months, the job market has exhibited various characteristics seemingly at odds with each other. Data from July continues this trend. Concurrently, however, job cuts continue apace: Employers announced plans to shed 41,676 workers in July, according to global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., which released its latest report on planned job cuts on Aug. 4. The 6 percent increase in layoffs, compared to the 39,358 layoffs in June, also mirrors others’ findings over many months’ time.

The Job Market Is Over, Under, Sideways, Down

Where’s the job market headed? Just ask The Yardbirds, and they just might answer you with one of their greatest hits from the ’60s, “Over Under Sideways Down.” And they’d be right. According to data from several sources we’re either over the recession, under the pall of it still, or looking sideways to healthy job markets elsewhere, and against this backdrop, employees are feeling down in key markets.

Why Generation Y Should Feel Good about the Job Market

Amid a rocky spate punctuated by a stock market in free fall and the implementation of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and ensuing American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, as well as a bevy of other hits both financial and psychological to the U.S. economy, the job market for new graduates had been floundering.