Job Market Confidence Falters Among HR Pros
Oct. 11, 2011
Staff-HispanicBusiness.com
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The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has released its latest Jobs Outlook Survey (JOS), and the results are less than inspiring for job seekers. While the survey indicates that growth will continue, the survey anticipates the pace of that growth diminishing.
Of the 403 HR professionals responding, 37 percent said that their companies planned to add jobs in the fourth quarter of this year, down from 44 percent for the third quarter. Ten percent indicated that staffing levels would decrease, and 53 percent anticipate maintaining current staffing levels.
A minuscule 4 percent of respondents are "very optimistic" about job growth, and 30 percent are "somewhat optimistic." Neutral responses accounted for 30 percent, another 30 percent are "somewhat pessimistic" and 6 percent are "very pessimistic," with the latter two categories anticipating job losses.
By job category, seekers in the "skilled professionals" class would seem to have a leg up in finding a position. In the third quarter, said respondents, 60 percent found "skilled professionals" the most difficult sort of employee to find and hire, followed by "skilled manual workers" (15 percent), "managers" (13 percent), hourly service worker (7 percent), "contract/temporary workers" (2 percent), "other" (2 percent), and "unskilled manual workers" (1 percent).
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