Wall Street Journal: Job Offers Rising as Economy Warms Up

[Harry Hope]

Source: Wall Street Journal

From The Wall Street Journal, 12/24/10:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703548604576037612752480904.html

Job Offers Rising as Economy Warms Up

By JAMES R. HAGERTY And JOE LIGHT

As the economy gradually recovers, some big U.S. companies are
cranking up their recruiting and advertising thousands of job
openings, ranging from retail clerks and nurses to bank tellers and
experts in cloud computing.

Many of the new jobs are in retailing, accounting, consulting, health
care, telecommunications and defense-related industries, according to
data collected for The Wall Street Journal by Indeed Inc., which runs
one the largest employment websites.

It said the number of U.S. job postings on the Internet rose to 4.7
million on Dec. 1, up from 2.7 million a year earlier.


Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703548604576037612752480904.html

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Sounds promising

Harry

[Demeter]

1. Bah, Humbug

[IScreamSundays]

2. They are so full of it....

Leave it to the WSJ to pump undiluted koolaid.

[Kolesar]

6. Shilling for the President like they always do

:sarcasm:

[elleng]

8. ...

:thumbsup:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

21. Or the new House.

:shrug:

[Ruperto31]

3. "Light at the end of the tunnel"--sounds familiar. n/t

[ixion]

4. Hogwash

'nuff said.

[Donnachaidh]

5. they must be counting those *fast cash quick* ads on yahoo

Didn't think I'd have to haul out the hipwaders on Christmas eve -- but this piece is pure-D smelly propaganda.

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[Chan790]

12. I think the problem for many people...

is that the jobs that are coming back are not as good as were shed on the way down. Even when the titles are the same, the offers stink.

I've done it all in my life, from banking to barista to retail to bussing and waiting tables to having been a successful NYC screenwriter and published writer, but my general career occupation track has been as a specialist in communications and development for NPOs. My yearly compensation when I left the field in 2006 (I was burnt out and needed to go do something else for a while) was in the mid-30s (and I was willingly working below best offer (~$41K) because I don't think it's appropriate in that field to work for maximizing one's compensation to the detriment of the cause.) Last week I was offered a coordinator-level position one half-step down from a director...for $27K. (That's beyond absurd...that's equal to the starting out-of-college compensation for an entry-level position in that field 10 years ago. I've lost my earlier idealism over that crap since the organization is fundamentally-corporatist and monolithic)

I know nurses, teachers and coders who are receiving offers 20%, 30% or more below where they were laid off...and seeing employers perfectly willing to hire far-less-qualified people (like completely-unqualified people) as long as they make their offer window. There is no good news here unless you're a sucker or only out for you and willing to fuck the rest of us.

We're not willing to accept a permanent downward correction in earning coupled with higher "productivity" while the fat cats are getting richer and we're starving...and to my mind, those among us who are, are no better than functionally scabs, except that we done-fucked-up and didn't organize the working white-collar workforce on its' way up so we've got no ammo to fight back with.

[Donnachaidh]

16. you obviously haven't spent hours looking for jobs on the internet

Only to find out that those job search engines are all linking to each other, looking for applicants while the jobs are few and far between.

This whole piece was based on info taken from one of the most useless job search engines out there.

What IS dreadful is the way some will automatically namecall dissent. Big Tent -- ever hear of that phrase? Look it up.

[madrchsod]

9. jobs are picking up around here but people are still losing their jobs...

job loses are in manufacturing not the service sector.

[high density]

10. There we go, got the Repukes in and Bush tax cuts extended-- now it's time for some jobs

Clever.

[handmade34]

11. yup

good scam

[Lugnut]

13. Baloney.

There are a lot of job listings but nobody seems actually be hiring. A family member is unemployed since April and has been sending out resumes regularyly. She is seeing the same ads for the same job descriptions being regularly reposted. A lot of chain yanking is going on. Hiring, not so much.

[sellitman]

14. BS

It's just as bad now as it was a year ago. Maybe worse.

I've been looking for work for 2 years

[ClarkUSA]

15. A 99er I know got a decent job in his industry this month. His company is now hiring 100 more folks.

The company in the next town over has started to hire 1200 this month alone. The people on this thread who are dissing this news don't know what they're talking about.

[Donnachaidh]

17. so basing the few jobs coming open in your area is proof that the country is getting better.

Now THAT'S a Fox News analogy if I ever heard one. :rofl:

[Ruperto31]

18. Yep. "For instance is not proof." (Old Yiddish saying.)

[ClarkUSA]

20. 1300 jobs is not "few" & ignoring good news re: jobs is a Fox News conclusion if I ever heard one.

You're also wrong is assuming this is happening in my area (although jobs are being created by the companies that are headquartered in my town if the classifieds are to be believed). My friend the former 99er will be moving his family to a neighboring state 200 miles away, in a state capital that has a population of less than 100,000 and a regional population of less than 900,000 which makes the impact of these jobs that much greater if you consider the number of families coming into the area and the number of homes that will be bought. My friend will be selling his home with his new company's assistance and eventually plans to buy a home in the region.

Just because the millions of jobs lost under BushCo haven't magically reappeared in the past two years is no reason to suppose everything is just as bad as it was prior to President Obama took office and ignore the very real evidence that jobs are being created every month at a clip not seen in years.

Constantly disparaging the real progress that this administration has made with the economy since 2008 is what Fox News does. I am not the one doing that.

[wordpix]

19. true story: friend nearly went out of business 2 yrs. ago but this year is doing well

She runs a framing business in a small northeastern town. I think that IS a sign of a recovering economy since framing art isn't a necessity, it's a nicety.

She is doing so well this year that she's working flat out during her two days off catching up with the actual framing, since she spends so much time meeting customers with orders.