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Good news for job seekers, employers are now the most optimistic they have been since the setting of 2007.
The employment services company Manpower asked more than 11,000 employers in the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States about their hiring plans for the three-month period to December and found that employers plan in all 50 states to increase their workforce in the fourth quarter of the year 2015th
Of the employers surveyed, 21% plan to increase their workforce and 6% say that they reduce their workforce. This results in a net increase of 15% planning to hire - or 18% when adjusted for seasonality, the 2% qoq and 3% compared to last year at this time.
These are the strongest predictions in eight.
"The US labor market continues to show steady growth, broad-based, with important steps over time as employment opportunities for seven and a half years, the unemployment rate at 5.1% and weekly unemployment has recently released a low of 40 reached years," said Jonas Prising, managing director of Manpower, in a press release. "But, as the labor market tightened, employers are increasingly telling us they really knowing qualified applicants must: -. A situation not helped by the low participation of its workforce"
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