“It appears that a real rebound in hiring has started, but with the unemployment rate still at 9.7%, the battle for most of the unemployed is far from over,” says Jay Martin, COO, JobSerf.
“Hiring of management-level executives usually reflects a longer-term view and means businesses are thinking more positively about the future," says Tony Lee, publisher, CareerCast.com. “Now that managerial recruitment activity overall is on the rise, the rest of the job market should follow.”
All cities showed improvement in managerial hiring this month. Leading the rebound in per capita hiring gains were Minneapolis (+21%), Milwaukee (+20%), Detroit (17%) and Hartford (+17%). Cleveland (+2%) and Louisville (+3%) had very minor improvements in hiring.
The top 5 cities for managerial recruitment activity remain Washington, D.C., Boston, San Francisco, Seattle and Baltimore, and the cities with the lowest hiring activity are Tampa, Louisville, Detroit, Memphis and Riverside.
The CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index is an exclusive barometer showing the change in managerial job openings posted online nationally. The Index reveals the differences in job listings by month, and offers valuable trends and forecasts using proprietary employment data hand-counted by a team of researchers.
To read the full report or for more information, visit www.CareerCast.com.
About JobSerf
JobSerf, Inc. (www.jobserf.com) is a privately held Texas-based corporation that pioneered the job search outsourcing (JSO) industry with its revolutionary ‘Find & Apply’ service. The company’s patent-pending process provides for an affordable means to both ‘find & apply’ for jobs on behalf of clients. For more information, visit the website at www.jobserf.com.
About CareerCast.com
CareerCast.com, created by Adicio, is a job search portal that offers extensive local, niche and national job listings from across North America, job-hunting, career-management and HR-focused editorial content, videos and blogs, and provides recruiters with the ability to post jobs directly to more than 800 niche career sites. CareerCast.com also compiles the Jobs Rated Report (www.jobsrated.com), where 200 jobs across North America are ranked based on detailed analysis of specific careers factors.