Hiring Forecasts Optimistic for Second Quarter of 2013!
The Society for Human Resource Management's latest Jobs Outlook Survey indicates that 50% of human resource professionals are confident the economy will add jobs in the second quarter. The SHRM survey, released April 1, concurs with a Manpower Employment Outlook Survey released March 12 by ManpowerGroup. The 50% number is an increase from the fourth quarter of 2012, when 45% of HR professionals said they were optimistic about job growth.
Some 44% of companies will be hiring in the second quarter, up from 35% in the second quarter of 2012. Among employer categories, medium-sized companies (those with 100 to 499 employees) will be the most likely to add jobs (47%) in the second quarter, JOS data show. In the first quarter of 2013, 49% of organizations added jobs, up from 40% in the first quarter of 2012. Another 11% decreased staffing levels in the first quarter of 2013, nearly unchanged from the 10% that shed jobs a year ago.
