Category: US News

Recruiter Survey Shows an Increasingly Candidate-Driven Market

Employment markets are most often measured by unemployment, a quintessential macroeconomic indicator. Yet, on the microeconomic level — the level that all companies work on — it is an indicator that is far from representative. In today???s economy, the headline unemployment number is perhaps less representative than ever before.

BLS Employment Situation Report: June 2012

The Labor Department reports that the U.S. unemployment rate remained unchanged in June at 8.2 percent while adding 80,000 jobs, mostly in the professional services sector. The first quarter of 2012 averaged a gain of more than 225,000 positions per month, while the second quarter averaged just 75,000.