Month: September 2013

Staying Competitive In a Candidate-Driven Workplace

The overall economic picture continues to brighten for the life sciences. In August, 169,000 jobs were added to payrolls of employers according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Furthermore, the National Venture Capitalists Association found that VC money flowing…

Summer is Over, Budgeting Begins

With Labor Day behind us, the unofficial end of summer is here. Children are back in school, nights are getting cooler, and football is back. That can only mean one thing, budget season is here. This begins the time of…

Road to Recovery

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicated at the end of 2012 there were 3.6 million job openings monthly, up from 3.2 million in 2011. During the same period average monthly hires remained steady at 3.2 percent. Separations, mostly due…

Healthcare hiring may slow, but field still full of growth

While the latest analysis of employment in the healthcare industry in the United States have ominous predictions for the immediate future of the industry, it remains one of the fields providing the most potential for growth with a high amount of professions seeing high growth.