Five Signs the Economy is Getting Better

1) Search assignments are up across numerous industry verticals

We have noticed the market picking up with an increase in current client job assignments as well as call in activity.

2) Increase in interview activity

Our client companies remain diligent in their interviewing processes; however the urgency level of their need for top talent has been exhibited in expedited interviews.

3) Increase in company hiring activity

Our clients are moving from interview to hire quicker as our client companies seek to “top grade” their talent force.

4) On a national average, gas prices are down 32.5% compared to this time last year

Thank goodness! Enough said.

5) Pitchers and catchers report on February 2/14/2009

Punxsutawney Phil says it will be an early spring! The days are getting longer and warm weather will be here soon so grab a beverage of your choice and PLAY BALL!!!

Over the past year, it has been very difficult to hear and read all of the negative news of today’s economy that has affected us all. It is about time to hear some good news for a change.

Comments

[The SearchLogix Group]

I am an avid (should I say rabid?) reader of the Wall Street Journal, a negative politicized rag sheet with half-baked statistics endorsed by members of think tanks who are well paid for their biased opinions. You can purchase spin as easily as you can buy a Big Mac. What we read is mostly gloom, doom and zoom, as in "Who's zooming who?"

Companies are now hungry for the most qualified people they can find who are trained, cost-conscious, detail-oriented, have decent people skills and the ability to see the big picture. It doesn't hurt to be creative.

You are so right--the economy is picking up and remaking itself. It won't be the same, but that's OK because it was too heavily dependent on consumption as the primary driver. We are about to see a great unleashing of creativity and new ways to generate wealth and well-being. My prayer, however, is that those Americans who aren't academically or entreprenerially gifted, but who are willing to work hard, will find jobs that will support a modest lifestyle. My motto is, "Let each contribute to the to the full extent of his ability and be counted great because he has done so."

On Dec. 1, at the age of 60 after taking a year off for R&R, I landed a plum job at Emory, proving that if you develop a marketable skill, you will work and prosper.


Carolyn