So where exactly ARE new jobs being created? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the healthcare industry added 30,000 new jobs to the USA’s economy last month (August 2011). This fact seems to support previously-released research from the BLS suggesting that 26 percent of all new jobs created in the U.S. economy between [...]
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Great Opportunity to Learn About the Healthcare Industry
Posted in Networking, Charlotte Region, Research + Statistics, Job Search Strategies, tagged Darton Group, Mark Weber, Bureau of Labor Statistics, ProNet Charlotte, Carolinas Healthcare System, Curo Health Services, CPCC Harris, Healthcare Employment Trends, Employment Statistics 2011 on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Trendspotting – Contract Workers
Posted in Job Search Strategies, Research + Statistics, Workplace Trends, tagged A Temporary Solution for a New American Worker, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Charlotte labor statistics, Darton Group, Employment Statistics, NPR, Temporary Labor Statistics on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the total number of temporary help employees has risen by nearly 500,000 since September 2009, a 29 percent jump for the category. During the same period, overall private jobs have grown less than 1 percent. Last week, NPR covered the upward trend in contract/temporary jobs in an article [...]
Highlights – Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
Posted in Research + Statistics, Workplace Trends, tagged BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Charlotte employment, Charlotte jobs, Darton Group, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, JOLTS, Labor Statistics, workforce statistics on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) dated September 8, 2010. The DARTON team has reviewed the report and found the following highlights of interest. When the recession began in December 2007, there were 1.8 unemployed persons per job opening. In November 2009, the ratio rose [...]
Employment Trends in Consulting and Temp Staffing
Posted in Research + Statistics, tagged American Staffing Association, BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consulting Trends, Darton Group, Temporary Staffing Statistics, Temporary Staffing Trends, US Employment Rate on July 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest jobs reports yesterday. The USA unemployment rate dipped from 9.7 percent in May 2010 to 9.5 percent in June 2010. It is being widely reported that the improvement is actually tied to more people opting out of the job seeking process (which is obviously troubling). It is interesting [...]
Jobs: The Road to Recovery
Posted in In the News, tagged BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, CareerBuilder, Charlotte Economy, Charlotte jobs, Charlotte Temp Staffing, Darton Group, Staffing Industry Analysts, USA Today on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So what is going on with the road to recovery for jobs? Last week the BLS reported that total nonfarm payrolls in the USA increased by 162,000 jobs while the unemployment rate remained constant at 9.7% for the 3rd month in a row. DARTON’s take? We continue to see positive news suggesting that the road [...]
Workforce Trend Alert: Historic Reversal
Posted in Research + Statistics, Workplace Trends, tagged Bureau of Labor Statistics, Darton Group, USA employment statistics, USA Today, Women in Workforce Statistics on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the first time ever, the number of women in the USA workforce is about to exceed the number of men. USA Today ran a front page story yesterday that cited statistics from the most recent numbers available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/). Of the USA’s 132 million jobs in June 2009, women held [...]
Occupational Pay: Charlotte vs. Other Metro Areas
Posted in Compensation, Uncategorized, tagged BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Charlotte Salaries, Occupational Pay, Pay Comparison, Pay Relatives, The Darton Group, Wage Surveys on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Friday, the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) http://www.bls.gov/ released its most recent survey results showing 2007 Occupational Pay Comparisons Among Metropolitan Areas. Of course, the Darton Group team immediately leaped into the data specific to Charlotte and the finance profession. So what did we learn? Let’s begin by defining the term “pay relatives“. Pay relatives [...]
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