Houston companies hedge on hiring, manpower survey says (Baytown, Sugar Land: home, employment)

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[LEFT]Houston employers will remain cautious when considering new hires through the end of the year, according to a survey released Tuesday.
Eighteen percent of employers in the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown region will increase staff levels during the fourth quarter, while 9 percent will reduce payrolls, according to the quarterly Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
The bulk of employers, some 71 percent, will maintain current headcounts.
Although Houston-area employers are less optimistic than during the third quarter, they are much more positive than a year ago. In the fourth quarter of 2009, only 11 percent of Houston employers expected to add staff, while 10 percent planned job cuts.


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[Supermac34]

A friend of mine that works for a headhunting company that is involved with finance and IT positions has said that she is as busy as she has been in about 2 years. She has said there are a good number of positions in Houston and hiring is fairly brisk (at least compared to what it was) but she is getting triple the amount of applicants as normal.

Most companies in Houston right now have no interest in relo, however. They don't even want to bother with candidates that want to relo and don't want the company to pay for it for some reason. She thinks it is silly since you can cherry pick some good people from around the country, but most companies are still looking to hire locally as they can count on that person wanting to stay once the economy turns around and the person won't bolt back to their home state in 2 years.

Her biggest concern is that while she gets triple the applicants, the quality applicants are as rare as ever, at least in Houston, and people that are currently employed and want to switch jobs are having a good time of it.

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Originally Posted by Supermac34

A friend of mine that works for a headhunting company that is involved with finance and IT positions has said that she is as busy as she has been in about 2 years. She has said there are a good number of positions in Houston and hiring is fairly brisk (at least compared to what it was) but she is getting triple the amount of applicants as normal.

Most companies in Houston right now have no interest in relo, however. They don't even want to bother with candidates that want to relo and don't want the company to pay for it for some reason. She thinks it is silly since you can cherry pick some good people from around the country, but most companies are still looking to hire locally as they can count on that person wanting to stay once the economy turns around and the person won't bolt back to their home state in 2 years.

Her biggest concern is that while she gets triple the applicants, the quality applicants are as rare as ever, at least in Houston, and people that are currently employed and want to switch jobs are having a good time of it.

I see ! Things will be good I think