By Martin C. Daks
Originally Posted on NJBIZ.com - December 29, 2010
Businesses plan to boost their full-time hires in 2011, according to a national survey released Wednesday by CareerBuilder, an online job-search company. And some New Jersey headhunters say they’re confident about employment prospects, also.
“Research from our professional hiring report found that 88 percent of executives are confident in their growth prospects for the first quarter of 2011,” said Ryan Gatto, regional manager for Robert Half International’s Paramus office. “That’s up from previous quarters in 2010.”
But others said they see a mixed picture.
“We’re seeing a lot of temporary hiring in New Jersey, but not as much permanent,” said Patricia S. Koziol, executive director of the New Jersey Staffing Alliance, in Kinnelon. “The indications are that employers here are still cautious over whether the economic recovery is sustainable enough to warrant permanent hiring.”
Frank Wyckoff, president of Eatontown-based Snelling Staffing Services–The Wyckoff Group, said he’s seen an increase in permanent hiring for leadership positions.
“Some of the industries are surprising, like manufacturing, where we’re seeing demand for plant managers and industrial engineers,” he said. “We’ve also noticed more permanent hires in sales. Companies usually don’t want temporary people in their sales department.”
Right now, though, some New Jersey businesses don’t seem to be acting very confident. The Edison-New Brunswick and Newark-Union metropolitan divisions lost 19,400 and 4,400 jobs, respectively, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. In contrast, employment in the Nassau-Suffolk metropolitan division increased by 6,000 from the previous November. In the New York-White Plains-Wayne Division, the job count increased by 9,100.
E-mail Martin C. Daks at mdaks@njbiz.com.