Despite hiring freezes and pink-slip parties, official employment figures report that, with the exception of manufacturing, new hires in February outran layoffs 135,000 to 94,000. Lain Kennedy columns Joyce Lain Kennedy is a 28-year veteran career columnist for the Los Angeles Times and author of seven books. Companies, many of which have a backlog of unfilled positions, are choosier today. But they're still chasing white collars, particularly in professional, managerial and technical ranks. One West Coast staffing director, with open orders for 800 tech hires, tells me that while information technology demand is softer than only a few months ago, his company is hot on the trail of hardware and photonics specialists.
Opacity clouds the lens for late summer's job market.
Projections, up and down, are exploding from pundits and economists. Don't sweat it. Just check any personal rigidity vestiges at the interviewing door and be primed to burst forth with your HD strengths. He further says former military hires may not need expensive, lengthy training because many were trained on similar machines and processes while in uniform. That is where the games begin.