Forecasters increase estimates of GDP growth in US

Forecasters increased their estimates for growth in US gross domestic product for this year as well as for 2018 and 2019, according to the first-quarter edition of the Survey of Professional Forecasters released today by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

For the full year 2017, forecasters now...

Canada adds 48,300 jobs in January

Canada added 48,300 jobs in January from December, building on gains observed in the latter part of 2016, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by Statistics Canada. The number of full-time jobs rose by 15,800 in January, following a significant increase in December; part-time jobs...

New ranking lists most attractive staffing markets worldwide

Ireland remains the most attractive staffing market for the third consecutive year, according to Staffing Industry Analysts’ new report, “Most Attractive Staffing Markets Globally 2017.” Ireland scored well across the criteria measured, particularly with regard to the low level of regulation on...

Tech job growth in Bay Area has rapidly decelerated (The Mercury News)

The technology industry’s job growth in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area region has dramatically decelerated, according to The (San Jose, Calif.) Mercury News’ analysis of figures released by state labor officials and Beacon Economics. The tech industry’s annual job growth throttled back...

People: ZRG, Korn Ferry, Star Staffing

Executive search firm ZRG Partners Inc. added three managing directors to the firm. Allen Brady is managing director in Seattle, and he is a member of the firm’s industrial practice and also adds sector depth to the West Coast aerospace and defense team. Jill Schofield is managing director and head...

Army taps six firms to provide physician staffing (GovCon Wire)

Six companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $48 million contract to provide temporary physician staffing services to the US Army, GovCon Wire reports. The Army Medical Command received 14 bids for the shared firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation. Contractors...

TrueBlue revenue falls 9% in Q4

TrueBlue Inc. (NYSE: TBI) reported revenue fell 9.3% in its fiscal fourth quarter, which included a 14^th week; the decline was 14% on a comparable 13-week basis. However, revenue rose 5% on a comparable-week basis when excluding Amazon, the company’s largest customer.

TrueBlue previously cutbacks in...

CIO and CTO top list of highest tech salaries in 2017

Chief information officers and chief technical officers top this year’s list of highest-paid technology professionals, according to a report by Mondo, a provider of technology and marketing staffing, according to the annual technology salary guide released by Mondo, a New York-based IT and digital...

Industrial hiring down 17% in Q4, index finds

Industrial job postings decreased across almost all subsectors in the seasonally weak fourth quarter compared to the third quarter, according to the Q4 2016 Global Industrial Hiring Index released today by executive search firm ZRG Partners. Aerospace and defense was the exception, with job postings...

Jobless claims average falls to lowest level since 1973

The US four-week moving average of initial claims for unemployment insurance fell to 244,250, last week, down 3,750 from the previous week’s unrevised average, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by the US Department of Labor. This is the lowest level for this average since Nov....