Nashville area posts lowest jobless rate in January among large US metros

The Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin metropolitan area in Tennessee posted the lowest unemployment rate among all large, US metropolitan areas at 2.8% in January, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today.

The highest jobless rate among large metropolitan areas in December was posted by...

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The National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations announced five new board members at its annual convention last week in Orlando, Fla. The new board members are Cristina Muise, president, Medicus Healthcare Solutions; James Heil, regional VP, The Delta Companies; Gregory Prine, VP, Weatherby Healthcare;...

Baby boomers and Gen Xers to see major disruptions in jobs (MarketWatch)

Boomers and Gen Xers will see major disruptions in how they work, but those disruptions will make it easier for people in their 50s and 60s to keep working, MarketWatch reported citing research by Bain & Co. More older workers may stay on part-time or as independent contractors. The report also found...

IT job growth ‘essentially flat,’ TechServe Alliance

IT job growth in the US started 2018 “essentially flat,” according to the TechServe Alliance, a trade group of IT and engineering staffing and solutions firms. It reported the number of IT jobs in the US edged up by only 0.01% sequentially in February to more than 5.3 million; on a year-over-year...

Construction, healthcare roles make strong showing on Indeed’s best jobs for 2018 list

The best jobs in 2018 come from a wider variety of industries than last year, with a particularly strong showing from construction and healthcare-related roles, according to the best jobs of 2018 list released by jobs website Indeed. The list is based on salary — jobs with a baseline salary of at least...

Partners Personnel acquires Southern California staffing business

Partners Personnel, a new staffing agency launched by Select Staffing's former CEO Steve Sorensen, acquired SEARCH Group Partners Inc.’s Westlake Village, Calif., office, effective March 1.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

SGP, a boutique recruiting firm headquartered in Salt Lake...

Four in 10 execs say caliber of freelance creative talent is rising

More than half of companies employ creative freelancers, according to a survey released today by The Creative Group, a division of Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE: RHI). And 39% say the caliber of freelance creative talent is rising.

“While freelancing is not a new concept in the creative...

Canada adds 32,700 jobs in February, ADP report finds

Canada’s employment rose by 32,700 jobs in February from January, according to the ADP Canada national employment report.

“February was a strong month for job growth in Canada,” said Ahu Yildirmaz, VP and co-head of the ADP Research Institute. “The education and healthcare industry had particularly...

Jobless claims average edges down by 750; initial claims fall by 4,000

The US four-week moving average of initial claims for unemployment insurance edged down to 221,500 last week, down 750 from the previous week’s unrevised average, the US Department of Labor reported. The previous week’s average was revised down by 250.

The four-week moving average decreases the volatility...

Report questions perception of skills gap

While the prevalent national narrative is that there is a troubling skills gap among college-educated workers in the US labor market, analysis conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers questions whether the skills gap is as pervasive as it is cast to be.

In a NACE Journal article...