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• Manpower Employment Outlook Survey Reveals Canadian Employers Expect a Fair Hiring Climate for Second Quarter of 2010 (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
  ---Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:59:00 -0500
  Canadian employers expect a fair hiring climate for the second quarter of 2010, according to the latest results of the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, the most extensive, forward-looking employment survey in the world.
• Optimistic hiring outlook for Charlottetown (The Guardian)
  ---Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:08:23 -0500
  Charlottetown area employers expect an optimistic hiring climate for the second quarter of 2010, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
• US job openings up sharply in Jan., evidence that employers may soon boost hiring (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
  ---Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:20:00 -0500
  WASHINGTON - Job openings in the United States rose sharply earlier this year, a sign that employers might be preparing to step up hiring.
• US job openings up sharply in Jan., evidence that employers may soon boost hiring (Brandon Sun)
  ---Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:28:18 -0500
  WASHINGTON - Job openings in the United States rose sharply earlier this year, a sign that employers might be preparing to step up hiring. The number of openings in January rose about 7.6 per cent, to 2.7 million, compared with December, the Labour Department said.
• US employment index climbs to year-long high (The Age)
  ---Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:08:51 -0500
  A measure of US job prospects rose in February to the highest level in a year, signaling the labor market is poised to add workers, a private report showed.
• US jobs picture set to improve: Morgan Stanley (Brisbane Times)
  ---Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:19:00 -0500
  The US may add as many as 300,000 jobs in March, the most in four years, setting the stage for what some economists say will be sustained employment gains.
• US job openings rise sharply in January (The Age)
  ---Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:53:54 -0500
  Job openings rose sharply earlier this year, evidence that the US employers are slowly ramping up hiring.
• US job openings jump sharply (Marlborough Express)
  ---Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:27:35 -0500
  Job openings rose sharply earlier this year, a sign that US employers might be preparing to step up hiring.
• US employers less willing to hire (Business Times (Malaysia))
  ---Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:39:43 -0500
  NEW YORK: US employers are slightly less willing to hire workers in the coming quarter than they were three months ago, even as hiring intentions improved in most other countries and territories, especially in Asia, according to a quarterly survey by Manpower Inc. Its US survey renewed questions about the pace and sustainability of a forecasted US jobs recovery, and whether eventual jobs ...
• US employers less willing to hire (Business Times (Malaysia))
  ---Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:05:10 -0500
  NEW YORK: US employers are slightly less willing to hire workers in the coming quarter than they were three months ago, even as hiring intentions improved in most other countries and territories, especially in Asia, according to a quarterly survey by Manpower Inc.
• Interview Myths That Keep You From Landing the Job With so few jobs currently available and so many people currently hoping to fill those jobs, standing out in an interview is of utmost importance. While jobs themselves are scarce, job advice is overly abundant. And with an influx of information comes an influx of confusion. What career counsel do you take, and what do you ignore?
• Fed's Bullard: U.S. jobless rate to start falling SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The labor market in the United States is improving and the economy is close to the point when the unemployment rate will start to fall, a top U.S. Federal Reserve official said on Thursday.