Manpower: 6% of Honolulu employers to hire in 3Q - Philadelphia Business Journal:

firukendu-anchored.blogspot.com
From July to September, 6 percent of the companie s interviewed in the Honolulu metro area plan to hire more while 11 percent expect to reducdtheir payrolls, according to the survey from Milwaukee-based (NYSE: Seventy-eight percent expect to maintain theif current staff levels and 5 percent remaih uncertain about hiring plans. Hirinb is expected to be a littles lighter than in the second when 10 percent of companies surveyed planned to hire and 12 percent expected to cut said Manpower spokeswoman MaryLou Callahan. For the comingb quarter, job prospects in the Honolulu area appear best in wholesale and retail trade and leisureand hospitality.
Employeras in durable goods manufacturing, nondurable goods manufacturing, information, professional and business services, education and health servicezs and government intend to cut Hiringin construction, transportation and utilities, financial activitiesx and other services is expected to remain unchanged. National surveg results showed little change from thesecond quarter. Of the more than 28,00o0 employers surveyed acrossthe country, 15 percentr expect to increase their staff levelzs during the third quarter, while 13 percent expect to reduces their payrolls. Sixty-seven percent expect no changer in hiring and 5 percent are undecided abouyttheir third-quarter hiring plans.
“Thw data shows continued hesitancyamong employers,” said Jonase Prising, president of the Americas for “They are treading slowly and watching with guardefd optimism, hoping a few quarters of stability will be the precurso r to the recovery.”