About - Recruiter’s View

Sooner or later, everything in real life influences the jobs markets. So, our topics here range all over the place.

In our search to discover and share what’s really going on, we are particularly trying to answer the questions:

  • Where will jobs be created (and why?)
  • Where will jobs be destroyed (and why?)

This is my commentary on what I see and what I think it means.

People sometimes ask my opinion, because they assume a Recruiter’s activity can be a useful indicator.

And in fact, it’s true that I can pick up on changes in the business environment months ahead of the published numbers.

Understanding the implications of those changes is the trick. Daily conversations with business leaders give me the equivalent of perpetual survey results. And talking to candidates is the perfect reality check.

Ultimately, then, my evaluation is largely formed as an extension of what many, many others have been kind enough to share with me.

So, when you think I’ve got it wrong, I encourage you to tell me what you see from your side of the mountain.

We’re all trying to figure this out together.

Thanks for being a part of our effort!

-TD

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366,000?

By Ted Dieck | Recruiter’s View - Business Climate - Economy - Employment Scene - Market Indicators - Pick | December 16, 2011
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Last week, the improved unemployment numbers were so lovely, even the government didn’t believe them. This week, the reports got even better, and economists still don’t trust ‘em. For whatever reason, jobless claims haven’t fallen this low since the middle of 2008. The federal government’s Random Number Generator surprised us twice. Last week, the Unemployment…

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March Madness

By Ted Dieck | Recruiter’s View - Business Climate - China - Economy - Employment Scene - Energy - Financial Markets - International - Market Indicators - Pick - Political Commentary | March 23, 2011
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The whole world’s going nuts, but events are strangely conspiring to drive business to the U.S. I was still basking in the uplifting e-mails I reported in “February Readers Respond.” It was generally positive stuff, and basically consistent with numbers I was seeing. Except for the part where the whole world started going on “Tilt.”…

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Food and Energy

By Ted Dieck | Recruiter’s View - Economy - Employment Scene - Energy - Pick | March 20, 2011
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Look at it this way: If rising prices include an indication of demand, wouldn’t that also point to where jobs are being created? If you don’t need to eat and you don’t care to do anything, you’re in pretty good shape. Otherwise, the Producer Price Index is here to tell you what you already know:…

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Landmark Events: Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear Disaster

By Ted Dieck | Recruiter’s View - Economy - Employment Scene - Financial Markets - International - Landmark Events - Recent | March 12, 2011
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A magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck Japan on March 11, triggering a tsunami that pushed more than 12 miles inland, crippling four nuclear reactors in Fukushima. In Tokyo, Japan’s famous tremor resistant architecture survived repeated high magnitude aftershocks. It was the tsunami along the northern coast that was most devastating. Destruction from fast moving ocean waters…

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