The peak hiring season comes around January and February, so better maximize the extra days off to ensure that your job search remains merry and bright!
is now at a five-year low. a fourth straight month of solid hiring, lowering numbers, november s unemployment rate to 7%. that s really good and while u.s. employers adding 203,000 jobs last month. if you re one of the millions of americans still looking for a job, analysts say this could be prime hiring season for you. joining me now, the president of diversified financial consultants. i said it was good but that s because you and i were just talking about it. 7.0% is actually good but are enough people still looking for jobs? it really is good news because the trend for most of the year has been about 170,000 jobs a month. new jobs created. the last four months, that s kind of peaked to about 200,000 jobs. the trend is really going in the right direction. we re starting to get some momentum in the economy. the jobs, the employers are hiring more. and that s music to the ears to a lot of people who want to
the results of sandy from the standpoint of job markets it employs a lot of people in clean up and reconstruction for some short relatively short period after the storm that s a little stimulus to the economy. does it make up for the damage of the storm? no. home improvement retailers are also seeing a surge in sales. home depot stores on long island in new york city and new jersey are slammed with customers and are now hiring 500 new employees to handle the load. this has been very devastating to areas around us the amount of homes that were impacted from it that there is a lot of restoration work that has to be done and done immediately. they re not waiting until the spring where we typically see hiring season. they are doing it now. these home depot jobs are temporary. workers get 120 day contracts but can lead to permanent positions gives 500 people a guaranteed paycheck until spring. shep? shepard: good news for the holidays. rick leventhal in staten