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> It's been my experience that the hiring boom usually slows down after
> September, as companies have their budgets in place and don't want to
> take someone one who's not going to be working as often due to all the
> holidays.
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> Yet I'm still getting calls for fairly decent assignments almost every
> day, and often multiple times in a single day! In the face of an
> uncertain job market, this is very heartening.
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> Is this happening to anyone else, or is it a factor of living in the D.C.
> area?
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> Martin
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Martin I would think this is more widespread than just your local area. I heard an economist on the local NPR affiliate earlier this week discussing the job growth here in Florida. To my surprise he said that there was a 71% increase in professional service sector jobs over the same period last year (then again, last year was the year of the hurricane "ménage a trois" in our area), and a much smaller increase in hospitality sector jobs.
Our local STC chapter also sends out an e-mail to members every time they become aware of TW postings in the area, and I must get three or four such notices each week, sometimes with multiple job listings in each e-mail.
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