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Worker Confidence Slips Further as Hudson Employment Index Drops to 96.8
Hurricanes and Gas Prices Take Toll on Financial Outlook
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For the second consecutive month, U.S. worker confidence fell to an historic low, as the Hudson Employment IndexSM declined 1.4 points to 96.8. The aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita contributed to a steep decline in workers' optimism about their personal finances, which were previously impacted by high energy prices. Additionally, hiring plans stalled slightly. This month's Index is ten points lower than one year ago as well as the start of 2005.

While there was virtually no change in how workers rated their finances this month, 47 percent indicated their financial situation is getting worse. This is the highest figure on record and seven points higher than the 2005 yearly average of 40 percent. Just 36 percent of the workforce claimed that their finances were improving in September, compared to this year's average of 41 percent.

Hiring expectations also suffered another slight setback as only 29 percent of employees reported their firms expected to hire in the coming months. After holding steady at about 31 percent for nine successive months, this was the second month in a row where hiring outlook dropped by one point. The percent of workers anticipating layoffs remained at 17 percent.

"As we might have expected, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita exacerbated an already dampened personal financial outlook," said Jeff Anderson, senior vice president, Hudson, North America. "Even as we anticipate hiring to rebound in the coming months, financial concerns have a real potential to undermine workers' overall confidence in the employment market."

Confidence fell in nearly every state were data is available, most dramatically in Pennsylvania, California, and Texas. For example, Texas employees statewide reported weakened confidence in their personal finances, less anticipated hiring activity, more expected layoffs and lower levels of job satisfaction.

Despite the overall Index decline, some positive news can be pulled from the data. Workers nationwide were happier with their jobs in September, with three-quarters (75 percent) of the workforce reporting satisfaction, up from 72 percent in August. Confidence was also up among workers in the IT and accounting & finance sectors, as well as among African-American workers. In contrast, confidence fell significantly among workers in the manufacturing sector.

	All Workers September 2005	All Workers Average 2005	All Workers September 2004
Expect Hiring	29%	31%	32%
Personal finances improving	36%	41%	43%
Personal finances worsening	47%	40%	39%
Happy with job	75%	74%	71%

Statistically significant data was not obtained this month in areas impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Hudson recently launched an updated website with easier access to metro market and occupational sector data. The URL remains www.hudson-index.com.

Hudson, one of the world's leading professional staffing, outsourcing and human capital solution providers, publishes the Hudson Employment Index, a monthly measure of U.S. workforce confidence in the employment market. Next month's Hudson Employment Index will be released on November 2, 2005.

The Hudson Employment Index
The Hudson Employment Index (Hudson-Index.com) measures the U.S. workforce's confidence in the employment market. Based upon monthly telephone surveys with approximately 9,000 U.S. workers, the Index tracks aggregate employment trends around career opportunities, hiring intentions, job satisfaction and retention. The data is compiled each month by Rasmussen Reports, LLC, an independent research firm (RasmussenReports.com).




 You Should Know

Australia:

• Most RCSA respondents classified a "mature aged employee" as aged 50-plus. Of the RCSA members surveyed, 91.7 per cent said older workers had good skills; 87.5 per cent felt mature workers had more life experience to apply to decision making; 87.5 per cent did not believe mature workers cost more to employ; and 85 per cent of those surveyed reported that mature workers stayed longer in the job. Despite the glowing report for the older workers already employed, 62.5 per cent of the recruiters surveyed said they had encountered difficulties in convincing clients to employ mature candidates.(News.com.au)

Global:

• After all the doom and gloom about classifieds during the past few years, there's finally some excellent news for newspapers. They're getting a lot more competitors. That may sound like a contradiction, but it's not. Let me explain.
  
  The key to winning the classified advertising war is "Growing the Marketplace." If your classified marketplace is the only  place people turn for a job, a home, a car, to buy "stuff" or to find a connection in personals, you win. Doesn't matter if you're a dot-com, a newspaper, a "micro-local" site or Craig Newmark. (Newspapers and Technology)
   
• The global workforce: Ours is not the first generation to experience large scale migration; the 19th century saw Europeans filling up "empty" countries in the Americas and Australasia. But globalization has engendered a second, and geographically far broader, wave of migration. An estimated 200m people now live and work outside their own country, double the number of such migrants 25 years ago.
  
  Though in total this is still only 3 per cent of world population, migration on this scale has aroused fears in host countries about the loss of identity and security, and in migrants' countries of origin about loss of skills. This migratory trend is likely to continue as long as many developing countries have a lower economic growth rate, a higher birth rate and a worse governance record than most developed countries. (FinancialTimes)
   
• A few days ago, I talked with Daniel Finnigan, general manager of Yahoo's HotJobs.com career site. I have to admit that I begun our conversation by asking Finnigan what was wrong with HotJobs.com, which has been steadily falling farther behind competitors CareerBuilder.com and Monster.com in traffic over the past year. And Finnigan told me that sales growth, not traffic, is a metric I should have looked at, instead. This quarter, Finnigan says the site should post its highest year-over-year revenue growth in history. (BusinessWeek)
   
• Lycos today plans to launch the first product in its latest incarnation as a content destination -- a "social interaction platform" called Planet, adapted from an offering by corporate parent Daum Communications. Users can create a mini site, or "planet," without any HTML coding. They can then add a blog, or upload photos and create slide shows with animated special effects and music using Lycos' Flash-based MyTV Player. "Our intent was not to create another profile product, like Friendster or MySpace," Brian Kalinowski, chief content officer for Lycos, told ClickZ News. "This was really designed as a tool for self-expression." (ClickZNetwork)
   
• Netscape co-founder Mark Andreessen has launched a new online services startup called Ning that aims to provide developers with tools to build web-based applications that help people connect and communicate like classifieds service Craigslist and dating outfit Match.com. Launching the company with Mr. Andreessen is software executive Gina Bianchini, former president of Harmonic Communications. Ms. Bianchini is the CEO of the company, which currently employs 14 people. (RedHerring)
  
  
• On-demand CRM player Salesforce.com is offering Siebel Systems employees a $5,000 signing bonus if they jump ship, hoping to profit from any uncertainty that may have been caused by the recent announcement of Siebel's impending acquisition by Oracle. In an internal staff memo to Salesforce.com employees that was passed to the press, the company's CEO Marc Benioff said that on top of a $5,000 referral fee program that rewards Salesforce.com staff for referring applicants that the company goes on to hire, it is now also offering former Siebel employees a $5,000 signing bonus if they are hired before the end of December. (Computer Business Online)
   
• IBM is taking aim at the baby boomers with a new consulting service. The new service is designed to help companies transition as many from the extraordinarily large post-WWII generation retire and leave the workforce, creating more holes than there are people in younger generations to fill: the so-called greying of the workforce, writes Lance Travis of AMR Research. The Bottom Line: IBM's new consulting service may help companies prepare for their aging workforce, but long term, the aging population will force companies to define their outsourcing strategy. (SupplyChainReview)
   
• In San Francisco a daily newspaper that enjoys a virtual monopoly situation, the Chronicle, lost sixty million dollars last year as its circulation declined from a peak of around 750,000 to around 440,000. Its onetime power to influence elections and social policies has been significantly weakened. If the trend continues, the newspaper will become irrelevant.
  
  There are similar developments elsewhere in the U.S., even though the number of morning daily newspapers has increased (the Chronicle is a morning newspaper) over the last 50 years, while the number of afternoon newspapers has decreased. According to a statistical summary of the U.S. daily newspaper industry posted on the internet by the Newspaper Association of America, there were 1,772 daily papers (morning/evening totaled) in 1950; but the number had dropped to 1,456 by 2003. (OpEdNews.com)
   
• Most human resource people believe Linux is an air conditioner company. They get confused between the term Linux and Lennox. So, HR recruiters define their job profiles like this:
  
  Linux programmer needed by enterprise. Skills required:
  
  REFRIGERANT METERING DEVICE CALIBRATION
  LEAK TESTING
  LIQUID & SUCTION LINE SERVICE VALVES KNOWLEDGE
  START-UP
  CHARGING FOR TXV SYSTEMS
  
  Five to ten years of relevant training and master plumbers' license required. Will accept equivalent for H1B applicants. Microsoft Certifications a plus. (O'Reilly Development Center)
   

New Zealand:

• Nationwide confidence in the employment market remained steady in the September quarter, the latest Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence Index shows. The index was 130.1 in the September quarter, virtually unchanged from 103.2 in the previous quarter. A number over 100 indicates there are more optimists than pessimists. (NZHerald)

UK:

• The number of people working beyond the state retirement age could more than double within a decade because people cannot afford to retire, according to research. One in four people between the ages of 55 and 64 feel they cannot stop working at 60 or 65 because they do not have a big enough pension or sufficient savings. A third of women think they will have to work beyond state pension age. (Telegraph)
   
• A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute in the UK has concluded that, rather than suffering from a 'brain drain' of qualified researchers, the UK benefits from a substantial net immigration of academics. The report is based on a previous study of staff movement in higher education institutions, as well as analysis of the publication records of academics, which can also reveal their movements between different institutions and countries. (CordisNews)

US:

• Many of the 64 million baby boomers are headed for retirement at the end of this decade. And that is going to cause some significant problems for many employers who haven't planned for the baby boomers - 40 percent of the U.S. labor force - to leave their ranks. It's especially significant, say experts, when adding in the fact that many baby boomers are in mid- to upper-level management and there aren't enough people in the next age group to replace all of them. (Tucson Citizen)
   
• In-depth with Landmark CEO Frank Batten Jr. Landmark Communications Inc. recently decided to sell its share of Trader Publishing Co., a classified advertising business started with Cox Communications in the early 1990s. The Norfolk-based media company, which owns The Virginian-Pilot, said it wanted to sell Trader to reduce its exposure to classified advertising. As a private company, Landmark declined to disclose how much of its annual revenue is derived from such advertising. (PilotOnLine)
   
• Off-the-wall reasons for calling off sick are on the rise as U.S. workers are increasingly willing to blame everything from wet cement and snakes to ghosts and a higher power to get a day off from work, according to a survey released on Tuesday.This year, 43 percent of U.S. workers called in sick when they felt fine, up from 35 percent that did so last year, the survey of 2,450 employees from CareerBuilder.com showed. (Reuters)
   
• After years of delays, false hopes and procedural haggling, the contract workers who sued Microsoft in 1992 for denying them benefits are finally getting paid this month. Thousands of long-term temporary workers hired during Microsoft's early growth spurt sued because they were denied benefits given to regular employees. They won a record $97 million settlement in 2001 after a court found they were improperly restricted from the company stock-purchase plan, and Microsoft was forced to change its temporary-worker policies and limit the length of contracts. (BillingsGazette)
   
• Between 2003 and 2004 the employment gap widened between the number of working-age Americans with disabilities who are employed and those workers without disabilities.. The finding, which coincides with the start of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, was part of a series of reports released by Cornell University in collaboration with the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD).  The researchers found that in 2004 the "employment gap" between those with disabilities in the workforce and those workers without disabilities was 40.3 percent. That represents a .6 percentage point increase from 2003, when the gap was 39.7 percent. (Newswise)
   
• If you're one of the millions of Americans who has looked for a job online, you may have been the target of one of the newest forms of identity fraud: resume theft.  Experts say identity thieves (posing as employers) are infiltrating online job sites in search of valuable personal information, such as phone numbers, addresses, even Social Security numbers. Anyone who posts a resume online is potentially at risk. It's hard to know who's responding to your resume: a real employer or a crook. (ABCNews)
   
• How do todays lighting industry savy job seekers find the perfect job? Do they search and apply for jobs online, or do they post a resume on the lightboard? Which way works? The fact is they both work! And if your serious about advancing your career and leveraging your skills then you need to do both! The lightboard has been on-line since 1997 but it is still a new tool to many lighting industry experts searching for a new lighting industry career. (Lightboard.net)
   
• In my experience, the older worker, particularly the really older worker, tends to be the best. Why? Most people who work beyond retirement age are motivated because so many of them are working when they don't have to. When you do something you don't have to, it means you want to and, most likely, you're good at it. It's crazy that we don't do a better job of harnessing the energy and abilities of older workers. (ArizonaRepublic)

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