On Friday of last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their monthly report on the status of employment. In February, unemployment remained at 9.7%. But, fortunately, for the 4^th month in a row since November 2009, nearly 50,000 new temporary jobs were added.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics again reported a significant increase in temporary workers for the month of January - 52,000 jobs added. This is significant for a number of reasons.

First, it confirms that temporary staffing is certainly taking hold and progress is being made by staffing firms in temporary placments with their clients. For the third straight month now, temporary employment has risen in the 50,000 range each mo

If you are a recruiter in San Francisco, then the only way that you can still afford to pay $3 a gallon these days to fill up your gas tank, is if you start increasing your placement rate. That’s easier said than done, because you have a growing talent pool (the unfortunately unemployed), and a slow-recovering job market, where other recruiters are fighting to fill the same position. At a time like this so