A recent survey by Manpower Incorporated, an employment services company, found that the City of Charlottesville has the sixth-best employment outlook in the nation for the second quarter of 2005.
In its quarterly report released Tuesday, Manpower stated that the flourishing employment opportunities seen nationally in the first quarter of the year would continue through June, as 30 percent of the 16,000 employers surveyed said they expected to increase their workforce over the next three months. Seven percent of those employers reviewed said they planned to reduce their payroll.
While the nation as a whole is experiencing an upward trend in employment opportunity, Charlottesville itself has a particularly bright prospect in the upcoming quarter, Manpower Local Branch Manager Patricia Hoke said.
"From April to June, 57 percent of companies interviewed in Charlottesville are going to be hiring more employees, compared to 30 percent nationwide," Hoke said.
The rest of the local companies surveyed said they expected to maintain their current level of employment.
Hoke also attributed the successful local job growth to the expansion of all sectors of Charlottesville industry, resulting in well-rounded business development.
Hoke said while not every state reports positive job growth, the Commonwealth as a whole is seeing improvements in employment opportunities, but they are not as strong as those seen in Charlottesville. According to the survey, the Commonwealth saw a 15 percent net increase in the number of employers who were planning to add new hires in the first quarter of 2005.
Here at the University, students can experience the benefits of the rebounding economy as more and more employers are coming to the University to recruit.
Jennifer Hoffman, associate director for employer services in the Career Services Office, said a survey sent out a year ago by the National Administration of Colleges and Employers found that 59.9 percent of employers reported they would be on Grounds in the spring of 2004 to recruit full-time hires. This year, nearly 70 percent of respondents reported a similar finding.
"We are seeing an increase in the number of employers who are coming on Grounds," Hoffman said. "We're not back to where we were in 2000, but we are seeing a consistently slow increase."
Hoffman said a Career Services survey showed that 15 percent of University students were interested in staying in Charlottesville to work after graduation.
"Because of this and because we're so familiar with this community, next year Career Services is going to have a local job fair, which we have not had before," Hoffman said. She added that Career Services also is working to increase outreach to local employers to benefit those students considering a career in Charlottesville.
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