Most Companies Don’t Plan to Hire in 2012

While the economy is slowly recovering, the employment picture isn’t likely to improve in 2012, according to surveys conducted by job search company CareerBuilder.

A man looking for work holds a sign in Midtown Manhattan on Nov 15. Two dominant trends in today’s job market is a lack of skilled workers, and that many firms are making do by offering more training for their employees. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Tiimes

NEW YORK—While the economy is slowly recovering, the employment picture isn’t likely to improve in 2012, according to surveys conducted by job search company CareerBuilder.

In a survey of more than 3,000 hiring managers and HR firms, 23 percent said that they plan to add full-time staff next year, which is slightly below the 24 percent who expressed the same sentiment last year. Seven percent said that they expect to trim staff, which remains the same as last year.

The rest of the firms say that they either do not know how they would proceed or intend to remain with the same headcount.