CareerBuilder’s Midyear Job Forecast Shows Increase in Hiring for Remainder of 2014

 CareerBuilder’s Midyear Job Forecast suggests sustained job growth for the second half of 2014. Nearly half of U.S. employers plan to add full-time, permanent headcount over the next six months, and one-third plan to hire temporary or contract workers, both improvements over the same period in 2013.

Survey results showed:

• 47 percent of employers plan to hire full-time, permanent employees, up from 44 percent last year

• 27 percent plan to hire part-time employees, up from 25 percent last year

• 33 percent plan to hire temporary or contract workers, up from 31 percent last year

Industries expected to outperform the national average for permanent hiring during the rest of 2014 include:

• Information Technology – 59 percent plan to hire full-time, permanent employees, up from 51 percent last year

• Financial Services – 57 percent plan to hire full-time, permanent employees, up from 52 percent last year

• Hospitality – 55 percent plan to hire full-time, permanent employees, up from 46 percent last year

• Health Care – 54 percent plan to hire full-time, permanent employees, up from 51 percent last year

• Manufacturing – 54 percent plan to hire full-time, permanent employees, up from 52 percent last year

The types of roles companies will most likely create over the next six months include:

• Jobs tied to social media – 11 percent

• Jobs tied to mobile technology – 11 percent

• Jobs tied to cloud technology – 10 percent

• Jobs tied to wellness – 10 percent

• Jobs tied to content strategy for the Web – 9 percent

• Jobs tied to managing and interpreting big data – 9 percent

• Jobs tied to cyber security – 8 percent

• Jobs tied to financial regulation – 8 percent

• Jobs tied to search technology – 8 percent

• Jobs tied to health informatics – 8 percent