Denver-area headhunters say business is picking up significantly, and that job-changing is likely to rise even more in the second half of 2010.“Things are getting better,” said Martin Pocs, vice chairman of DHR International in Denver. “Certainly our business has picked up. Some of it, I think, is pent-up demand.”
“We’re seeing growth across our divisions, both on the permanent-placement side and on the temp and temp-to-hire side,” said Libby Felchle, an Englewood-based division director for Robert Half International’s OfficeTeam unit, which places temporary and temp-to-hire administrative staff. “I think companies are starting to grow, and business is changing, so they’re slowly rebuilding their teams.”
This year, Colorado’s overall job creation has been less than stellar. Colorado gained a total of 2,200 jobs during the first five months of the year, while the state’s unemployment rate remained at 8 percent in May — down slightly from 8.2 percent in May 2009, but well above the 3.6 percent rate recorded in May 2007, about six months before the recession began.
“Twenty-two hundred jobs in an economy of 2.2 million to 2.3 million — that’s not many jobs,” said Ernie Goss, professor of economics at Creighton University and director of the Denver-based Goss Institute for Economic Research. “Colorado is still well off the number of workers that were employed before the recession. But things are looking better; things are trending upward.”
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