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Wall Street Added 1,000 Finance Jobs in December

Financial services jobs in New York NY are on the upswing according to a recent report by the New York States Department f Labor.
Wall Street lost more than 30,000 the start of the recession in December 2007, but firms are now looking for experienced executives with active client lists and a book of business, recruiters [...]

JPMorgan Chase to Hire 1,200 in 23 States

MarketWatch: JPMorgan & Chase announced plans Tuesday to hire 1,200 mortgage loan officers as the bank moves to expand its home loan business.
New loan officers will be hired in 23 states, including finance jobs in Chicago, New York, California, Florida and Texas, according to CNNMoney.
Chase weathered the downturn in the housing market better than rival [...]

The New York Yankees Are Good for the Economy

We had all better start rooting for the New York Yankees.
The Yankees aren’t just good for baseball. They’re not just good for New York. The Yankees are good for the economy, wrote Conor Dougherty, on the Wall Street Journal’s “Real Time Economics” blog.
Dougherty, a San Francisco Giants fan and self-proclaimed unbiased source, tracked Gross Domestic [...]

Google Sees Itself as a Leading Economic Indicator And Is Hiring

Google executives are starting to see the signs of an economic recovery and have decided to begin hiring again, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters last week during a companywide sales meeting in New York.
“We’re increasing our investment and hiring rate in anticipation of a recovery,” he told the New York Times’ Steve Lohr.
It was [...]

Nomura Investment Bank to Hire 600 Finance Jobs

Japanese investment bank Nomura said today it plans to double its headcount in the U.S. from 600 to 1,200 employees by March, according to the Financial Times.
Nomura is the Tokyo-based investment bank that purchased the Asian and European assets of Lehman Brothers. The company has already hired 300 U.S. based employees since January, according to [...]

Technology Jobs Down 3.1% in 2009, But Better Than Most Industries

Technology suffered job losses across all industries last year but fared better than most other fields, according to the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
IT lost 224,000 jobs between June 2008 and June 2009, a 3.7  percent decline, while the overall job market was down 5.1 percent for the same period, said the [...]

ITT Relocation Packages Lure Hires to “Less-Glamorous Locations”

High-tech engineering and manufacturer ITT’s Defense Electronics and Services is offering new hires “generous relocation packages” to move to “less glamorous locations,” like Omaha, Neb., and Huntsville. Ala., reports BNET.
ITT, based in White Plains, N.Y., has more than 40,000 employees and has been hiring steadily in 2009, since its security and defense business was awarded [...]

Unemployment Rate Passes 12 Percent in 5 States

It’s not only the big states that have been hit hard by the economy, says recent government data released on Friday. Several smaller states including Rhode Island, Nevada and Oregon are now experiencing what states like California and Michigan have suffered since 2008: high rates of unemployment. Unemployment topped 12 percent in all five states [...]

Compliance isn’t Recession-Proof, it’s Recession-Busting

Whether you’re going into business or going out of business or it’s just business as usual, you need an accountant. The profession is proving extremely recession proof, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and a report Friday on Forbes.com.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the number of jobs for accountants and auditors will [...]