The market review, entitled “Cloud Computing’s Role in Job Creation,” forecasts 13.8 million new jobs from public and private cloud IT services worldwide by 2015 – with half of those expected this year – and cloud revenue reaching $1.1 trillion over that same time period. Of those anticipated hires by 2015, IDC expects more than half (7.5 million) to come from enterprises with 500 or fewer employees. Prevailing thinking from the research firm is that SMBs have fewer ties to legacy systems and more limitations with IT budgets compared with their larger competitors, leading to a pool of indirect IT job growth. Read more

The number of U.S. information technology jobs increased by 23,000 in February to an all-time high of more than 4.1 million jobs, according to a monthly index of IT jobs developed by the TechServe Alliance. January’s record surpasses the previous high set in September 2008 when IT employment reached 4,088,600.

On an annual basis, IT jobs were up 2.5 percent in 2011, compared with a growth rate of 1.5 percent in 2010. These latest numbers are based on re-benchmarked data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this month. Learn more

The U.S. producer price index for employment services edged up in February to a reading of 125.8 from 125.4 in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The index also rose 0.2 percent from February 2011.

Employment services is just one industry tracked in the producer price indexes. Producer price indexes measure changes in price over time from the perspective of the seller. Data for producer price indexes come from a sample of selling prices as reported by companies. Read more

Mitchell Martin Inc. announced [today] that it has been named to Inavero’s 2012 Best of Staffing™ Talent list. Best of Staffing, presented in partnership with CareerBuilder, is the nation’s first award that recognizes staffing firms that receive remarkable reviews from the people they find jobs (employed talent). Fewer than 1% of North American staffing firms have been named to the 2012 Best of Staffing Talent List.

“Our mission is to become a Talent Gateway for top industry resources”,   Mitchell Martin Inc.’s President and CEO, Gene Holtzman said. “Providing an exceptional customer-service experience to our staff is one of the many ways that we plan to achieve this mission.  We are proud and honored to be recognized for our efforts in this way.”

Staffing firms competing to make the Best of Staffing list underwent a rigorous survey process followed by careful analysis of responses to determine satisfaction levels. Mitchell Martin Inc. received satisfaction ratings of 9 or 10 out of 10 from 63.6% percent of their talent, significantly higher than the industry’s average of 50 percent. Best of Staffing participants secured a place on the list by earning an average Net Promoter ScoreÒ that was nearly double the national staffing industry benchmark for talent who had been placed in a job.

“The staffing industry continues to play a key role in helping to revitalize the economy,” said Eric Gregg, Inavero’s Founder and CEO.  “Staffing firms give growth-minded organizations a more flexible alternative to recruiting their own employees, letting both the employee and employer determine if the fit is right for a more permanent position.  Both sides receive tremendous value in a flexible, yet meaningful working relationship, and as they engage with staffing firms to help achieve those goals, the service experience they have is very important to their success. The Best of Staffing lists are a resource for businesses and talent who are trying to find staffing firms that provide exceptional service.”

Inavero’s complete Best of Staffing list can be viewed at www.bestofstaffing.com. For more information about Inavero, visit www.inavero.com.

U.S. staffing companies employed an average of 2.8 million temporary and contract workers per day in 2011, up 8.0 percent from 2010, according to data released by the American Staffing Association.

In 2011, U.S. staffing firms hired 12.9 million temporary and contract employees over the course of the year.

“As the economy continued to slowly improve, staffing and recruiting companies played an important role in putting America back to work in 2011, helping close to 13 million people find temporary, contract or permanent jobs,” said ASA President and CEO Richard Wahlquist.  Read full story

Seventy-six percent of information technology leaders expect mobile trends will have a high to extremely high impact on their organization, according to TEKsystems’ quarterly IT executive outlook survey. More than 50 percent of IT leaders also expect cloud computing (58 percent), consumerization of IT (53 percent) and social media (52 percent) will have large impacts on organizations this year. Learn more

U.S. private-sector employment rose by 216,000 in February, seasonally adjusted, according to the national employment report released today by Automatic Data Processing Inc. (NASD: ADP). Meanwhile, January’s employment growth was revised upward to 173,000, from the initially reported 170,000.

The service-providing sector added 170,000 jobs in February, while employment in the goods-producing sector rose by 46,000. Read more

Mobile technology especially the apps that go hand-in-hand with portable devices, is fueling tech hiring this year, as companies scramble to build out their mobile capability.

Just over half (54 percent) of IT leaders surveyed for the quarterlyTEKsystems’ Executive Outlook Survey will implement some mobile initiative during the year, with more healthcare leaders (76 percent) planning projects than those in any other sector. Mobile apps are among the leading projects, according to CIOs polled by Robert Half Technology. Twenty-two percent of them say they’ll be developing a mobile application for their company before the end of the year. Read more

After two years of looking internally to fill vacancies, companies in 2011 again began to hire new workers, relying on referrals and job boards for nearly 50 percent of their external hires.

Social media, though it accounted for only 3.5 percent of those external hires, evidences a much greater impact on hiring than the numbers would suggest, influencing candidates whose hiring ends up being attributed to other sources. Read more

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