The Detroit News reports today Firms offering fewer temp jobs.
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While demand has waned for clerks and other low-skilled workers, experts say opportunity abounds for those with specialized skills in fast-growing fields like health care, engineering and information technology.
Accountemps, a staffing firm that focuses on the financial sector, reported an increase in hiring in southeast [...]

Here’s a blogger I just discovered: Lisa at Mittenmusings. She’s working in temporary jobs in southeast Michigan. Most recent post: Workplace characters.
Check out her e-mail for a clue of where she’s from: “a2.”
Waving at you, Lisa, from Monroe!

Mrs. Micah: Finance for a Freelance Life has this post 7 tips for using a placement agency or temporary agency to find work.
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The hiring company probably wants to make sure it only pays what it has to. For example, when I was hired last summer it was on a temp-to-hire basis. After about 2 [...]

The Toledo Blade has this report today: Toledo-area staffing firms struggling to find positions for clients.
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Local agencies blame the area’s poor economy. Complicating the situation, they say: Job-seekers often have limited educations.
“When you hit a recession, the first people laid off are staffing people,” said Bruce Rumpf, owner of Job 1 USA, a Toledo [...]

USA Today has this story today: Slow economic times mean pay cuts for many workers.
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Nor do the unemployment figures include people, such as most sales clerks, whose hours have been cut because consumer spending is down. Or the small-business owners whose sales have plummeted. Though they’ve not suffered as much as workers who have [...]

Every now and then, someone asks me “Why do you stay in Michigan?”
The answer is: If my husband and I hadn’t moved to southeast Michigan a few years ago, we would have stayed in northwest Ohio where most of our family lives.
While Toledo is a commute-able distance from Monroe, and we do drive back and [...]