Jeffrey Joerres Quotations

We go up, we bounce back down, but we end up in about the same place.

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

It is clear that demand for their products and services has finally surpassed the capacity and productivity of the current workforce,

London felt the upturn earlier and stronger than all of the others. Hiring in Britain didn't drop as much as it did in the rest of the world through 2003, in financial markets and other industries.

I think it will be very isolated to that area. In talking to customers and talking to companies, it's an immense tragedy, but when they look at their own hiring pattern, they don't see it as having much effect yet.

Those are sizable gains. We're seeing manufacturers, which are a major driver to the economy, feeling a bit better about the sustainability of their demand.

Those are sizable gains, ... We're seeing manufacturers, which are a major driver to the economy, feeling a bit better about the sustainability of their demand.

We've got the spinnaker up, but the sail is sort of flapping at the moment,

When we talk to customers, they are talking about hiring more, they have plans to hire more, ... But they're still being cautious because of the amount of uncertainty surrounding ... interest rates, oil prices and conflicts overseas.

We see much more of a structural shift happening in Germany than we do in any other European country. We've spent a lot of money there.

We will be turning this barren site into a phenomenal building site. This will have a positive impact for Milwaukee.

U.S. employers are still void of the business confidence needed to increase their employment projections for the third quarter, ... Employers have expressed uncertainty in hiring intentions in recent Manpower Employment Outlook Surveys, but this quarter represents the weakest job outlook in 12 years.

Employers are telling us that they are not just looking for bodies to fill sales jobs; they want experienced salespeople who know their respective industries and can drive revenues.

employers are not going to break out of the recent hiring pattern. There will be no sudden explosion in hiring.

there's not a direct relationship where we can say the survey indicates an average of 225,000 new jobs per month. Companies are just looking at their business and saying they need to do more hiring, but in a measured way.

The survey results combined with the drop in the unemployment rate indicate that the traditional labor supply is essentially exhausted.

Compared to the first three months of the year, hiring intentions in Europe are decidedly improved. However, Italy continues to lag behind.

Companies are as optimistic as they have been for the last five quarters over which we've seen job gains. Hiring intentions are holding at a high level.

This indicates that employers are hiring on an as-needed basis, but are still not ready to staff up until demand for their business truly requires it,

There seems to be traction in the labor market, which will make it slightly easier for people to find a job. But we're still in a marketplace where people need to search for a good job.

There seems to be momentum building. The question is whether it's strong enough to carry through to the first and second quarter of 2004.

There's also the practicality that people are needed to do the work, but I'm not sure whether the third quarter gives us the proverbial hockey stick, ... What our guidance would tell you is we're not seeing that as going to happen in the third quarter.

The labor markets in North America have been incredibly stable and, as is so often the case, the Mexican labor market is moving in tandem with its northern neighbor. There is notable optimism amongst employers in the construction sector in both the US and Mexico, where job seekers should find favorable conditions.

German employers are saying they will begin to add employees again, albeit modestly, and hiring activity in Japan should be vigorous, beyond what we normally see in the second quarter -- their peak hiring season. Chinese employers say they will reduce their hiring activity compared to last year at this time, while U.S. employers expect to add to their payrolls at a continued steady pace.

This is all about competition. Everybody has had margins squeezed, everybody has global pressures and as a result they have to be much more efficient, much more exacting.