Hiring is picking up in many segments of the country and while most people are seeking full-time, permanent jobs many are settling for temporary employment.
This type of employment reportedly increased to 2.3 million in March after hitting 1.7 million in the middle of 2009, according to the Labor Department data.
Neil Alexander, who works at labor law firm Littler Mendelson, told MarketWatch that the labor market is shifting.
"We have large clients that have laid off hundreds, thousands of employees. They are now using a large chunk of temp workers, managing their labor needs in real time. It's cost containment," he said. "This is the new face of labor."
While temporary work may not be what many people are looking for, it is still better than noting and may be an important stepping stone on one's path to enlightenment.
Barry Asin, the president of Staffing Industry Analysts, a consulting firm, said that temporary workers are now being used in many more sectors.
"This sort of labor used to be more about office work and industrial work, but more and more of what's getting done is in professional skills, information technology, finance, accounting, healthcare," he told the news source.
