North Bay Business Journal

In an effort to gauge how the region’s major employers are dealing with continued economic uncertainty, the North Bay Business Journal reached out to major companies with a series of employment-related questions, in addition to identifying the top human resources professional at each organization.

The results, from tech to health care, to hospitality to manufacturing, show that many of the major players are faring better, some even thriving, but challenges nonetheless remain.

NORTH BAY — Employers in Sonoma County are more confident about the prospect of hiring in the second quarter compared to last year, with 13 percent saying they expected to increase staffing levels, according to a quarterly survey by ManpowerGroup, an international staffing firm with a Santa Rosa location. And overall in the North Bay, employers are generally more confident about the economy than they have been, suggesting that a slow but steady economic recovery is wending its way through region, employment experts said.

NORTH BAY — Employment experts in the North Bay say hiring in the fourth quarter of this year will remain relatively stable but still challenging, as an uncertain market and a slow-paced recovery continue to top the concerns of employers, many of which are still relying on a significant amount of temporary workers.

NORTH BAY — Staffing agencies are reporting an uptick in temporary hiring throughout the North Bay, and those temporary jobs are increasingly becoming permanent, echoing a nationwide trend, according to human resources experts in the North Bay.

NORTH BAY — While unemployment rates remain stubbornly high throughout the state and much of the North Bay, certain sectors are seeing an uptick in hiring, a trend that has evoked some cautious optimism particularly for industrial and manufacturing employers.