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Your odds of finding a job are better in Tampa than Fort Myers this summer.
From July to September, 21% of the companies in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area say they plan to hire additional staff, according to the most recent Manpower Employment Outlook Survey. By contrast, 13% of companies in the Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice area and 9% of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers companies plan to add staff.
The further south you travel from Tampa, the worse the employment outlook becomes. For example, 15% of companies in the Cape Coral-Fort Myers plan to decrease staffing levels in the next three months, outnumbering the 9% of companies that plan to hire.
Still, every area is showing improvement in the third quarter compared with the same quarter in 2009. In Fort Myers, for example, 22% of firms planned to cut staff at this time last year. In the Tampa Bay area in the third quarter of 2009, 14% of firms planned to fire and 11% to hire. Today, 21% plan to hire and 11% plan to fire.
Manpower recently dropped smaller areas from its survey, including the Naples-Marco Island area.
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