Hiring might pick up next year:
“A labor shortage is being masked by the recession. When things pick up, you will see expansions of staffs, and people who are ready to move will make a move,” says Joe Grimm, a recruiting executive for the Detroit Free Press and other Knight-Ridder Inc. papers. “A lot of the turnover we should have had in 2002 and 2003 will really slam us in 2004 and 2005.”