Small business leading job market back

I believe that 2012 is going to be a great year. I believe that a lot of situations are going to turn around. If you pay close attention, you would already be noticing it. It is not going to look like it did before, so we should stop looking for it to be that way. But we should know, that the sun is coming out and in the distance I see a rainbow.

Small businesses are in a hiring sort of mood.

Take Tammy Krings, owner of the Travel Solutions agency based in Columbus, Ohio. She is about to boost her staff of 125 by 65 more people because larger companies are chasing higher growth markets outside the United States.

“Where they’ve consolidated their travel in the U.S. or North America, they’re now saying we want to look for opportunities in these other markets,” Krings said.

As the job market slowly gets back on track, much of that hiring is coming from small businesses that have weathered the storm of the past four years. Job openings and hiring plans in December hit the second-highest levels since the recession of 2007, according to a December survey of the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

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