What’s up (down) with the job market

I keep hearing that the leading indicators are up, but still poor employment numbers keep coming in. The stock market stumbled a bit last week, and I’m not sure if it’s buying opportunity, or a signal that it’s time to move to the sidelines for a month or so.

I’ve seen a twitter post or two from very accomplished developers indicating that their contracts are expiring. I’m sure that the job market is soft in areas and fine in others. I wonder if sites like job philadelphia and careerbuilder are seeing this softness regionally or nationally?

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