Management jobs in Illinois are growing at a healthy pace.

Managerial recruitment activity showed a gain of 9.4 points in August, following a downward slide over the past three months, according to the new CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index. The August 2011 Index, which measures managerial hiring activity online, has risen to 107.6, a mere 5.3 points higher than it was a year ago in August 2010.
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With the addition of a new hire, a company has secured a key hire for Illinois executive jobs.

In conjunction with the recent opening of AgileThought, Inc.’s new downtown Chicago office in May, the national provider of custom software solutions for Fortune 500 companies announced Timothy Monson has been hired for the newly created position of Managing Director-Midwest. He will lead the expansion of client service initiatives and create strategies to cultivate new partnerships in the region. Before joining AgileThought, Monson previously held positions in Chicago as Chief Technology Officer for Navigant Consulting, Director of Global IT Operations for BearingPoint, Inc., and Global Director of Data Center and End-User Device Technology Operations for Arthur Andersen. (more…)

According to a new survey, employers at Illinois jobs and other jobs around the nation value emotional intelligence over IQ.

The survey from CareerBuilder revolves around Emotional Intelligence (EI), a general assessment of a person’s abilities to control emotions, to sense, understand and react to others’ emotions, and manage relationships. The national survey –conducted May 19 to June 8, 2011, with more than 2600 hiring managers and human resource professionals – reveals that EI is a critical characteristic for landing a job and advancing one’s career.
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New research shows that HR jobs in Illinois, specifically Chicago recruiting jobs, are on the rise.

Over the past 90 days, more than 14,000 new jobs were advertised online for Recruiters, according to WANTED Analytics™ (www.wantedanalytics.com), the leading source of real-time business intelligence for the talent marketplace. Despite rising unemployment, hiring demand has steadily increased by 20% from the same 90-day period in 2010 and by more than 130% from 2009.
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The Tribune’s latest layoffs are affecting Illinois jobs in various industries, including administrative and finance areas.

The Chicago Tribune is reportedly trimming Chicago administrative jobs, according to multiple reports.

In addition, the AP reports that the top executive at the Chicago Tribune will oversee six other Tribune Co. daily newspapers as part of a reorganization that will eliminate an unspecified number of jobs.

Chicago Tribune Publisher Tony Hunter responsibility for all Tribune Co. newspapers except the Los Angeles Times. The other newspapers reporting to Hunter are the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, The Sun of Baltimore, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., and Daily Press of Newport News, Va.

It’s not yet clear if writing jobs in Connecticut will also be affected.

Now much of the Tribune Co.-owned Hartford Courant will be made in Chicago.

According to the Tribune, Gannett, Media General and Tribune Co. are among the larger companies ramping up centralized editing, which is hailed by some as a necessary evolution and decried by others as weakening local journalism.