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Well, well. Not that we&#39;re in the business of shameless flattery, but it would seem that Vault&#39;s readership is a particularly &lt;strike&gt;good-looking&lt;/strike&gt; well- informed group of people with its finger firmly on the pulse of modern society. Last month your opinion of the hiring market correctly foreshadowed the announcement of November&#39;s upswing in hiring. And just last week, we started running a poll on our homepage asking you to vote for the person who has had the most influence on the business climate in 2009. &lt;p&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt; As you can see from the results, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was the clear winner, amassing almost half of all the votes cast. So why is this a reason for Vault readers to once again be patting themselves on the back? Why, that&#39;s as simple as guessing which economic boffin &lt;i&gt;TIME&lt;/i&gt; named as their Person of the Year 2009. (And, while you&#39;re at it, why not compare the people Wall Street Journal readers consider to be 2009&#39;s most influential newsmakers. Hint: Bernanke doesn&#39;t make the list, but &lt;i&gt;Brett Favre&lt;/i&gt; does.) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Given this recent run of poll-savvy form, the results of another poll we&#39;ve been running of late give rise to some optimism for next year: our survey of hiring sentiment for 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;img class=&quot; embeddedobject&quot; src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/pstott/folders/Jing/media/4ca46f0f-2e67-4645-8f89-d9cd87a6f501/00000045.png&quot; width=&quot;449&quot; height=&quot;195&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;2010 unemployment poll; poll homepage&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt; As you can see, fully 70 percent of respondents are of the opinion that things at least aren&#39;t going to get any worse in the hiring market next year, with a majority of those—47 percent of the total sample—convinced that the next 12 months will see the unemployment figure once again settling into single digits. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; If there was ever a poll where I wanted Vault&#39;s readers to be right, it&#39;s that one. Hopefully the winning streak will continue well into next year. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;--Posted by Phil Stott, Vault.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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