The rest were dominated by federal jobs, many of them temporary positions associated with the census.
But Ms. Denham said her analysis showed that most of that growth came in temporary positions.
Most of March's job gains were temporary positions with the Census Bureau or in the private sector.
Ms. Francois said she received responses to only 25 percent of her applications, and most were only for temporary positions.
Although I have had couple of temporary positions, I have not had a full-time marketing position since March 2008 despite an aggressive search effort.
A good chunk of the new jobs in March -- about 117,000 -- were temporary positions created by the Census Bureau as it set out to count the population.
The clerical workers' local is likely to gain jurisdiction over many temporary positions as well as workers who, it says, were misclassified as managers.
The number of temporary workers to be hired this year is down on last year, when it advertised for 21,000 temporary positions.
Many of those who lost their jobs were younger people in precarious "temporary" positions that were the product of a decade-long deregulation.
He once promised that clerics would hold only temporary positions in government and then allowed them to hold the most senior positions.
Many are either in service industries that pay low wages, such as personal care and hospitality, or they are temporary positions.
