Susan Moore lost a good job last year, then found herself emotionally drained by an ensuing eight-month search.

After losing thousands of jobs during the recession, Maine’s employment market appears to have stabilized in 2010 and the economy is poised to add jobs this year, according to new state data and predictions by economists.

“After the big downward spiral, we have established a bottom, but we haven’t started to go up significantly,” said Glenn Mills, director of economic research for the Maine Department of Labor’s Center for Workforce Research and Information.