As has been the case seemingly forever, trying to attain some visibility into the nation’s employment situation these days is like trying to take a picture with the new iPhone 5. While that exercise can be marred by a funny purple haze, the view of the labor market at the moment is marred by a thick [...]
Last Wednesday, LinkUp issued its 60-day jobs forecast based on data from its national job search engine. Our forecast for August and September is based on the number of new and total job listings indexed from over 22,000 corporate websites throughout the U.S. in June and July. The increase and decrease in these job openings [...]
For certain, some of the impact is lost in releasing a jobs report after the Department of Labor has released their monthly data, but such is the case when the first Friday of the month is also the 1st of the month. (I’m not sure why the Conference Board would or could or should release [...]
The polls have closed on About.com’s Reader’s Choice Awards, and the winners will not be announced until next week, but in advance of final certification and the official announcement, LinkUp received the most votes as the best job search engine, beating Google, Indeed, and Simplyhired. As a result of the voting, I couldn’t help but [...]
The February jobs report comes out tomorrow, and hopes are high that the numbers will finally show that the U.S. economy is truly and firmly in recovery mode. As Ben Bernanke said recently in his semiannual testimony on Capitol Hill, the recovery that seems to be occurring in virtually every economic and financial metric except [...]
The talk all week about the Superbowl commercials leads me to wonder what percentage of the record audience actually tuned in to watch the game itself. It was, in case people might have overlooked it, a great football game and I hate to admit, as a Minnesotan, that I was cheering hard for the Packers [...]
I’m not sure that anyone’s noticed, but it’s been a few months since we’ve published our monthly jobs report, and my blogging in general has dropped precipitously of late. One of my goals for 2011 is to begin blogging again and I’m starting with a much delayed jobs report from LinkUp for November and December [...]
Given the slew of grim data released this week, it’s no wonder that the markets have reacted poorly. ADP reported that employers added only 13,000 people to their payrolls in June, far lower than the 60,000 economists were expecting. Earlier today, the Department of Labor reported that Initial Claims for Unemployment in the week ending [...]
It’s been some time since I’ve written about the decline of the daily newspaper given that it’s about as compelling a story as the White Sox languishing in 3rd place in the A.L. Central and fading fast as the All-Star break approaches. But I cannot resist at least commenting on the latest news concerning the [...]
LinkUp received a nice mention on CBS News last week. LinkUp, one of the fastest growing job search engines on the web, indexes jobs that are only found on company websites. We do not aggregate jobs from other job boards and we do not allow anyone to post jobs directly to the site. As a [...]