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 [...]
There is no question that the gloom surrounding the U.S. economy in general and job growth in particular is well founded. Economists have recently slashed their GDP forecasts for the remainder of the year with the specter of a double-dip recession rearing its ugly head once again, and all signs point to persistently high unemployment [...]
Press Release LINKUP WINS ABOUT.COM’S 2011 READERS’ CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST JOB SEARCH ENGINE NEW YORK, March 15, 2011 – LinkUp today announced that it has been selected as the About.com 2011 Readers’ Choice Award for best job search engine. Now in its fourth year, the About.com Readers’ Choice Awards honor the best products, features [...]
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 [...]
As a follow-up to yesterday’s jobs report for January from LinkUp, I wanted to highlight a little further what is happening on a state by state basis in terms of the growth in new job listings on company websites. Not only did new job postings on corporate websites rise 16% in January, from 433,000 in [...]
After a disappointing jobs report in December, pressure is mounting for a positive report this Friday when the Department of Labor releases their jobs numbers for January. All indicators are pointing to a positive report for the month. ADP estimates that the U.S. gained 187,000 jobs, Intuit is reporting that small businesses added 70,000 jobs, [...]
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 [...]
With the disappointing jobs report released earlier today, there is no doubt that my prediction for a far more positive report than most expected was off the mark. According to the Department of Labor numbers, job growth in July was positive but anemic, and far below consensus estimates. Following the weak BLS report, politicians, economists, [...]