The Diggings blog will now be located on LinkUp’s blog - HERE. Once you’re there, you’ll find our jobs forecast for March entitled – “LinkUp Remains Cautiously Optimistic About Friday’s Jobs Report; New Job Listings In Construction Rose 187% In March.” In addition to our monthly jobs forecasts, labor market data, and incredibly insightful analysis, the [...]
On Friday, November 2nd, the Department of Labor will issue its jobs report for October, and It will be one of the strongest reports since the 1st quarter. Unfortunately, it just might be too late to do anything to help President Obama’s case that he has turned around the nation’s employment situation. Based on LinkUp’s [...]
Similar to the brutal and seemingly endless drought ravaging most of the country this Summer, particularly the central U.S., the bad news around the nation’s ability to generate any meaningful job growth will simply not let up. In Q1, the U.S. averaged monthly job gains of 225,000. In Q2, the average monthly job gain dropped [...]
I don’t expect to get any credit for issuing an accurate forecast after the fact, but we predict that today’s job report, issued roughly 9 hours ago at 8:30 EST this morning, was worse than expected. As is the case a few times each year, the BLS report came out the morning after the last [...]
Despite the scare that ADP gave everyone this week, tomorrow’s jobs report from the BLS will be far better than the anemic consensus estimates for job growth in April. Economists are predicting that only 165,000 jobs were created in April in the U.S., but based on LinkUp’s jobs numbers in March, we are forecasting that [...]
There were a number of interesting aspects of today’s jobs report from the Department of Labor related to each of the following: 1) LinkUp’s forecasting model 2) Flaws in the government’s numbers 3) The state of the jobs picture in the U.S. In reverse order, I’ll start with today’s report. The Employment Situation Report issued [...]
February’s jobs report from the Department of Labor is scheduled to be released later this week and based on data released this morning by LinkUp, Friday’s report will show that the job market was essentially flat in February, making only modest gains in job growth. LinkUp, a job search engine that indexes jobs from over [...]
Everyone at NBC has completely lost their minds. The ridiculous episode with Conan O’Brien (by far the funniest and most entertaining person to ever appear on late-night TV) is exhibit BB in the ongoing saga that is the largely self-inflicted demise of traditional media.
Continuing last Friday’s post about November’s stunningly positive jobs report (in which new job postings on LinkUp rose by 9% from October and 35 states reported an increase in the total number of jobs listed on corporate websites), there is also positive news on an industry by industry basis. In November, 22 of 36 industries [...]
Much like the Lego Obama inauguration, Christoph Niemann combines two of my favorite things in rendering aspects of the New York City experience in Lego form. Absolutely brilliant. (Thanks Mo for the link). A few of my favorites… And having at least a portion of our business centered around freely distributed weekly jobs newspapers, I [...]