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Winter Is Coming, But LinkUp Predicts Strong Job Growth This Spring

Scene: Somewhere in the Riverlands, south of The Twins. Tywin Lannister: “When the battle commences, you and your wildlings will be in the vanguard.” Tyrion Lannister: “The vanguard? Me and the tribesman, on the front lines?” After a brief recounting of the savagery of the Stone Crows and the Moon Brothers the night prior, Tyrion [...]

December Jobs Report Will Be Far Better Than Expected; Strong Employment Gains Should Continue Through Q1 2013

Despite mixed to horrible marks for the quality of the bill as a solid solution to the nation’s long-term revenue and expense woes (one former budget official from the Clinton administration speaking earlier today on Bloomberg Radio gave it a D-), last night’s passage of HR 8 – The Tax Relief Extension Act – has [...]

Top 50 Job Openings on LinkUp In February

Below is the list of the top 50 job openings on LinkUp’s job search engine in February. LinkUp is the only job search engine on the web that indexes only jobs found on corporate websites throughout the U.S. Updated daily, LinkUp’s job search engine contains 860,000 job openings indexed from 22,000 company websites. Because LinkUp does not include any [...]

LinkUp Jobs Report For February Is As Clear As Mud

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 [...]

LinkUp’s March Jobs Report Positive, But Not As Good As Government’s Numbers

The March jobs report was released by the Department of Labor (DoL) a few weeks ago, and the news was quite positive. For just the 3rd month since the recession began, DoL reported that the U.S. economy added jobs in March. While the 162,000 jobs gained were less than the 185,000 or so that economists [...]

LinkUp’s February Jobs Report Shows Modest Gains In Job Listings On Corporate Websites

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 [...]