The Bureau of Labor Statistics won’t be releasing its jobs report for June until July 6th, and we won’t be releasing LinkUp’s forecast until the 3rd or the 4th, but in advance of those reports next week, I thought I’d provide an encouraging data point for the job market. The chart below graphs the number [...]
Cheering for a positive jobs report from the Department of Labor these days is quite similar to cheering for the Minnesota Vikings of late; I’m always hopeful but there just isn’t much in the statistics to get too encouraged about. And unfortunately, the November jobs data published by LinkUp a month ago doesn’t bode well [...]
Last week’s horrendous jobs report, which indicated that the U.S. economy added no jobs in August, was particularly brutal for a number of reasons. First, it was a stark, kick-in-the-gut reminder that we are deep in the midst of what Kenneth Rogoff (Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard) rightly calls the ’2nd Great [...]
The Wall Street Journal ran an article this week highlighting the efforts of the FBI to crack down on ‘Cyber Mules,’ people who knowingly or unknowingly participate in money laundering schemes. Cyber mules, or money mules as they are sometimes called, are recruited through classified ads posted on job boards such as Monster.com and are [...]
Despite the continuing rise in U.S. unemployment and the mixed signals from the August jobs report (good news relative to previous months but still horrendous compared to historic norms), there are a lot of companies with jobs listed on their company websites (still the 2nd best place to find a job behind a personal contact). [...]
As a continuation to yesterday’s post about Indeed, I wanted to highlight in further detail a portion of the interview with Indeed’s CEO, Paul Forster. Later in the same interview, a question was asked by Jason Alba of JibberJobber regarding Indeed’s revenue model. By far the most discerning question of the day, Jason asked, “I [...]
Despite what will undoubtedly be more bad news when the April jobs numbers are released, there are a lot of companies with jobs listed on their company websites (still the 2nd best place to find a job behind a personal contact). Below are the top 100 companies with the most job listings on their company [...]
Starting this month, we will be running a monthly report of the top 50 job titles found on LinkUp during the previous month. The report lists EXACT job titles, so you will see things like Registered Nurse as the top job title for March, with RN (the exact same position) listed as #5. We will [...]
LinkUp’s job listing report for February showed that nearly every single industry tracked by the job search engine experienced a decline in new and total job listings for the month. Similar to the state by state data, 32 of the 37 industries reported a decline in new job listings with all new listings by industry [...]
For the 2nd straight month, LinkUp has reported that more new job listings were in the Banking & Financial Services industry than any other vertical category. For the month, new job listings in the Banking & Financial Services sector rose by 11,380 listings or 24%. This was even larger than the 9,904 new job listings [...]