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 [...]
I’m not typically one who looks for or pays attention to signs from the cosmos, but it was a truly bizarre coincidence that as I was assembling the output from our jobs forecasting model and started to get a sense of what the picture looked like, Cat Stevens’ Trouble began playing on KEXP’s stream. (Seriously [...]
For the 2nd consecutive month, LinkUp is reporting that both new and total job listings indexed from company websites rose from the prior month. In September, new job listings increased from August by 19,095 (5%), while total job listings rose by 36,388 (4%). LinkUp is the largest, fastest growing job search engine that only indexes [...]
Last weeks’ jobs report was certainly a mixed bag with a bit of something for both the optimists and the pessimists. Unemployment dropped from 10% to 9.7%, but that was due more to the quirky statistical factors and the error-prone math and flawed inputs than anything else. The economy reportedly lost 20,000 non-farm jobs in [...]
As we anticipated, the jobs report released this morning by the Department of Labor was far worse than the consensus estimates. According to the DOL report, U.S. employers shed 85,000 jobs in December yet most economists expected to see a net increase in jobs. As the New York Times indicated: The United States economy lost [...]
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 [...]
Continuing last Monday’s post about the October’s jobs report (in which new job postings on LinkUp rose by 4% from September), there is also positive news on an industry by industry basis. In October, 23 of 36 industries showed an increase from September in new job listings on LinkUp, while 21 showed an increase in [...]
Continuing last Friday’s post about LinkUp’s dour jobs report for September (in which 47 states reported a decrease from August in the total number of job listings), there is equally as discouraging news on an industry by industry basis. In September, 29 of 36 industries showed a decrease from August in both new and total [...]
Continuing yesterday’s post about LinkUp’s encouraging jobs data for August (in which 49 states reported an increase from July in the total number of job listings), there is equally encouraging news on an industry by industry basis. In August, 35 of 37 industries showed an increase from July in the total number of job listings [...]
Consistent with LinkUp state by state job listing report for May released yesterday, the job search engine’s report of new and total job listings by industry for May provides further proof that the job market is showing signs of life. While new job listings on LinkUp fell 8% to 425,783, the decline was a massive [...]