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 [...]
In addition to reporting the volume of job listings by state and by industry each month on LinkUp.com, we’ve also started looking at the top 75 job titles from our job search engine. Below are the top 75 job titles found on LinkUp in April. (The list is EXACT job titles so there may be [...]
In contrast to yesterday’s mixed signals on a state by state basis, there was no mistaking the message from LinkUp’s April jobs report on an industry by industry basis: it was all grim. Not a single industry showed an increase in new job listings in April, and the average decline in new job listings for [...]
Well before the monthly jobs report from the Department of Labor, LinkUp released its job listing data for April and noted that the report provided some mixed signals. New Job listings dropped 20% from March to 497,245 – the worst monthly percentage drop since LinkUp started tracking the data early last year. On the other [...]
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 [...]
Not surprisingly, very few industries showed job growth in March. In fact, only 5 of 37 industries reported an increase in the number of new job listings, and only 2 of 37 showed an increase in total job listings.In total, new job listings declined by almost 110,000 postings, and total job listings by well over [...]
A day ahead of Friday’s jobs report from the Department of Labor, LinkUp reports that total job listings from over 16,000 company web sites around the U.S. plummeted again in March, dropping 19% from February. New jobs posted to company web sites dropped slightly less, declining 18% from February. The total number of job listings [...]
In story after story about the current economic meltdown over the past 5 months (or 12 depending on your point of view), the media and the country as a whole are taking great solace in the belief that the current unemployment rate of 8.1% (as of the end of February) means we’re not even close [...]
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 [...]
LinkUp reported this week that total job listings from over 14,000 company web sites around the U.S. plummeted in February, dropping 13% from January. New jobs posted to company web sites dropped even further, declining 15% from January. The total number of job listings dropped by more than 127,000, while new jobs posted to those [...]