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Online Job Postings Hit 2-Year Low

The Conference Board released its online job listings report for December earlier today which showed that online job postings dropped by 507,000 openings to 3.86 million in December, the lowest level since July, 2006. The Conference Board’s 12% decline is slightly less than the 16% decline reported by LinkUp.com earlier this week, but regardless of [...]

Online Job Ads Drop In July

For the 5th straight month, job openings posted online dropped in July according to the Conference Board. The number of online postings (3.86 million vacancies) was 5.4% below July of last year. I am not sure how the Conference Board generates and measures the data, but I have to imagine that it is imperfect at [...]