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 [...]
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 [...]
After fixing two significant problems with our data (normalizing the data to account for a constantly growing database of companies and not counting duplicate jobs that companies re-post to their corporate web site every day with new URLs), we have finally generated an accurate, insightful report that provides a completely unique snapshot of the U.S. [...]
The October jobs report is scheduled to be released tomorrow morning, but if the data generated from LinkUp.com is any indicator, the numbers may not be as bad as economists predict. LinkUp aggregates and publishes job listings directly from company web sites themselves. The September and October jobs data includes job listings from 9,753 companies [...]
Flying in the face of the U.S. Department of Labor September jobs data which showed a loss of 159,000 non-farm jobs during the month, LinkUp’s job data for September presents a far more positive outlook on the U.S. employment numbers. In fact, 45 states in the U.S. showed an increase in new jobs between August [...]