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Top 100 Companies With Job Listings On LinkUp

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). [...]

Indeed’s Business Model

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 [...]

Top 100 Companies With Job Listings On LinkUp in April

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 [...]

Top 50 Job Titles Found On LinkUp In March

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 [...]

Nearly All Industries Show Decline in Job Listings In February

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 [...]

Banking & Finance Sector Shows Largest Job Gains For 2nd Straight Month

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 [...]

Rate of Job Losses in U.S. Starting to Slow

Somewhat surprisingly, LinkUp’s January jobs report shows that the worst may be over for the U.S. job market. While the month did show further declines in the number of jobs available in the U.S., the rate of decline is lower than it has been in recent months. New jobs posted to company websites dropped 1%, [...]