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No Increase In New Job Listings For Any Industry In April

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 [...]

LinkUp Data Contradicts October Jobs Report

Even worse than expected, today’s jobs report from the Department of Labor was dismal, with the U.S. economy shedding 240,000 jobs in October. This was the 10th straight monthly decline, and the nation’s unemployment rate now stands at 6.5%, a 14 year high. So far this year, 1.2 million jobs have been lost, with more [...]

September Job Growth On LinkUp Spans Almost Every Vertical

As reported last week, September’s results for LinkUp.com run highly contrary to the dismal job market indicated by the recent data from the Department of Labor. LinkUp, which aggregates and publishes only jobs pulled directly from company web sites, showed a substantial gain in both new and total jobs listed. Despite the fact that the [...]