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). [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Surprisingly (or maybe not considering the TARP money pouring into the banks), one of the few bright spots in the labor market in December was the Banking & Financial Services industry, at least according to figures released yesterday by LinkUp.com. For the month, new job listings in the Banking & Financial Services sector rose by [...]
According to the the Labor Department’s November jobs report that was released this morning, the U.S. lost 533,000 non-farm jobs last month. The monthly losses, now numbering 11 in a row, were the largest since 1974. Unemployment, which rose .2% to 6.7%, now stands at its highest level in 15 years. The report deals another [...]
In addition to providing a snapshot of the labor market by state, we are also able to analyze the data by industry. Not every job fits easily into one of the categories, so the table below lists fewer jobs than the data by state, but the picture is just as grim. (LinkUp publishes job openings [...]
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. [...]
Last Friday, KillerStartups.com featured LinkUp in its daily poll (the site asks readers to vote on which of the selected startups will become the next ‘killer’ site on the web). The results made the Obama landslide look more like a razor-thin, legally-mandated-recount Minnesota Senate race with LinkUp annihilating the rest of the field.
Thanks to everyone [...]
The August issue of PC Magazine included a nice blurb on LinkUp.com in their ‘Best of the Internet’ section. Below is the brief summary written by Jared Preusz (I know it’s small, but it’s in PC Magazine!).
LinkUp – “A new site that exposes the hidden job market by finding and aggregating jobs listed only on [...]