Economy

In this time of almost “full employment” we are seeing bonuses relied on more heavily as a recruiting tool. In fact, companies are putting the word “Bonus” right in job titles to grab candidates’ attention. In the LinkUp database, we’ve …

As we wrote last month in discussing LinkUp’s Job Duration metric, as the job market has reached epic levels of over-heatedness, companies have taken to extreme measures to fill positions as quickly as possible, often offering jobs to minimally qualified applicants …

Coming back from the long Thanksgiving weekend to start a full week of work can be difficult. Ramping up energy levels and feeling productive after the turkey coma is challenging, but you have to remember to be grateful for gainful …

Each quarter LinkUp publishes a Job Market Diversification Report, assessing the diversity of job listings across 150 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) in the U.S. by occupation, company, and industry. The report provides insights into job market health, employment trends, economic strength, …

President Trump is eager to promote the strength of jobs numbers under his command, but how is job growth really playing out? With the 2018 election imminent, we explored the relationship between job growth and voter preference. We calculated the change …

As we indicated on Monday, we wanted to wait until the 1st of the month to issue our non-farm payroll forecast for tomorrow’s jobs report so that we could look at October’s job data from our job search engine. Because …

It was 8 years ago this month that began the longest streak of consecutive months in which the U.S. economy reported a net gain in jobs. But within that stretch of 96 months, there were dozens and dozens of sub-stories …

Since the U.S. recovery began in 2009, total employment has risen from 138 million to 155.6 million and the number of unemployed has shrunk to 6.6 million. Strong economic conditions have put millions of people back to work, and economists agree that the US …

Each month we examine our job market data and find trends worth sharing. Here are the latest highlights from September 2018: Target Holiday Hiring Boost In September, Target announced plans to hire a record 120,000 seasonal workers in 2018, a 20 percent increase over 2017. In our …

LinkUp is excited to announce we now have O*Net defined occupations appended to every one of our 5,000,000 job openings in the LinkUp database.  We have applied these occupations to both current and historical job openings going back to 2007.   …