Employment markets have changed a lot since Covid-19 entered the world. Millions of people lost their jobs on short notice. For big, public companies this is often major news. For private companies, the trauma is no less real but often …
Job Market Data
Recent earning reports have revealed retailers are facing higher costs, and stocks are dropping. Labor and transportation costs are on the rise, and companies are likely to pass on increasing costs to consumers. We took a look at our job …
Hiring Freezes: Public vs. Private
Nic Gustafson
Over the past few weeks, there have been several notable hiring freezes and layoffs announced at publicly traded companies. Big brand names like Carvana, Facebook, and Twitter, are making big hiring changes. Recent macro events, including increasing interest rates, inflation, …
A month of decline After the four previous months of slow, yet steady job listings growth, April jobs data shows employers are removing job postings and putting a pause on recruitment. With the uncertainty in the economy and increased interest …
Autonomous vehicles job market race heats up
Siying Liu
Tesla, the world’s most famous electric vehicle giant, reported its first-quarter performance on April 20th, with impressive margins and increasing sales. The company detailed revenues of $18.76 billion and $2.86 in earnings per share, up from $10.389 billion in revenue …
Did the hot job market stop?
Siying Liu
Last week, employers added 524k job postings and deleted 584k job postings, resulting in a total job count of roughly 4.6M, down 1.2% from two weeks ago. The states with the most unique active jobs last week: California (489K), Texas …
One of the stranger aspects of now-casting predictive job market data occurs when there are differing narratives in a given moment between backward-looking, survey-based, publicly reported government jobs data and our forward-looking labor demand data sourced directly from company websites. …
NVIDIA jobs jump too
Brenda Dahlheimer
Investors are closely watching, and noticed Nvidia (NVDA) stock jump yesterday, outperforming competitors. A signal that optimism is returning to the chip market. While there may have been no company-specific news per say yesterday, it is no secret that Nvidia …
Released: Q1 Economic Indicators Report
Nic Gustafson
In the Q1 2022 edition of our quarterly Economic Indicators Report, we see accelerating job listing growth, growth across all industries, and increased job duration. Overall active job listings in Q1 were up 3.7% compared to Q4. In Q1, duration …
Monthly Jobs Recap: March 2022
Nic Gustafson
With more job listings across the majority of areas, occupations, and industries last month, the first quarter of 2022 in the U.S. ended on a green note. Active job listings grew by 3.7% in March, a higher rate of growth …