Job Market Data

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 …

Halloween is right around the corner so we took a look at hiring across popular U.S. candy manufacturers: Hershey, Mars, Nestle, and See’s Candies. Nestle is by far the leader in job openings in the U.S. with a 60% share …

Part of Amazon’s remarkable influence stems from the sheer variety of its business lines and the way it touches our everyday lives. We thought it would be interesting to see the share of job openings for each of Amazon’s business …

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 …