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 …
Jobs Reports & Forecasts
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. …
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 …
Total U.S. job openings on company websites globally rose 5.4% with both new and removed job openings jumping 16.9% and 23.5% respectively. An increase of over 5% in total job openings, which points to continued growth in labor demand across …
Monthly Jobs Recap: February 2022
Nic Gustafson
With February ending on a more somber note than any of us anticipated, our hearts are with the people of Ukraine. While ‘business as usual’ has felt a misnomer for quite some time, it feels even stranger now amid the …
There is no way to begin this month’s post other than noting that as the situation continues to unfold in Ukraine, with the near certainty that it will get worse in the days and weeks ahead, our thoughts and hearts …
January Jobs Recap: Holding steady amid the surge
Nic Gustafson
For the first month of 2022, active job listings in the U.S. were, for the most part in a somewhat steady holding pattern, up just 0.3% over December. When we drill down to the occupation level we see some hidden …
NEW: Insights from our Q4 Economic Indicators Report
Nic Gustafson
As we wrap the first month of 2022, we also examine the job market data to see what it had to say about the close of 2021. In the Q4 edition of our Economic Indicators Report, we saw the first …