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 …
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, …
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 …
Rochelle Tishuk
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 …
Toby Dayton
In discussing the decision this week to raise rates as most people expected, Fed Chair Jerome Powell stated that the U.S. economy was experiencing ‘a particularly bright moment’ and the Fed described economic conditions as ‘strong.’ Even with the …
Rochelle Tishuk
The Information sector contains some of the hottest businesses right now such as Facebook, Twitter, Disney, and the newly formed government contractor, Perspecta, Inc. Therefore, we thought we would analyze job openings in this hot industry for this month’s Monthly …
Given the accuracy of our non-farm payrolls forecast last month and the fact that we’ve finally clawed our way back up to our 5-year historical batting average, we’ll continue the somewhat narcissistic and highly self-serving theme we started last month …
Meg Slindee
The health of a job market is best measured by considering multiple factors, including unemployment rate, labor force participation rate, wage growth, and more. New to this list of measures is LinkUp’s Job Market Diversification score, a figure assessing market …
Having just recently traversed the halfway point of the year, I thought it would be a good time to look at our YTD NFP forecasting results and assign ourselves a mid-term grade. Luckily, with our forecast last month for stronger …
