Labor Market

In a recent analysis of Health Care listings, we found there were just over 492,000 openings in the Health Care and Social Assistance Sector in the U.S in September, 2018. This was down over 80,000 job openings from the previous …

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.   …

  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 …

We at LinkUp are excited to announce a major enhancement to our job market data solutions. We have applied the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) classification system to all current and historical job openings in our database.  The O*NET system features …

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 …

“It takes a village” is a saying uttered by parents frequently, because they know it takes far more than just mom and dad to raise a child. It takes the help of family, friends, neighbors and more to help a …

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 …

There is much discussion in the press about the Trump administration’s new tariffs on steel and aluminum. While perspectives vary on the positive and negative impacts, one thing everyone seems to agree on is that there are always winners and …