Labor Market

While the longest government shutdown in history was estimated to cost the economy $3 billion, our January data shows it has had little to no impact on job openings. Government job openings were flat between December and January, and the Bureau of …

With the clock ticking to get our non-farm payroll (NFP) forecast published before tomorrow’s jobs report, I’m forced to keep the commentary brief. While perhaps fortunate for readers, it’s a bit frustrating given the crazy level of fear, uncertainty, and …

It’s abundantly clear from our jobs data that job growth across the U.S. during 2018 was disproportionately concentrated in western and mountain states. Digging deeper, it appears this was largely driven by job growth in two major sectors: Construction and Health Care (because where …

By almost every measure, the U.S. labor market vastly exceeded everyone’s expectations in 2018, including our own. Reversing what was largely seen as an incontrovertible continuation of the 3-year decline from a peak of 3.1 million jobs added in 2014, …

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 …