Data blog

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 …

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 …

Habitat for Humanity is a global nonprofit housing organization working in local communities across all 50 states in the U.S. and in approximately 70 countries. For the past 16 years LinkUp has been proud to volunteer with Habitat’s Entrepreneurs House. Not …

LinkUp’s job listing data provides incredible insights into the U.S. labor market at all levels, but layering with additional external data sets such as salary, provides an even richer picture. Our data team recently compared salary data for Software Developer, …

  Before everyone rushes to get out of the office and onto the road for wherever the backyard barbecue is tomorrow, we thought we’d chart the relative job growth for 3 companies that will be featured quite prominently throughout the …

With the recent launch of The LinkUp 10,000 that we’re still incorporating into our models and ongoing work and correlation analysis around the last few components of our Macro Job Market Data package that will be released in July, combined …

Despite the continued good news about low unemployment and increased job openings, not all industries are on a hiring spree. LinkUp can sort its job listings by industry and then compare long-term growth vs. short-term momentum to see which industries …

In nature, more biodiversity means more life. In a healthy ecosystem, all species have a role and those roles support each other, whether directly or indirectly. Coral reefs are the perfect example. Occupying less than one percent of the ocean floor, coral …

LinkUp recently took a look at Applicant Tracking System (ATS) usage across LinkUp’s unique dataset of 5 million jobs from 50,000 company websites to understand distribution across the ATS marketplace. We identified nearly 150 ATSs currently in use, and analyzed …