Data blog

Halloween is right around the corner so we took a look at hiring across popular U.S. candy manufacturers: Hershey, Mars, Nestle, and See’s Candies. Nestle is by far the leader in job openings in the U.S. with a 60% share …

Part of Amazon’s remarkable influence stems from the sheer variety of its business lines and the way it touches our everyday lives. We thought it would be interesting to see the share of job openings for each of Amazon’s business …

Since the U.S. recovery began in 2009, total employment has risen from 138 million to 155.6 million and the number of unemployed has shrunk to 6.6 million. Strong economic conditions have put millions of people back to work, and economists agree that the US …

Online gambling has taken over the global betting market, generating £4.7 billion in 2017 in the UK alone. So who is hiring in this industry and where?  According to the LinkUp job openings database, GVC Holdings, which acquired Ladbrokes in …

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 …