Job Listings Report

In an effort to monitor the job market, many large-scale career search engines keep track of where job seekers are looking for new employment and how many job listings are posted online. Aside from being a good idea for the company’s own books, this also gives insight into the levels of supply and demand in the workforce.

Recently Simply Hired released a copy of their First Quarter Job Trends report, in which the company outlined job trends by geography, industry and demand amongst job seekers.

For starters, the report showed an increased in the number of job seekers looking for work in several metro areas. This makes complete sense, considering that he U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an increase in unemployment from 8.1 percent to 8.5 percent during the month of March. According to Simply Hired, the number of job seekers in Chicago during the first quarter of this year jumped 15 percent. Boston saw a 17 percent increase in the number of people using the Simply Hired network to find work, as did Milwaukee and Washington, D.C.

Simply Hired also found that the most competitive job listings listed on their web page were for the following; management, graphic design, financial analysis, staff accounting and business analysis. The lease competitive listings were for sales associate positions, sales representatives and dental assistants.

“Simply Hired is seeing some very encouraging trends among our active job listings, including an uptick in finance and accounting jobs,” said Simply Hired’s CEO Gautam Godhwani. “Because factors such as the recent tax season may have contributed to the five percent increase in accountant positions, Simply Hired plans to track this information in the Q2 2009 job trends report where we’ll futher examine active job listings and some of the environmental factors that may have caused them.”

On top of this, Simply Hired found that some of the most active job listings included such keywords as “part-time”, “sales”, “accou....

The report also showed that available jobs in Washington, D.C. increased by 14 percent, while Boston and San Diego saw a 5 percent increase. Some of the most active job listings in these areas included health diagnosis and treatment practitioners, sales representatives and engineers. Positions for truck drivers, sales representatives and business analysts become more available, rising 45 percent, 12 percent and 8 percent in that order. During the same time jobs for cashiers and administrative assistants dropped by 5 percent and 3 percent respectively.