Today's preliminary BLS report indicates that the health care industry continues to add jobs, although at a relatively modest rate compared to growth rates in recent years. According to the BLS' Employment Situation, the health care sector gained 20,800 jobs in June. WANTED Technologies' Hiring Demand Indicator (the yellow line in the chart below) for Health Care showed no increase in June.
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The Health Care Hiring Demand Indicator–a measure of year-over-year change in online job advertising–is flat this month, after a strong uptick from -27 percent in April to -17 percent in May. The trend in Hiring Demand in Health Care had been moving steadily downward from a peak it reached in June 2007 prior to the onset of the recession in December 2007, reaching a bottom which appeared to occur in the first quarter of the year.
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