WANTED's forecast for Health Care employment in August shows a gain of 31,900 jobs, the largest monthly gain since December 2008. WANTED Technologies' Hiring Demand Indicator (the yellow line in the chart below) for Health Care showed no increase in August.
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The Health Care Hiring Demand Indicator–a measure of year-over-year change in online job advertising–dropped slightly this month, after a small uptick from -17 percent in June to -14 percent in July. 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.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its Preliminary August Estimate for the Health Care sector as part of its Employment Situation report on Friday, September 4th, at 8:30 AM.
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