Every day, WANTED's web spiders crawl through employment websites capturing job ads. Our proprietary technology removes duplicates, standardizes critical analytical components, and appends established third party data elements. By mining the 4+ years of data accessible through Analytics 2.0, WANTED can detect when companies show 'abnormal' changes in their recruitment patterns. The WANTED Gazelles Report specifically focuses on companies who's Hiring Demand has spiked. Every week, we feature five companies appearing in this report, with a bias towards towards those that are publicly traded.
AT&T (NYSE:T) has triggered Gazelles alerts in several US markets, including Portland, Seattle, Sacramento, and St.Louis, all generated by an increase in Hiring Demand for 'Retail Sales Workers'. The number of new AT&T jobs has been climbing steadily since March. AT&T posted 3,375 jobs on Yahoo! HotJobs in August, whereas it only posted 375 ads on HotJobs last year at the same time. AT&T stock has not followed suit, however – share prices have been flat since March.
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According to its website, Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI) "provides innovative automotive interiors that help make driving more comfortable, safe and enjoyable. For buildings, it offers products and services that optimize energy use and improve comfort and security." It triggered a Gazelles alert by posting more than 900 jobs on MEPatWork two weeks ago. MEPatWork is an employment site specialized in the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing industries. The historical correlation between the number of job ads and Johnson Controls stock price is 0.59. Johnson Controls stock is up 200% since the market rally started on March 9, 2009.
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Airgas is the United States' largest distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related equipment. Airgas (NYSE:ARG) triggered a gazelles alert by quintupling its Hiring Demand over the past month, from an average 25 job ads a week to 123 last week. Airgas stock gained 0.8% in today's trading, and the historical correlation between Airgas job ads and its stock price is 0.44.
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Nike (NYSE:NKE) showed up on our national Gazelles report by posting three times as many jobs (128) than its average since the start of the year (35 job ads per week). The historical correlation between Nike stock price and the count of its job ads is 0.46.
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Finally, Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBB), a consulting shop specialized in the education industry, posted 37 jobs on Yahoo! HotJobs last week, tripling its overall level of Hiring Demand. The most significant job ads are the 9 posted for Marketing Managers – Blackboard had no such postings last year. The 3-year correlation between Blackboard job ads and its stock price is 0.33.
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