WANTED's forecast for Health Care employment in September shows a gain of 29,200 jobs, the largest monthly gain since December 2008. WANTED Technologies' Hiring Demand Indicator (the yellow line in the chart below) for Health Care showed a slight decrease in September.
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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 from -15 percent to -16 percent. Hiring Demand for Health Care reached its three-year peak in June 2007, prior to the onset of the recession in December 2007, and moved steadily downward until reaching a bottom in the first quarter of 2009. Following a gain of 10 percent in June, Hiring Demand in this sector has remained flat.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its Preliminary September Estimate for the Health Care sector as part of its Employment Situation report on Friday, October 2, at 8:30 AM.
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