Every week, WANTED Technologies produces what we call a "Gazelles Report". The Gazelles Report lists companies who's number of online job ads has spiked. We look at the number of jobs posted over the past month, and compare that to what we've seen in the past year. If the number of job ads is significantly different that what we've observed in the past year, that triggers a "Gazelles alert". In our 'Advertiser Watch' feature, we look at 5 companies that show up in our Gazelles report, focusing mostly on publicly traded companies.
Source: WANTED Gazelles Report
JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) has appeared on this feature several times. It's Hiring Demand grew considerably during 2009. In fact, the number of online job ads grew at an average weekly rate of 1.1% before the current seasonal November/December dip. Over the same time period, it's stock price grew 1.8% a week; it's stock is now worth about three times what it was in March. For the week starting December 6th, JP Morgan Chase Hiring Demand doubled, moving from 1,365 to 2,521 new job ads.Graph: JP Morgan Chase Hiring Demand & Stock Price, 4 Years, 4 monthsSource: WANTED Analytics.
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International Business Machines has seen its Hiring Demand grow consistently since the middle of the summer. In fact, IBM is now posting ten times more job ads now than it did five months ago (500 ads compared to 5,200 for the week of December 6th). Its stock price has grown 23% since then.
Graph: IBM Hiring Demand & Stock Price, 4 Years, 4 months
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Hiring at Microsoft Corporation has been growing since March (NASDAQ:MSFT). It has mostly been hiring for "Applications Engineers", but "Marketing Managers" come in an interesting second position, ahead of other IT positions such as "Computer Systems Architects" or even "Computer Systems Analysts". For the week of November 22 2009, Microsoft fell just 5 job postings short of its 4-year Hiring Demand high of 1,017 online job ads.
Graph: Microsoft Corporation Hiring Demand, 4 Years, 4 Months
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Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ:CTAS) appears on our Gazelles report with a spike in Hiring Demand during the week of November 22nd. During that week it posted 635 jobs, 50% more than the week before. According to its website, "Cintas designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs. Cintas operates 390 facilities in the U.S. and Canada, including four manufacturing plants and eight distribution centers that employ more than 30,000 people." Its most advertised-for position is "Wholesale and Manufacturing Sales Representatives", with 665 such online job ads in the past quarter.
Graph: Cintas Corporation Hiring Demand & Stock Price, 4 Years, 4 Months
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Finally, AMCORE Financial (NASDAQ:AMFI) is, according to its website, a "multi-bank holding company with subsidiaries which perform commercial banking operations, credit card services, insurance services, [and] investment banking." It was a top gainer in today's trading by gaining $1.50 (not shown in the graph below which has stock prices at the week's end). It trigerred a Gazelles alert by posting 22% more jobs this month than its one-year historical average. Its stock price seemed to be quite low given the amount of hiring it continued to do after the financial crisis of October 2008.
Graph: AMCORE Financial Hiring Demand & Stock Price, 4 Years, 4 Months
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