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Advertiser Watch – ADC Telecommunications, Advance Auto Parts, Sears, Rite Aid, Kforce

By Charles Thibault on July 31, 2009 in Advertiser Watch.

Every week WANTED produces Gazelles Reports. These reports detail companies whose Hiring Demand has spiked or has shown upward trending in the past month. Gazelles can be triggered by climbing Hiring Demand across the entire United States, or can be triggered by spikes in job postings in any of the 23 major Standard Occupational Classification Codes. Media clients can also receive Gazelles centered around a geographic market area. Every week, we review 5 companies who have appeared in the Gazelles report, with a bias towards those that are publicly traded.

Rite Aid (NYSE:RAD), the drug store, has created a Gazelles alert by posting for "First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Retail Sales Workers". It has posted an average of 50 such job per week for the last year. Just in the first three weeks of July it posted 592 of these jobs, or almost 150 per week. The historical point correlation between the 4-week moving summation of new job ads and stock price is 0.65.

Source: WANTED Analytics

Weekly Advertiser Watch: Bank of America; JP Morgan Chase; General Dynamics; Oshkosh Corporation

By Charles Thibault on July 10, 2009 in Advertiser Watch.

In our weekly Advertiser Watch feature, we detail Hiring Demand at the individual company level. Advertiser Watch is triggered by WANTED's Gazelles Report, which detects businesses with upward trends in Hiring Demand. This week, we focus on companies that have previously appeared in this feature, and are also present in this week's Gazelles Report.

Financials have been doing quite well recently – the S&P 500 Financial Sector Index is up 82% since March 6, 2009. Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) has shown an almost fourfold increase in its stock price since the same date. Bank of America has consistently popped up on our weekly Gazelles report, even though Hiring Demand has dropped off a little since last month, possibly signaling the end of bull rally around this stock. Most of Bank of America's Hiring Demand growth has been in core occupations: demand for Tellers, Loan Officers, and Financial Managers has shown steady progression since January 2009.

Weekly Advertiser Watch: AT & T; Oshkosh Corporation; MarineMax; Starwood Hotels & Resorts; Dollar General

By Charles Thibault on July 6, 2009 in Advertiser Watch.

In our weekly feature, we discuss Hiring Demand at the company level. WANTED's weekly Gazelles Report details advertisers whose online recruitment activity has shown significant upward trending in the past 28 days.

AT&T (NYSE: T) has appeared in our weekly Gazelles report for the past three weeks. Spikes in Hiring Demand for AT&T have mostly been concentrated in Sales occupations – it has more than doubled the number of new job ads placed on a weekly basis, moving from an average 2,700 job postings to 6,000 last week.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

Hiring Demand and Stock Price: General Dynamics, eBay, CVS Caremark, Barnes & Noble, Irwin Financial, Am. Superconductor

By Charles Thibault on June 23, 2009 in Advertiser Watch.

In our weekly feature, we discuss Hiring Demand for individual companies. WANTED's weekly Gazelles Report details advertisers whose online recruitment activity has shown significant upward trending in the past 28 days.

General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD) has made a third consecutive weekly appearance in the Gazelles Report. General Dynamics Corporation stock is up 66% since March 9, 2009.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

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Advertiser Watch: General Dynamics; Bank of America; Avon Products; Dr.Pepper Snapple Group; US Army

By Charles Thibault on June 3, 2009 in Advertiser Watch.

Several companies are expanding their workforce, despite the ongoing recession. In a weekly feature, we discuss five companies whose recent online job advertising has spiked, courtesy of the WANTED Gazelles™ report, which uses proprietary data mining algorithms to detect sudden shifts in online recruitment advertising.

General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has increased its number of IT job postings by 63% in the past month. It posted over 3,900 new IT job ads in April, compared to 2,500 for March. General Dynamics has continued strong activity over the past three weeks as well, posting 2,200 jobs just last week. This uptick in IT job listings is also supported by increases in both the number of Management and Engineering job listings, although the volume for these two occupations is in the 700 range. Most of the jobs are located in the Washington, DC area, and most General Dynamics job postings have recently been seen on CareerJournal and JobServe. General Dynamics stock is up 70% since the 52 week low in early March of this year.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0