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Fortune 1000 Hiring Increases 1.8% in August

By Charles Thibault on September 16, 2009 in Fortune 1000.

Fortune 1000 companies increased their online job ads by 1.8% in August when looking at the four major national paid-for job boards (Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, and Dice), according to WANTED's Fortune 1000 Recruitment Advertising Report.

Last month, Hiring was up 4.4% for the Fortune 1000.

Hiring Demand is still down 40.1% on these job boards compared to last year. Last month, however, Hiring Demand was down 41.9% on a year-over-year basis. This relative improvement of 1.8% controls for seasonal fluctuations.

Increases in Hiring Demand were led by companies such as AT&T (NYSE:T), which we have featured several times on our weekly Advertiser Watch feature.

Source: WANTED Analytics

Weekly Advertiser Watch – AT&T, Blackboard, Airgas, Nike, Johnson Controls

By Charles Thibault on September 4, 2009 in Employer Watch.

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.

Source: WANTED Analytics

Weekly Advertiser Watch – Booz Allen Hamilton; Hewlett-Packard; Starbucks; HMSHost; AT&T; Barnes & Noble; General Dynamics; JPMorgan Chase

By Charles Thibault on July 24, 2009 in Employer Watch.

Every week, WANTED Technologies Corporation produces a Gazelles Report. The Gazelles Report details the activity of companies who's Hiring Demand has spiked or shown upward trending. In a weekly feature, we look closer at several companies.

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), the computer and electronic goods manufacture, has appeared on our Gazelles report for the past 4 weeks running. Its stock price has appreciated 52% since March 9th, 2009. Geographically speaking, Hiring Demand at HP has spiked in the Washington, DC metro area, as well as in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA. The number of job ads in the San Jose area has doubled since April. Hiring Demand has increased for all three of its top occupations. The number of job ads has more than doubled since April for all three main Computer Occupations it is hiring for.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) has triggered a Gazelles alert by showing strong demand for "Management Occupations". Hiring Demand Indicators are well suited for large, sprawling corporations with thousands of employees. Since Hiring Demand is spread out across many many small locations, the aggregate activity of individual locations – without their knowing what other locations are doing – can be reflective of the overall corporate outlook.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

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

By Charles Thibault on July 6, 2009 in Employer 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