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Weekly Advertiser Watch – Macy's, Radio One, Skyworks Solutions, Brightpoint, TTM Technologies

By Charles Thibault on November 6, 2009 in Employer Watch.

Every day, WANTED's web spiders crawl through employment websites, capturing new job ads. Our proprietary technology removes duplicates, normalizes critical analytical components, appends established third party data elements, and organizes the lot in a robust data warehouse.

By mining the 4-plus years of data accessible through Analytics 2.0 and using statistical techniques, WANTED can detect when companies increase their  level of Hiring Demand – a "Gazelles alert". Every week, we produce a "Gazelles Report" which lists and details company's with spikes or upward trends in their levels of online recruitment advertising.

Below a sample of what our Gazelle Report looks like, for the 5 publicly traded companies we feature this week:

Source: WANTED Analytics

Source: WANTED Analytics

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Weekly Advertiser Watch – Morgan Stanley, Hewlett-Packard, KForce, Macy's, Amazon.com

By Charles Thibault on October 2, 2009 in Employer Watch.

Every day, WANTED's web spiders crawl through employment websites, capturing new job ads. Our proprietary technology removes duplicates, normalizes critical analytical components, appends established third party data elements, and organizes the lot in a robust data warehouse.

By mining the 4+ years of data accessible through Analytics 2.0, WANTED can detect when companies increase their Hiring Demand. The WANTED Gazelles Report specifically focuses on these companies. Every week, we feature five companies appearing in the Gazelles Report.

Morgan Stanley's job postings for Financial Specialists, and for Personal Financial Advisors in particular, has triggered a Gazelles alert (NYSE:MS).  Morgan Stanley Private Equity owns the Learning Care Group, which is why so many Education positions are being advertised for.

Source: WANTED Analytics

Source: WANTED Analytics

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Fortune 1000 Hiring Demand Remains Flat

By Charles Thibault on July 20, 2009 in Fortune 1000.

Hiring Demand by Fortune 1000 companies remained consistent with the prior month, according to data from WANTED's Fortune 1000 report. WANTED's report measures new job ads for America's largest corporations. A month ago, the Fortune 1000 showed a year-over-year drop of 24.6% in Hiring Demand.

247 of the 1000 largest US corporations showed improvements in Hiring Demand, unchanged since last month.

On a Sector basis:

- Hiring Demand of "Wholesale Trade" companies (NAICS 42) is up by thirty-seven percentage points, posting a 24% year-over-year increase compared to last month's year-over-year drop of 13.2%.

- Health Care is the only sector to show consistent and robust growth in Hiring Demand.  Health Care sector Hiring Demand is up 26.8% compared to last year.  Last month, Hiring Demand was up 34.6% on a year-over-year basis.

- Hiring Demand of "Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services" companies (NAICS 54) dropped by twenty percentage points, going from -13.2% to -33.9% on a year-over-year basis.

The following table summarizes the sector highlights:

Source: WANTED Fortune 1000 Report

Source: WANTED Fortune 1000 Report

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