Last month, staffing firms posted nearly 450,000 new online job ads. The Top 25 staffing firms by ad volume for May 2010 are listed below, along with the percentage change from April:
Health care jobs continue to lead the pack. There were over 138,000 job postings by staffing firms for the Health Care sector, followed by nearly 93,000 in Computer and Mathematical Occupations. Office and Administrative Support jobs were a distant third at just under 37,000.
Hiring Demand improved 2.4% in July on a seasonally adjusted basis. There were 132,000 more new job ads in July, which now total 1,433,000.
With the exception of a three week period in June, Hiring Demand has been growing an average of 0.8% a week since March, or 3.6% a month for the past 4 months. This corresponds to the rally in the stock markets.
Improvements are spread across most sectors of the US economy. Seven of the top eight Metropolitan Areas improved, as did 19 of 23 broad Occupational groups covered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Four weeks ago, Hiring Demand was down 29.5% on a year-over-year basis. Hiring Demand is now down only 27.1% compared to last year. This relative improvement of 2.4% controls for seasonal fluctuations.
Source: WANTED Analytics
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