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Advertiser Watch – UPS, 1-800-Flowers, LaBarge, Wells Fargo, Oracle

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

Every week, WANTED Technologies produces what's called a "Gazelles Report". The Gazelles Report list companies who have triggered a Gazelles alert. A Gazelle alert is triggered when a company has posted significantly more jobs in the past 4 weeks than what we would have expected given its previous behavior in the past year. In our weekly Advertiser Watch feature, we look at 5 companies that showed up in our Gazelles report, mostly focusing on publicly traded companies.

Source: WANTED Gazelles Report

UPS (NYSE:UPS) has shown strong Hiring Demand for Motor Vehicle Operators and Material Moving Workers. In the past 90 days, it has posted 2,043 new jobs on Monster.com (up 2000 job ads), and another 1,434 new job ads on Yahoo! HotJobs – up 1,400. It's hiring is up across all major US metro areas.

Silicon Valley IT Hiring Hits Three-Year Low

By Juli Morris on May 20, 2009 in Computer/Math/IT.

After watching all of the growth in hiring demand experienced since mid 2006 disappear by the end of 2008, online job ads for IT professionals by Silicon Valley companies hit a new three-year low in mid-April.

Source: WANTED Analytics

Since we last reported on Silicon Valley IT hiring a month ago, hiring demand has dropped 16 percent from its first quarter peak in early February. Despite a couple of very slight upticks at the end of April, levels of hiring demand remain below the prior three-year low seen in early January.

While quarterly earnings reports for major tech stocks such as Oracle and Google create some cautious optimism for a rebound, disappointing earnings news from Silicon Valley giant Hewlett-Packard could keep that optimism in check. Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard yesterday estimated a drop in fiscal 2009 earnings of four to five percent and announced that it is planning to eliminate an additional 6,400 workers over the next 12 months due to poor sales numbers for PCs and printers.

Later this week, we will post an update to our Hiring Demand Indicator data for the IT sector. The HDI for IT Occupations presents national year-over-year growth broken down by 6-digit SOC codes, and indicates the occupations within IT that have seen the most severe drop in hiring demand, along with those that are weathering the recession better than average. March HDI data for IT Occupations may be found here.