US Online Job Postings Decline

Global independent business-membership and research association, The Conference Board, has released figures showing that online job demand was down 66,700 in June 2009.

Online advertised vacancies declined 66,700 to 3,294,800 in June, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series (HWOL).

In the five months since January, online labor demand has dropped a relatively modest 71,000, in sharp contrast to the 1,200,000 decline in the previous five months from August 2008 to January 2009.

“We are not out of the woods yet, but job demand has definitely stabilised since January,” said Gad Levanon, Senior Economist at The Conference Board. “Although there is some bounce in the monthly numbers, the number of online advertised vacancies has held steady in the last three months (up a modest 35,000).

Online advertised vacancies rose in June for the occupational category Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports and were in line with last year’s levels, while Construction and Legal were among the categories that were unchanged in June but well below year ago levels. Labor Demand dipped in June for Sales occupations and several white collar occupational categories including Computer and Mathematical.

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